Drilling in Alaska

 Author's Note: I think that drilling would be a waste of time. We need to find another resource.

Everyone has been wondering about if people should start drilling in Alaska. There are many good reasons and bad reasons for if we should drill in northern Alaska. For me, I think that we should not drill in Alaska because there would be too many things at stake, for instance, the environment.

Drilling for oil in Alaska is too risky with all of the wildlife there. If we were to start drilling it would require networks of roads and pipelines that would hurt the habitat, disturbing and displacing all wildlife. It would break my heart to see animals being moved from their natural homeland. Moving animals from their homeland isn’t the best idea because they will be surrounded by unknown resources and get real nervous. Another thing is all of the trees would just go to waste. Leaving wildlife forced to move on to another home. If the oil pipes where to break, the oil would spread everywhere. It would spread to the ocean killing the all of the ocean life there and killing all of the animals that get covered in oil.

Of course if we don’t drill for oil we will have to keep buying from other countries considering we only have three percent of the world’s oil. Yet we use about thirty percent of it. The gas prices will keep going up until most nobody can afford oil for their cars. So if we ever run out of oil or if we need it we could always have backup oil in Alaska. Let’s say that another country wants oil. I bet they would pay anything to get it so that way we all win.

The native people that live there might not be so happy about us drilling there. Though, some people might let us drill but they want money which makes no sense to me. I would never give up my land even for money. Those natives might regret it by not finding another home like the one they lost trading it for money.

We have had some ideas about how to start cars with solar panels and electricity. I hope that we will find an answer soon because I heard that in 30 years the Earth will run out of oil. I’m sure by then we will have something. It would be better if we just save it in case of an emergency.