Scribbles of An Ape

    In the article Us to Open Areas to Offshore Drilling by John M Broder the topic of oil drilling offshore is heavily debated. Environmentalists couldn't be more against this plan while the oil industries are jumping the gun to make this happen. When choosing the offshore drilling there are many factors that need to be thoroughly considered in order to make that decision. You should evaluate the oil spill of 2010, the costs to open up these sites, and whether or not this action is beneficial to the United states. First really realize the prior accident of offshore drilling.
    In the oil spill of 2010 things were horrific.Oil was everywhere and even the animals were being harmed. Obviously something had gone with the procedure of storing this oil and things got bad really quickly. When you analyze this situation you begin to realize that maybe offshore drilling is actually quite bad. At the same time you must realize that in the article itself it does say that there will be no such thing as no risk oil drilling. Accidents can and do happen just as displayed in the oil spill of 2010. With this being stated you as the reader should realize that no matter what happens oil spills are happening all around the world so the US isn't going to be alone. Rather than not going along with it you should accept the fact that there will be this kind of danger everywhere. Once you begin to except that oil spills are apart of life then you'll wonder about costs of opening up a drilling site.
    Now that you are wondering about the costs you may be thinking how high or how low. Although the prices of offshore drilling is not specified we all expect it to be a pretty penny. Though it may be a chunk of change it will be worth it in the long run. Just think of the United States being self-sufficient. We wouldn't have to pay as much for the gas to fill our tanks. We also wouldn't have to worry about importing as much oil as we do now. If we start opening up offshore drilling sites we can create more jobs in this poor economy. The economy would benefit from this and so would we. Next is the most important factor of all being whether offshore drilling is really beneficial.
    Oil drilling is absolutely beneficial given most of the examples above. Especially for the fact that we as Americans need to be more dependent on ourselves for oil. In the Pros/Cons of Offshore Oil Drilling wrtiten by a blogger named Mark Hutcherson who writes about daily news says "the United States needs to produce more of our own crude oil, so we are not so dependent on foreign imports".(Hutcherson) This statement in fact is so true. I could guarantee that if you asked many Americans where you could produce oil from in the United States they wouldn't even know where to answer. Then they would probably say someone where in the Middle East and ignore the state question. In realizing this you see that oil drilling is really beneficial. Especially if it will help lower gas prices because we desperately need that in the United States.