Fossil Fuels vs Renewable Energy

Burning Fossil Fuels:

1. Contributes to global climate change.
2. Causes health problems such as heart disease and lung disease
3. Increases health care costs for all of us.
4. Pollutes streams, destroys forests, destroys wildlife, removes mountains.
5. Leaves the USA dependent on the whims of foreign governments that hate us.
6. Sends money back to countries that finance international terrorism.
7. Causes huge destructive fluctuations in our economy when gas goes way up.
8. Requires dangerous mining and drilling resulting in frequent deaths.
9. Requires delivery via ships and trucks that pollute and use additional resources.
10. Subject to spills which are difficult, expensive, and often impossible to clean up.


Renewable energy

1. Once Solar panels are installed they require no ongoing mining or drilling for resources. You only have to truck a solar panel once to its destination (once every thirty years).

2. Sunlight and wind are delivered to your home everyday for free by mother nature. No ships and trucks are required to deliver the energy to your home.

3. Solar panels do not give off harmful disease causing pollutants or stinky smoke while in use. Nothing is burned.

4. Installed renewables help stabilize the economy by stabilizing the price of energy.

5. Renewable energy will help clean the air and help health care costs go down.

6. Using renewable energy will mean fewer coal miners will be killed or trapped.

7. Renewables owned and operated by Americans means foreign governments will not be able to hold us hostage to their oil.

8. Renewable energy products made in Western Countries will not be sending money to terrorists.

9. Renewable energy will help turn around global climate change if we act quickly.

10. Fewer oil spills destroying eco systems will occur.