Your argument is missing one important factor, POLLUTION!!!
Hi James,
Your argument fails to consider one important by product of drilling, Pollution. New oil and gas drilling techniques pump large quantities of toxic substances into the ground under high pressure, fracking. This process has the potential to pollute the countries water sources. There are several locations in PA and Wyoming where water has been rendered undrinkable. I am not against developing our energy resources, but only after the necessary precautions have been taken. Drillers must be bonded, preventing them from extracting the profit and then leaving the tax payer with the clean up. Having grown up in western PA I have seen firsthand what the last energy boom did to the idyllic landscape: Giant holes in the ground, polluted streams and lakes, and large tracks of land that don't support plant growth.
America needs a two pronged approach to energy: 1. CONSERVATION 2. Development of new energy sources, renewable and oil and gas.
Complex problems require complex solutions; if anyone tells you differently they are misinformed or lying.
