Obama energy plan would open Atlantic and Gulf drilling

Today President Barack Obama Presented plans that show interest in drilling off the Atlantic shore and in the Gulf of Mexico. This plan will impress the energy industry but will upset the environmentalists. The plan would include a 20-year ban on drilling of the Virginia coastline. Parts of Alaska however could be used for drilling sites. Drilling would occur more than 125 miles off the coast of Florida. He has given this issue much thought but in the end he decided that t would improve our economy and reduce our dependency on precious foreign oil on which we heavy depend on today.

I think that this plan definitely has a lot of positives but also a lot of negatives that are mostly environmental. It would save the U.S a lot of money by not depending so much on foreign countries and it would get our nose out of their business and maybe we could leave the middle east alone and worry about ourselves for once. But i also think that it disturbs natural beauty in Alaska and we don't want to risk another disaster with oil spills and such. I think that the price of gas would go way down in America but our taxes would probably go up a tad to pay for all the oil rigs being put up.

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