| At the moment if households want to go green and | | | | In order to assist households using alternative energy |
| have an alternative power system, they have to | | | | power systems like: |
| invest some money. Of course they will save money | | | | - Biodiesel home kits for self production |
| in the long run but usually the middle and the low | | | | - Solar panels |
| class households have difficulties investing the initial | | | | - Wind turbines |
| amount in order to put the alternative energy | | | | Governments must increase the going green funds. |
| system in place. This is usually the case; those that | | | | This is not just a matter of helping the people with |
| need most to save money have the least means to | | | | their savings and improving their life quality, but it is |
| do it. | | | | for the big picture benefits as well: |
| Many governments allocate budgets to encourage | | | | - To have a cleaner planet |
| their citizens to use alternative energy sources. The | | | | - To fight the global warming |
| main problem with these budgets is that it is far from | | | | - To support local farmers (renewable energy) |
| being enough. The demand for government grants | | | | - Reduce dependency in Foreign oil companies and |
| and subsidizes is much higher than what these | | | | states |
| governments offer. | | | | There are so many good reasons to assist individual |
| The main incentive of governments to encourage | | | | household to use alternative and renewable energy |
| people to use low rate emission power energy | | | | instead of energy based on fossil. Governments are |
| sources is that they are signed on global agreements | | | | starting to go in the right direction but it seems that |
| to reduce the total carbon dioxide emission in order | | | | they are taking it a bit slow. |
| to fight the planet global warming. | | | | |