http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62T06520100331
Obama opens new oil drilling offshore in climate drive
by Steve Holland
The area it covers is the gulf coasts and east coasts and Alaska.
This article relates to miller because it is taking about the drilling of oil which is a non-renewable energy that has to be extracted deep within the ground.
President Barack Obama unveiled plans on Wednesday for a limited expansion of U.S. offshore oil and gas drilling in an effort to win Republican support for new proposals to fight climate change. Opening up parts of the U.S. Atlantic coast, Alaska and possibly offshore Florida to exploration is Obama's latest effort to woo legislators needed to pass a climate bill before mid-term elections in November.Some senior Republicans in Congress called the drilling announcement a step in the right direction but said Obama did not go far enough. Environmental groups and some congressional liberals condemned the plan for endangering wildlife and coastal areas merely to give oil companies more profits.
I have mixed fillings about this one because it is stimulating the US economy and is providing jobs for Americans but there is a possibility of destroying wildlife and when burned produces greenhouse gases.
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This scares me!
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