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U.S. President Barack Obama said that the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico will have a decisive impact on how they will be looked at environmental issues in the United States.

In an interview with website Politico, Obama said that “the disaster will shape our environmental strategy for the coming years.” Tonight, Obama will visit the area affected by the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Most heavily affected area is composed of the territories Louisiana, Alabama,Mississippi and Florida. British Petroleum, the company responsible for oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico , manages to draw from the waters of the Atlantic, on average, 15,000 barrels of crude per day. Today, the Obama administration decided that BP is forced to raise this amount of oil recovered to 50,000 barrels per day.

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“I think this disaster will change the way we think about environmental issues and energy in the same way that the events of September 11 have changed our attitude about the vulnerabilities of security and foreign policy, “said Barack Obama .

“It is time that we could make a change (no in the economy from one based on oil to one that uses” new energy “) and invest in new ways of doing business when it comes to energy” , added Obama.

On 20 April, 11 people died in the explosion at the Deepwater Horizon platform, 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana. Oil spills have caused an ecological disaster, irreversibly damaging the ecosystem. Thousands of ships taking part in cleaning operations.

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