The New York Times: What’s Behind Obama’s Drilling Plan?


A natural gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Alabama.

Peter Maass, author, "Crude World": "I consider myself an environmentalist and have written at length about the problems of oil extraction, but I have a hard time getting upset about the decision to expand offshore drilling. As a matter of global justice, why should America exclude its coastlines while coastlines all over the world are drilled for oil that goes into American gas tanks? Banning oil companies from operating in our waters while encouraging them to do so in other people’s waters — there’s a whiff of hypocrisy to that, a sort of outsourcing of oil pollution. Perhaps if we suffer more of the inconvenience of extraction we will reconsider the merit of continuing down the road of a fossil-fuel based economy."

Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 4/7/2010 6:00 AM
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Tags: east coast obama oil offshore drilling atlantic ocean natural gas
 

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