Sunday, November 4, 2012

Oil Rush helps the economy

Source: Opposing viewpoints in context
Reliability: Since it is on a database, i would consider the information that i gained very accurate and useful for my passion project.  Article was created in the summer of this year so the information is really present and accurate.

        Recent findings in North and South Dakota have put families and business's in a mad scramble to set claim to the recent super giant oil reserves.  I kid you not that it has come to the point that there are not enough construction crews to build homes and apartments complexes for the oil rush workers.  We are seeing what is equivalent to the California gold rush in the mid 1800's except this rush is of black gold.  
       I believe that if we are to instill the idea of drilling anywhere that we can, we will be able to see a vast majority in our economy and a major decrease in unemployment.  Many people will argue that there isn't oil in all of our country.  The fact is that with recent new technology, we are able to find oil in places that were thought to have no oil.  The technology used to find this oil is the new ability of being able to drill horizontally instead of only vertically.  This has helped us find oil in places like under vast mountain ranges where we could drill because of the seep peaks of the mountains.
        Oil drilling in North Dakota has led the state to have the lowest unemployment rates in the entire county at 3%.  Fi we can start drilling as much as possible, then we will be able to create a lot more jobs and increase our use of domestic oil rather than relying on imported highly taxed oil. If the state of North Dakota has seen such an improvement to their economy, how come other states aren't adopting there ideas?


      

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