Child Stars Bound to Break

   Many Teen icons have been under the spot light for too long and just want to live a normal live. We have seen Britany Spears for example go completly down hill. She never experienced what is was like to be a real teen. I believe that Miley Cyrus will be next, she has been in the spotlight and is an icon to many teens. This pressure will cause her to slip even more. The thing that is sad about child stars is they will never get that experience of being just a normal kid walking down the street and no one knowing who they are. America has grown up with many child stars and watched them go downhill. Hopefully Miley will not go down the same road.

Will The Oil Industry Ever Learn?

  America’s oil industry is furious at the Obama administration for not allowing them to do exploratory drilling off the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Coast. The article states:

“Given the disastrous oil spill in the central gulf, and industry’s inability to clean it up, one might have expected a little self-knowledge. Not from this crowd, which continues to lobby for more risky drilling instead of focusing all its energy on improving its capacity to prevent and respond to future blowouts.”

Because of BP’s inability to prevent blowouts, as well as the inability to contain and clean when blowouts occur, Obama made the overall right decision to deny new exploratory drilling. The oil industry argues that for a nation that consumes a quarter of the world’s oil, but only controls 3 percent of the oil reserves, “delaying drilling will increase America’s dependence on foreign oil.” The government has taken everything into consideration but the delay still stands. The government also takes accountability for part of the BP disaster due to there lack of oversight. It is said that, “one of the main reasons for putting the March drilling plan on hold is to give the government time to upgrade its staff and focus on creating a more stringent regulatory regime.”

Increase in Energy Research Spending Urgent for U.S.

   With the economy being the way it is in America today, which can be defined as terrible, funds for subjects such as energy, have been cut. America, who is now behind Japan, China, France and Korea in energy research, drastically needs to increase it’s spending efforts. The article states:

           

"The United States needs to more than triple its spending on energy research, development and demonstration projects, from about $5 billion now to $16 billion"

   The U.S. in lagging behind other industrialized nations in energy research spending which may eventually result in the U.S. being overtaken in the development of new energy technologies. In Obama’s 2008 election campaign he spoke of increasing energy research spending, but with the collapse of the economy, that money has gone elsewhere. And, although this necessity to increase spending is urgent, a bill being passed through the house looks grim due to it’s incoming republican leadership.