WILL IT EVER CHANGE

The price of oil keeps shooting up, especially, during this volatile period where Arab countries (major producers of oil) seem to be experiencing so much unrest. It gives us, users of crude products, a cause to worry. However, as a passionate advocate for clean energy and the environment, I should say that the unstable nature of oil prices should really encourage us, human beings, to consider other clean, safe, less expensive, efficient and effective sources of energy. Today, I read a friend's status message. He asked a very basic and simple question with regards to the use of alternative sources of powering motor vehicles. He asked why we are not experiencing a rise in demand for electric vehicles when the price of crude oil keeps shooting up.

There are so many answers we can provide for this question: infrastructural reasons, availability of input products in producing the commodity in large quantities, , cost of production, future expectations of crude prices, etc. The list can go on for quite some time. Albeit all these reasons, I believe this is the time for consumers to put pressure on producers to come out with alternative sources for powering vehicles (this is not to say that there are no alternatives in the market, that will be downright erroneous). For a push in this direction will be good for the stability of crude prices, especially, when we have found an effective and efficient alternative to it.

The only way this dream can be achieved is for both consumers and producers to come to a consensus that the need to push for alternative energy sources is not just pertinent for the near future crusade, rather, it is needed today. I believe it is this common assertion that will provide the impetus for the rise in demand for alternate energy products, like electric cars, in the world.

We need to make the world a better place to live in; the change we seek so much for ourselves cannot be located in the future, it is in our backyards, our beaches, the sun, and the water bodies, and the ultimate location, in US (human beings). All these can be found right here and now, in the present, let us all come together with one voice and reduce the power of OPEC. Alternative energy sources, the key to stabilizing crude prices