Are We Making the Right Choice?

Author's Note: I think that drilling in Alaska would be a very bad idea because of the pros and cons. There are some pros but there are a lot more cons. If it were up to me, there wouldn't even be a debate about this. I would say, NO WAY, to drilling the first time that it is mentioned. But it isn't up to me. (So if you would like to focus on my amazing vocabulary, that would be great.)

Drilling in Alaska sounds harmful and dangerous. I think that they should not drill. First of all, they are harming the wildlife, and second of all there are a lot of electric cars now so. Even though there are lots of harms, there are a lot of benefits as well. One of the benefits would be to drilling is that if they find a lot of oil, the oil prices would go down. Throughout all of the information that was brought upon me, I think that we should not drill in Alaska's wildlife.

The money issues are a huge deal in the oil industries. One of the money issues is the price to drill. According to,  http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071108160817AAOTWhj, the price of a new oil rig would be $10 million dollars. Personally, I think that is too much for a drill. If it were up to you, would you pay that much for a drill? Even if the drill was high powered and it wasn't supposed create pollution, it is still a bad idea for danger purposes. Did you know that the drill weighs more than 3 elephants combined? Well, you do now. Through and through, the drills are very expensive and the cost of paying for all the jobs, would be over 12 million dollars.

Even though money is an important issue there is another issue. It is the people who are protesting against the drilling. There are a lot of people on board with the drilling, but there are even more people against it. It would be important to stop drilling for a while(Or until the economy gets better). When the oil runs out, what will we do? Ride bikes everywhere? Wouldn't it be better to buy an electric car? They are fuel efficient and they don't cost too much.

Though the people are important, the environment, is more important. The animals and their habitats. In the future, if the U.S.A. wants to be the most green in the world, then we can't use heavy materials like drills and bull dozers to ruin the habitat that animals and humans live in. Even though Alaska doesn’t have that many people, they are destroying the habitat for animals and other wildlife.

In Alaska there aren't many people, but that doesn't mean that the wildlife has to suffer or the environment has to be polluted. We can keep our country clean and safe if we all just stick to what we believe in and not pollute areas just to make more pollution in other more populated areas. We should protect the environment and not destroy the places we all know and love.