Both Republican and Democrat officials in Louisiana admit that moratorium on deepwater drilling has badly affected the state. U.S. federal government officials and many environmental activists say the temporary ban on drilling is necessary to prevent further accidents. But people in the Gulf region are worried that many of the well-paying jobs provided by the energy industry might leave and never come back.
It is true that in Louisiana people make a living from the oil and gas industry than from fishing and the moratorium has put hundreds of them out of work. Local people say that they now fish on their own time because there is little work available. They also said that it is hard to find jobs and what work one find is not guaranteed to be steady because with the economy already down like it is and they are putting this moratorium on them, it is just making things worse.
Experts believe that the moratorium is eliminating the oil field from working so, in turn, the people that have been working in the oil fields are not going to build, so they ain’t have any residential homes being built, everybody building or repairing their homes. If the moratorium results in a large drop in Gulf oil production, that could also hurt the economy, since the Gulf provides about a third of U.S. domestic petroleum production.
