Although I am very adamant about maintaining the pristine beauty of our environment and serenity of the co-habitants with humans, I feel we need to explore the vast oil reserves and start drilling offshore in the United States. Until some other technological advancement allows for free and renewable sources of energy, the United States must remove itself from the tentacles of foreign oil.
I recently read a news article about Nigerian ‘Militants Attach Shell’s Bonga Field‘ via [http://allafrica.com/stories/200806200003.html]. I do not understand how a company like Shell could continue its operation on foreign lands, disenfranchise the Nigerian citizens to sheer poverty and allow kidnappers of workers at the oil rig site(s) to risk their lives. In one of my previous blogs, I did mention how Filipinos were being kidnapped for ransom, too. I don’t like what has become of the oil industry and their cahoots with international investment bankers.
Anyway, I would prefer to see more Filipinos come over to the United States and work at the oil drilling rigs rather than sweltering under the heat of the desert sun of Saudi Arabia. I know the Middle Eastern countries has offered work for citizens of third world countries, like the Philippines, but there comes a time when risking one’s live for meager wages is not warranted anymore. Change must be implemented now.
Change is possible as well as profitable. I see business ventures and tax incentives for the recycling and cleaning up after oil spills from petroleum tankers, smoke stacks from factories and chemicals spewed from the behinds of automobiles and aircrafts alike.
Change means to pay off the trillions of dollars in debt; caused by the many ‘wrong-doings’ under the Bush administration. The United States and its citizens are short changing its future generation by not making use of its petroleum. Perhaps, we should try nuclear fuel instead but we know the effects of radiation poisoning are deadly to all living things on this planet.
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