Alternative Energy

Over the weekend I was scrolling through Nexflix on my XBOX 360, and I came across a movie called Fuel. Like any other movie which I find on Netflix, I began to read through the movie's summary. According to the summary, the movie explores origins of America's dependence on fossil fuels, and it also campaigns for more environmental friendly sources of fuel and energy. I am very interested in "going green", so without hesitation I pressed A on my XBOX controller and began watching the movie.

I normally don't take much interest in documentary movies, but my eyes were glued to the 42 inch plasma screen tv in my living room for the entire 1 hour and 51 minute duration of the movie Fuel, and I highly recommend it to anybody else who is interested in the future of America. Our current fuel sources are finate, and they emit massive amounts of harmful chemicals into the environment. As a nation, we must begin to support alternative and renewable sources of energy and rely less on imporactical fossil fuels. The first step in this process is to raise awareness to the cause.

Raising awareness is simple. It can be done through blogging, protesting, or by writing to people who hold public positions. to take matters a step furthur, uilizing alternative sources of energy in your own home, and promoting those energy sources, will undoubtedly raise awareness to the issues at hand.

There were many theories discussed in Fuel concerning why our government doesn't begin to endorse alternative sources of energy as much as they do oil companies . One fact that I thought was interesting is that oil companies have alot of power and influence in the United States Government. Before becomming the vice president, Dick Cheaney was the CEO for a company called Halliburton, which is the second largest oilfield corporation in the world. After becomming vice president, Cheaney used his power to massively fund Halliburton and other oil companies.

I am positive that the millions of dollars which our government has thrown away to the oil tycoons could have been used to fund sustaniable energy sources. Before it is too late, we must raise awareness to issues like Cheaney's funding of oil companies. We must strive to fund and support the renewable energy sources, and not finate fossil fuel sources of energy. If we cannot trust our government to make the changes on their own, then we must force them to. Everybody knows promoting alternative energy sources is the right thing to do, but unfortunately the government and the oil industries are only out to make a profit instead of making positive changes for the future.