drilling the coast of South Carolina for oil

As the state debates whether or not to drill off the coast of South Carolina, to find out if there's anything off our coast worth drilling for.

Some scientists say drilling off South Carolina's shore is not worth it. However, their answer changes a bit when you're talking about drilling hundreds of miles away.

The price of gas is up. The priority for getting more oil is way up. The possibility of it coming from our coast is the highest it's been in more than a decade.

But, experts say right off our Carolina coast you won't find much.

Some feel the east coast is a lot different the the gulf coast, as in there's not much in reserves in shore close to the coast.

However, others say if you plunge into the depths of the ocean far off our shore, there's a good chance you'll find natural gas and the thick levels of sediment with high potential to be gas are located hundreds of miles off shore. The thing is, no one's ever really tested it.

It's not like going and digging a water well on land. Anything you do in the marine environment, particularly deep water, is quite challenging and as a result, quite expensive.

But as prices continue to get higher at the pump, the cost of finding offshore material may become a little more realistic. However, even if scientists figure out what's out there, it doesn't answer the question of whether we should go after it.

Either way we should start saving the fuel we do have in addition to using other forms of energy, like renewable energy.

We can find all the oil we want, it's still going to be expensive. We've got an economic issue that's not going to go away and we need to solve it.

Scientists are already exploring wind energy potentials off our coast.