The “Cuba” Video Preaches Sustainability and Change in Lifestyle

From the video “Cuba” that we watched in class it’s clear that peak oil is imminent all over the world. It’s only a matter of time before the Middle East oil fields are pumped dry and our country, dependent on oil imports becomes devastated, both economically and socially. We cannot let our fate be dependent on a foreign resource that we cannot control (even though we try to with our armed forces). We must begin to take steps on the big scale level and small scale. Our government must step in and begin efforts to change where we get our energy from. We must invest on a large scale in solar, and wind energies to provide us with our energy. If we can do this we can drastically cut our dependency on oil supply and create more jobs in these industries. We need to avoid the collapse that occurred in Cuba. We cannot sit around and wait for the crisis to occur, we must be proactive. The video showed us how it will be necessary for food to be locally grown; I believe there will be a large dependency on local farms to provide us with our fresh fruits and vegetables. Farming will be a revived trade, more respected. I believe that America has the capabilities to change its ways, it is really a matter of changing the way people think. Many of the old men we’ve elected to congress are set in their ways, not willing to try change. Their large campaign contributions from corporations related to oil don’t help. We must begin to elect innovative thinkers, people that believe in global warming and shifting our energy resources. We also need to begin to make efforts on the personal level. We need to make changes in our everyday lives. Change our energy consumption in small steps. Auto industries need to begin to produce battery powered cars on a large scale like Tesla Motors. The company is coming out with 3 all electric car models in 2011 with ZERO emissions. The company also encourages its costumers to utilize new solar panels as a way of charging these cars and reducing our nation’s dependency on foreign oil. Granted these solutions are not easy or cheap but we must begin to invest in our future today. Not tomorrow.

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http://www.teslamotors.com/learn_more/foreign_oil.php