Allowing deep water offshore drilling is in the United States best interest

I'm very sorry that I could not post my argument for the last round and I hope that the voters and my opponent would accept my apology. Now I will first go restate my own arguments. "1. Allowing deep water offshore drilling decreases US reliance on foreign oil. 2. Allowing deep water offshore drilling increases the supply of usable oil. 3. Allowing deep water offshore drilling increases the number of job opportunities, which leads to less unemployment, which benefits the economy immensely." My opponent says that my arguments are absolutely correct in my respect. But then he asks is this the best interest of the United States? Allowing deep water offshore drilling will benefit us, our economy, and the environment. Most of the ocean oil spills come from importing oil from other countries, like for us, the Middle East. It is estimated that 33% of the worlds oil spills come from importing fuel from other countries. It will help the environment and our economy for the oil spill from importing oil is more likely to happen than deep water oil drilling and if the other countries refuse to sell us oil or it reaches peak oil. We depend 67% of our oil from other countries and we need to start another way of getting oil if this sort of thing happens. My opponent have said a lot about how if it reaches peak oil we would still depend on oil and it's a short term effect. Now according to the New York Times "The Obama administration wants to reduce oil consumption, increase renewable energy supplies and cut carbon dioxide emissions in the most ambitious transformation of energy policy in a generation" There is already 5 top oil companies investing and making renewable resources for the future. The top 5 oil companies has already invested $5 billion dollars for renewable energy for the future and where do they get their funds? Of course the oil we drill and buy, the money will go into these oil companies and they will invest in new energy for they know as well that we're going to run out of oil. Chevron has spend $300 million dollars on the renewable resources and as well as other oil companies as I've already stated. There is an estimated of $343 billion dollars going back to the economy and if we invest there will be about $1 trillion dollars of revenue back to the economy. That is a huge profit and is something that we should go for. My opponent said that offshore drilling will only about last the United States 4-5 years. Well there's a new resource called algae fuel and the research is being funded by the oil companies and it's going to came up for the next few years. Here the part of the article: "Micro algae are single-celled photo synthesizers. They make fats that can be converted into bio diesel or jet fuel in relatively few steps. The organisms have become a fledgling favorite in the renewable energy sector. On January 14 the U.S. oil companies announced an investment of $44 million in efforts to commercialize algae-based fuels, and last summer even Exxon Mobil Corp. jumped onto the band-pontoon, announcing a partnership with scientist Craig Venter's Synthetic Genomic Inc. to develop algae as a fuel source." I agree that using oil do enter pollution into the atmosphere, but the thing is we don't really have a choice. Because we still need to use oil for our lives and that any way of getting oil is very important. As I've said we are going into renewable energy but until that time we still need oil and that is our best interest. Thank you and I very sorry again for the forfeit of the last round I hope the voters will not count it against me and that my opponent would forgive me also. Vote PRO please. Sources: 1.http://www.nytimes.com... 2.http://www.oilgae.com... 3.http://www.physorg.com... 4.http://www.alternative-energy-resources.net... 5.http://www.msnbc.msn.com...