Sunday, March 18, 2012

ANWR, Drilling?

Author’s Note: Document Based Questioning, Should the United States Drill for Oil in Alaska’s Wilderness?  That’s the question, for Social Studies we were asked to write an essay revolving around.  In seventh grade we are to perform a smaller form of the eighth graders DBQ, that’ll prepare us for High School.  With research to back up my opinion here’s what I came up with.

Should the United States drill for oil in one of the major sanctuaries for arctic animals?  In one simple word my judgment could be explained; NO!  The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which is the dominant place they have thought to drill in, is 1.5 million-acres for arctic nature to live his or her life cycle.  The citizens had an idea for the ANWR to perhaps be a vicinity to lower our gas prices. This mentioning will only cause dreadful cons in the near future.  It shall not be destroyed, is what all the research that I’ve gathered proves, but there are recommendations on the other side of our debate.  Drilling for oil in the ANWR is horrible advice to our country in my opinion, but it’s only a suggestion, there are additional alternatives.

There are so many ways the Alaskan environment could easily be affected by the United States drilling for oil.  Drilling in these areas would spoil the fragile environment and potentially kill many species of life. The national parks would lose their beauty and be unavailable for use by the general public, fi.edu stated.  This con fit very well with what’s going through my mind.   What’s not going through my mind properly is why our scheme was to drill, it will just build waste of additional oil because in the close years to come the United States will have invented electric cars. Electric cars will help Alaska of all the states the finest because, it’s the largest state.  If we do need extra oil in case electric cars take longer than expected to be designed, we can make substitutes.  That’s what lake.k12.fl.us suggests. Maybe find a new area to drill from.  Why drill in Alaska, why not China, it’s larger than Alaska and would supply more oil?  Or another backup would be to discover a technique to save oil.  

My secondary topic is the economy, if you assume the atmosphere isn’t going to deal well with the drilling, consider the cost-cutting measure. Why does everybody assume that the drilling will make us more money?  I would furthermore like to bring to your awareness, tourist will no longer be fond of vacationing to this state.  I also imagined an estimation of the cost to travel the machinery up to Alaska to drill.  That’s nuts.  Machinery is transported a big number of times to make gas prices go down but, this is diverse.  “Gas prices will go down [if the United States drills in Alaska]” a website I visited quoted.  The other websites that I’ve visited brought up a point of, gas and tax prices will only rise further in undersized years to help manufacture the environment to how it was originally.

Finally, the economy won’t be the only thing affected by the drilling so will the safety, which is the most important in my head.  The native’s critters, plants, and even the Alaskans could have a very likely chance to be injured by the drilling.  Emotionally and psychically, it can harm their hearts.  Not being able to get up with the sight of gorgeous doe in their backyards, could end in emotional harm to the hearts.  Kids can have an even harder time with breathing than adults because their lungs have yet to develop completely which would cause physical damage to their hearts.  I have a idea to avoid the harm.  In China, which I brought up before, the descent is spread further than Americans across the country.  To help safety of harass toward their country, moving closer to each other could assist making that a dream come true.  With the parts of villages not being occupied, they could drill from to get the oil we are in need of.

There are additional alternatives, instead of the horrible advice given to our country of drilling for oil in the ANWR.  Environment, economy, and safety concerns are highly like to erupt.  Choosing a side to consent with wasn’t difficult for me.  The government is able to take my recommendation any day.  

Sources:

·         "BalancedPolitics.org - ANWR Oil Drilling (Pros & Cons, Arguments For and Against, Advantages & Disadvantages)." BalancedPolitics.org - Free Balanced, Non-Partisan Discussion of Political & Social Issues for Debate (Pros and Cons - Decision Making Politics). N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Mar. 2012. <http://www.balancedpolitics.org/anwr_drilling.htm>.
·         "The Secret Lives of Energy - The Energy Problem - Discussion Topics." The Franklin Institute - Home - 215.448.1200 . N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Mar. 2012. <http://www.fi.edu/guide/hughes/topic3.html>.
·         "Should the United States Drill for Oil in Alaksa's Wilderness?." Should the United States Drill for Oil in Alaksa's Wilderness?. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Mar. 2012. <http://lake.k12.fl.us/16722057105751950/lib/16722057105751950/_files/Alaskan_Oil-Student_Packet.pdf>.