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I agree with everything up to the last statement after the ellipsis. There is economic justification for risking environmental damage. More offshore drilling =
by tkahn6 16y ago
I agree with everything up to the last statement after the ellipsis.
There is economic justification for risking environmental damage. More offshore drilling = cheaper oil; More offshore drilling = more jobs (to name a couple).
I don't think this is a simple issue. The debate is a valid one.
Nuclear energy is dangerous but we do it anyway and similarly, it's not like all of a sudden deep water oil rigs are going to start failing left and right; statistically that is highly improbable.
- grandalf 16y agoIt's not fair to compare oil to nuclear. Nuclear offers so many cost advantages, while adding some oil wells in American waters only minimally impacts the price of oil. Jobs should never be a justification for anything (if job creation is the goal, simply banning the combines that harvest corn would create tens of thousands of field worker jobs). Deep water oil rigs will fail and when they do untold environmental damage will be wrought. We simply can't control the ocean's currents or seismic events. There is absolutely no reason that a first world nation should settle for offshore drilling and the environmental impacts/risks it creates.