Davis Political Review: Our Crude Awakening

“We have ended the war on American energy,” President Trump stated in his most recent State of the Union address. Seven years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster coated the Gulf of Mexico in oil, the Trump administration plans to legalize offshore drilling on most U.S. coastline.

The proposed five-year plan will allow oil companies to drill in 47 areas of America’s public coastlines, which will be the first major offshore drilling expansion proposed since 1984. Essentially, our oceans and coasts are being auctioned off by the GOP-backed Trump administration, as they erase the 2010 policies put into place following the worst oil spill in U.S. history. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, the Deepwater Horizon Spill caused more than $8.8 billion in damages to natural resources alone.

Let this be an example of what is to come if this drilling legislation becomes law.