Let The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill Be A Warning To All

If we haven't gotten the message that it time we began a full all out assault on developing alternative energy resources then the Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill should be a wake up call to everyone as to just how costly fossils fuels can be to our environment, health and way of life.

We are all aware by now of the pollution that fossil fuels produce and how these pollutants have a negative affect on our environment and the health of not only people but of other mammals and aquatic creatures as well.

These problems are compounded when through incompetence or through unforeseen consequences these finite sources of energy cause catastrophic results to the lands and waters we depend on for living and for sustenance.

For those that say that the gulf oil spill is just an aberration - if one is to consider this to be fact. Just one aberration can have decades long consequences that effects millions of people and untold millions of other life forms who share this planet with us.

As the demand for energy increase with more developing countries looking to improve the standards of living for there citizens it becomes vitally important that we all join together to start finding ways to develop alternative energy resources that are sustainable and reduce the hazards of there procurement and use not only to ourselves but to our environment as well.

If the amount of money that has been spent so far and that is projected to be spent not only on cleaning up this environmental disaster but on lost income and destruction of entire ways of life were to be used in research and development of renewable energy; it is most certain that current renewable technologies like solar, wind and hydrogen would see significant breakthroughs that would greatly reduce our dependence on such harmful energy sources.

It is up to each and every one of us to make sure that our legislators hear us loud an clear and that they understand that it's time to stop pandering to corporate interest and to start looking out for what is best for the citizens that put them in office. For they are here to serve the people not the power brokers.

If our legislators were doing their jobs the way they are supposed to be doing, it is likely that such an event could have been greatly minimized when it had occurred, because all possible industry safety measures would have been in place to minimize the problem before it became an ecological disaster.

If change is to occur let you voices be heard, do not remain silent for the next time it will only be much much worse. Remember the Exxon Valdez! They still haven't recovered from that one and the payments that were supposed to be issued have never materialized. As such it's the tax payer that gets hits with a double whammy while the companies go laughing all the way to the bank!