Well I have some good news concerning the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge! The bill concerning the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is not going through. It was stripped from the budget on Nov. 9th after intense pressure from active concerned Americans. It was stopped by 25 Republicans who refused to vote for a bill that contained drilling provisions. This is not the end apparently there is another bill that the senate passed which does…I don’t know all this politics just gets to confusing for me(Click here for more info). All I know is that we still have a chance to keep drilling out of the Arctic.

Anyways back to the energy. You may be asking yourself by now…well Samantha what should we do. Well there are more elaborate, educated and all around better answers but I will provide you with mine. I think that at the moment given the forms of energy I discussed, a combination between wind, solar and oil/coal/natural gas should be used. I think a combination of these energies will be the most practical and possible solutions for the current state of the world. Along with constant innovations in energy efficient products, we will be heading in the right direction.

Now where do we start, how do we convince individuals, business and government to start along this path? Making people not only change their ways, but asking them to spend money while doing it is extremely difficult. The only way for this to really work is for the government to get involved. Individuals and business may help to push them to do this by voicing their concerns, but for a mass movement the government needs to commit and invest. “Most of the modern technology that has been driving the U.S. economy did not come spontaneously from market forces," NYU's Martin Hoffert says "The Internet was supported for 20 years by the military and for 10 more years by the National Science Foundation before Wall Street found it." This is true for many technological advances in NASA, jet planes, satellite communications and computers were all supported and invested in by the government.
I don’t know what it will take for our government to begin it’s investment in alternative forms of energy. It may be increases in oil costs, pressure from other countries, pressure from within our country or increases in pollution that take more economical toll than just causing environmental damages. I just hope the change comes before it’s too late.
This is a photo graph of surf power I did not discuss this form of energy but it basically uses the movement of water to generate power. This powers 14 homes in Hawaii.