| We all know about it. Wind, water and sunlight are | | | | and sunlight for thousands of years. Wind, water, and |
| three of the best renewable alternative energy | | | | sunlight are renewable energy sources; there's plenty |
| sources that we have--in abundance and for free! But | | | | of all three, and none of them add anything bad to |
| one fact remains, we're not utilizing them to their full | | | | the air we breathe. There's no toxic waste, either. |
| potential. | | | | Refineries must buy crude oil to produce the gasoline |
| Energy is a very big deal. We use a lot of it, and we | | | | and diesel that we use in our cars and trucks. Utility |
| get most of it by burning fossil fuels. The world has a | | | | companies must buy the gasoline and diesel that's |
| limited supply of fossil fuel. It takes millions of years | | | | used to create much of the electricity that powers |
| for oil, coal, and natural gas to form in the depths of | | | | our homes. But if we just put the technology that's |
| the earth. Fossil fuel is NOT a renewable energy | | | | already been developed to use to power our cars, |
| source. It's finite. We WILL run out. | | | | our trucks, our homes, and all of the thousands of |
| Burning fossil fuel for energy is not a good thing for | | | | little conveniences that we rely on and improve on |
| either our health or our planet's health. The emissions | | | | the technology, we can have our power and our |
| caused by burning fossil fuel are polluting our air - | | | | clean air both. We won't have to choose. And wind, |
| that's the air we breathe! We've got to do better. | | | | water, and sunlight are all free! |
| We have simply got to come up with a way to | | | | Of course, it's easier said than done. But unless we |
| harness renewable energy sources like wind, water, | | | | make a step towards that direction, we will always |
| and sunlight that will provide the energy we need and | | | | rely on the fossil fuels to power our lives. Plans have |
| none of the pollution that we don't need. | | | | been laid out, technologies are being created, all that's |
| Using wind, water, and sunlight to provide power isn't | | | | missing is our will and determination to keep at it until |
| a new concept. People have been using wind, water, | | | | we accomplish our goal. |