“Perhaps the United States should follow the lead of other countries and work on alternative energy sources. In Europe, wind and solar are replacing those fossil fuels and even some of our states are moving forward with other ways of heating, cooling and traveling from place to place,”
suggested Tanya.
Tom added, “This country has a great opportunity to lead the nations of the world away from fossil fuels. Look fossil up in the dictionary and you will come up with, ‘a person whose ideas are out-of-date,’ which precisely describes the CEOs of oil and gas companies. They just don’t get it.”
“Darling, not only would this approach help 29
save the planet, it would benefit many people with creation of high-paying jobs, even for illegal aliens.”
“Besides, many people feel that not only can we get involved with wind, solar, geothermal and bio-diesel, American ingenuity can develop other processes – not even in anyone’s mind, now – that could even be more beneficial. The initiative just needs to be taken to get moving on all these wonderful possibilities.”
“One choice that shouldn’t be made is for ethanol – a really dumb fuel whose very creation may be more of a detriment to the planet than oil or coal. That’s hard to believe, but it’s not a good investment since you don’t get out of the process anywhere near what you put in. In addition, if you check the time when companies were cranking up ethanol production, you’ll note that food prices jumped because one food supply was detoured into making a fuel for cars, while people couldn’t find corn in the supermarket,” responded Tina.
Tanya offered this, “Why not use waste products – trash that is just headed to the landfill –
for energy sources? You’ve heard of enterprising people running their cars on unwanted grease from the restaurants that cook chicken wings. Also, there’s a great deal of methane at the dumps that may be able to be converted into energy.”
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