It'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 pric

It'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.