To Drill or Not to Drill

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To Drill or Not to Drill

Critical and Creative Thinking

5-26-2011

Kristi Coulter

Axia College of University of Phoenix

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When researching drilling and foreign dependency on oil I have

discovered this is something I care strongly about. I do not want to have our

country dependant upon oil from other countries. If we as a country end our

dependence on foreign oil, the money would go to American businesses and not

to foreign companies. With the money we would be creating careers, money to

pay salaries, and buy mostly domestic goods. According to USA Today “Had the

US been energy independent, the cash flow that helped create the housing crisis

would not have occurred and, consequently there never would have been a crisis

to begin with. We as a country are spending $1 billion a day overseas in foreign

oil. These are funds our country could really use at home.

The reliance we have on these countries for their oil has caused them to

be placed on the State Department’s Travel Warning List. There are ten

countries on this list. The countries are: Algeria, Chad, Columbia, Democratic

Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and

Syria. These countries are said to be dangerous and unstable.

When I look at the opposing view I do understand where the people on the

opposite side are coming from. However, at the same time I do understand how

important it is to create jobs and revenue within our own country. There are many

people today without any jobs. By bringing oil to our own country we could

employ many of those who are unemployed now. Sure making more green

energy will cost an extreme amount of money, but it will pay off in the end. We

will have preserved the earth and created jobs as well as revenue. None of this

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can be done if we have foreign oil dependency.

When there is a subject that I respond strongly to such as this one, I can...