Energy Crisis [FINAL]

“An energy crisis is any great bottleneck (or price rise) in the supply of energy resources to an economy. It usually refers to the shortage of oil and additionally to electricity or other natural resources. An energy crisis may be referred to as an oil crisis, petroleum crisis, energy shortage, electricity shortage or electricity crisis.” (wikipedia)

First cause why we are in this crisis is that oil in areas where we get our source of it is being depleted. Moreover, this means that higher demand of oil is equal to high price of. Second cause is that we consume energy too much and we do not bother to conserve it because most of us do not know where the energy comes from.

Every one of us knows that we consume energy even if we do not notice it. Sometimes in a single thing that we do we consume large amount of energy. Leaving the lights on, over charging a cell phone and other things that normal person does when using electricity. Therefore, when we conserve energy, we conserve oils because power plants use oils to produce electricity that we use in our everyday life. Therefore, our incomes or our salary sometimes depends on how we consume energy. For instance, we try to turn on our appliances even if don't use it. This may cause high bill for electricity. If that happens, our budget for our food and other bills that we have to pay are affected by it. Oil now has a high price; food and other goods are trying to make their price high too because they themselves uses vehicles to transport the goods that they deliver to every market.

In politics, they hold our freedom because they are the ones who implement the laws and rules that we are following. However, we know too that each one of us wants freedom in things that we want. When a person tries to achieve his goals with out the use of energy, it is harder to reach it. In contrary, when a person does use energy, it is easier to achieve it. Therefore, when politicians try to force us to conserve energy, it is harder to move or make an action. It is like reading a book in a dark room with out any light or lamp.

Energy crisis has different effects to us. One effect is unemployment. When oil companies raise their price, goods are affected and when that happens, consumers tend to buy cheaper goods or they don’t buy at all. The income of a particular shopping mall will gain less profit for their business and they will struggle in giving salaries for the workers. With that, they will try to fire some employees.

Peak Oil is defined as the point in the oil production cycle at which approximately one-half of the existing oil reserves produced. When that happens, we will consume all the oil in the world in the future and not a single drop we can use.
Solving this means a lot of cooperation in the world. We need to solve this because energy is one important part of our everyday living and without it, many changes will happen to our world. Another reason is our invention, gadgets, transportations and a thing that uses energy or oil will be useless unless we can use it with an alternative source of energy. And the last reason is, life depends on energy, without it hospitals are useless, fire trucks can’t stop fire without moving to the burning house, medicines can’t be made or be tested properly. Without these things, our life is harder.

We know that our gadgets, appliances etc. were made by the use of energy. So why can’t we use this things to solve our crisis?

In Japan, they created a car that does not use a gas rather it uses electricity. When cars like this commercialized around the world market, it will lessen the consuming of gas and money. Before, every nation showed their cooperation. They did not use any appliances or things that may use electricity for an hour. The reason behind this is to conserve electricity even for a small period.
“Employees have three rest days every week; supermarket workers are dismissed one hour earlier at night; streets are only colored by neon lights after 9:00 p.m.; and night golfing lovers have to temporarily quit their hobby. “ (Xinhua of People’s Daily)
The ideas above are the things that we will see in the future in our nation for controlling the crisis that we are experiencing right now. In the University Of Santo Tomas (UST), Biofuel is being practiced as an alternative source of energy.
There are many things that we can do to lessen and even get out of this crisis. Cooperation is the most important thing that we have to do; every nation should follow laws or rules when it comes to energy. We must try to help each other to find new things that can be use an alternative source of energy. What is the use of our so-called “modern technology” if we cannot use it to help us solve these crisis? I think the best solution is inventing and finding new ways that can help us conserve energy or make it as an alternative source of energy. In addition, implement a law that will help conserve energy.

In summation, conserving energy is a big part of our world, saving it can save our lives.