Energy Crisis[Draft]

The Energy Crisis

In the Philippines, lady drifter Michelle Yeo Yu Lim does her own “cost savings.” She tries to plan very well the errands and meeting to save time and fuel. This being a good basis, since Miss Michelle is into one of the most extravagant hobbies around: drifting. This hobby’s pre-requisite is, of course, a car; a high end, tire-burning, engine-roaring, gas consuming car.

This given, even one of those who have such a hobby is doing something to change the crisis that we have right now. It is a given and sad fact that our country, as glorious our natural resources are, still acquires bio-fuels/oils/gasoline through purchase from other countries.

The undeniable fact that all around the globe, our natural resources are dwindling at a fast rate, to the point that we are now trying to look for alternative power/energy sources that could sustain and maintain our insatiable need for energy. There are other sources of natural energy like solar, geothermal, wind, and hydro power plants that convert nature’s natural forces into energy that we can use.

The only thing that is holding us back is the fact that we don’t know how strong the after-effect of our consuming of the natural deposits that our planet has. It won’t be long ‘till we feel the full force of the crisis before us. Slowly, some of the companies that provide jobs are dissolved because of the ever-increasing demand of energy throughout not only the market, but throughout economy and politics, too. Because those with government relations to other “first-world” countries can easily access oil at a much more viable rate.

In everything that I’ve known by reading texts, and by looking it up in the internet, this problem’s most prominent effects would be of the following:

 Higher price for everything due to the ripple effect caused by our need for energy
 An ever-increasing dependency on a slowly dwindling natural resource
 Jobs are eliminated due to bankruptcy of companies due to several factors; one would be the shortage of our natural resources.
 Loss of employees to other countries means less quality of products that our country produces AND exports.

With these facts stated, we should turn to renewable sources of energy, of which geothermal would be the most promising. There are scientist who are trying to perfect the process of converting geothermal energy into electricity, since it IS one of nature’s most destructive force, why not harness it for our use in every day lives?