Demand for gas and oil is increasing and so finding new sources in remote and untouched areas is a necessity. Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?

As the demand for fossil fuels is rising, discovering new supplies from intact or remote regions is necessary. I believe that the drawback of

this

outweighs the benefit because the long-term resource and economic sustainability of the untouched region would be devastated, despite the overall reduction in prices of fossil fuels. The merit of finding additional sources of

oil

and gas from the countryside is that it will increase the national supply of these resources, and thereby allowing more affordable prices of various goods. It is abundantly clear that the ever-increasing prices of these resources are unmatched with the supply in urban cities. If new sources are excavated and transported into the urban regions, numerous households will be able to afford to pay out their heating and electricity bills, and businesses will no longer pass on their increased resource costs to their customers.

For instance

, Harvard Business Review announced that the discovery of

oil

field in

the

Correct article usage

apply

show examples

Texas has led the depressing the increasing price-level of fossil fuels in its neighbouring states.

Nonetheless

, while the urban population is able to enjoy from low costs of

oil

and gas, the long-term prospects of the untouched regions are significantly hampered once their resources are depleted. If all resources are exhausted, local economies of remote areas will be impaired as these places mostly depend solely on their natural resources. Unlike urban cities, countryside economies develop their infrastructure and increase

employment based

Add a hyphen

employment-based

show examples

on manufacturing

oil

and gas.

This

overdependence on resources may yield lucrative short-term benefits to the local people, yet, in the long-term, once their resources run out , local people do not have any other viable alternative income sources and even forced to leave their hometown. The Javanese people,

for instance

, heavily relied on their

oil

supply for a decade, did not diversify their economy which left 12,000 people to lose their jobs, once the excavation operations ceased to move to other locations. To conclude, I argue that

although

people from urban areas can benefit from the reduction in

p

Add an article

the

show examples

rice of goods and services due to new discoveries of

oil

and gas in less developed regions, it is more detrimental to the people in remote areas as they will face unemployment and poverty after the resources are depleted.