Pamphlet

Pros
• Can relay less heavily on foreign oil
• The oil obtained can be used for emergency reserves during critical oil shortages
• It would only take two years to establish the platforms offshore
• Drilling would stimulate the oil economy and supplement American reserves
Cons
• The oil gained offshore would not be enough to affect the global oil economy and lower gasoline prices
• Would disrupt undersea life, killing marine animals
• Offshore rigs produce chemicals when drilling that could stay in the ocean for up to forty years
• Drilling would delay alternative energy research and development









“3/11/05 Arctic Refuge: A vote to include language in the Senate Budget resolution that counted revenue from oil and gas leasing and drilling in the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge.”
Obama: Voted Green
McCain: Voted anti-green
McCain: McCain believes that if America drills offshore it can reduce its need for foreign oil.
Obama: Obama believes that oil companies should either drill in the sixty-nine million acres available or completely abandon the concept of drilling. He believes that drilling for offshore oil will not free the nation from its energy crisis.
Ellis Orozco, Jon-Luc Clark, Nick Santiago, Mark Hargrove