Problem: Oil Spill, Solution: Clean Energy

As many of us know, oil spills make a huge impact on our lives and on the lives of animals and plants they interfere with.  From the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska in 1989 to our most recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, they truly have an affect on everything.   Traces of oil can still be found in the Prince William Sound in Alaska nearly 21 years after the incident, and if not contained, the oil from the Gulf of Mexico could destroy the grassland areas in Lousiana causing the coastline land to erode away.  Animal and plant life is destroyed in oil spills, causing the death of millions of innocent animals, just trying to survive in their familiar habitat.

Clean energy, while not an immediate solution for destruction that oil spills cause, can prevent all of these problems by taking us away from our dependency on oil and fossil fuels.  Without this dependency, oil companies will have no choice but to downsize their oil drilling facilities, decreasing the amount of facilities that could potentially cause oil spills and other destruction of wildlife. Clean energy offers a means of protecting and preserving the environment for the future, while being cost effective and convienent!