Locky Stewart, Federal Field Associate with Environment North Carolina, talks with Bill on drilling for oil, its impact on the environment, basically providing a counter point to the idea of increased drilling.
Locky Stewart had a lot of good points in that discussion. It sounds like in some areas we would be trading jobs in tourism for jobs in construction. So how many new jobs would we actually get? That combined with the delay in time before we could actually make use of the oil in the shelf (15 years). If we invested the same amount of resources in that time to develop green energy I think that would but America ahead of other countries and out of this energy crisis. Because eventually whether we drill or not we will at some point come to a place Again where our oil resources are low and we have to look at developing green energy. Lets do it now. I think this is a decision that future Americans will be grateful for. Something our children will be grateful for even if we have to go through difficult summers to bring it to them. America has pulled together over times more difficult than this in the past and this cause (our future) is just as worthy.
Locky Stewart had a lot of good points in that discussion. It sounds like in some areas we would be trading jobs in tourism for jobs in construction. So how many new jobs would we actually get? That combined with the delay in time before we could actually make use of the oil in the shelf (15 years). If we invested the same amount of resources in that time to develop green energy I think that would but America ahead of other countries and out of this energy crisis. Because eventually whether we drill or not we will at some point come to a place Again where our oil resources are low and we have to look at developing green energy. Lets do it now. I think this is a decision that future Americans will be grateful for. Something our children will be grateful for even if we have to go through difficult summers to bring it to them. America has pulled together over times more difficult than this in the past and this cause (our future) is just as worthy.
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