Passion of Oil - Freewrite

Passion can be found in anything. As long as there is something for us to do, watch, taste, or test, passion, in which ever form, will show. Passion goes in either direction. Oil is one of the two-way, love/hate topics. The first side in the discussion of oil is naiveté. When oil was first introduced into our way of life little to nothing was known of the effects it would have on us and our environment. Only after our sources of transportation, heating, and electricity were oil dependent did we discover its harsh effects on our earth. New forms of energy were introduced, with some still under development. There are faults in either side: the side of a environmentalist and the side of an oil lover.

Renewable sources of energy are great. Devices like the solar panel and wind turbines produce electricity without emitting green house gasses. The down side to it is its reliability. We all know that the wind doesn’t blow all the time and the sun doesn’t shine every day. For the days when the sun shines and the wind blows clean energy is created, reducing our carbon footprint in Earth. Not all places have enough sun to have solar panels, enough wind for wind turbines, or rivers or underground volcanoes to harness for good clean energy. Oil power plants don’t really have any limit to location. It can run day and night, all day, every day.

Oil has troubles of its own. Since its discovery, demand for oil raises annually. Roughly 98% of our forms of transportation run off of some form of oil. About 85% of America’s energy demand is fulfilled by fossil fuels, with coal and nuclear as the two leading sources. Forms of fossil fuels may be abundant, but sooner or later we will run low. I believe harsh, heavy impacts to our environment will encourage us to change long before we run short on oil and fossil fuels. No one can be sure of how nature will react to the amount of green house gasses we produce. What we can be sure of is change. We’ve changed before: from living simple lives to life with cars, jets, and electricity. If we don’t change for the environment I think we will change to save money.