Disaster: Concerns Of Fossil Fuel Production

By Yasmine Robinson

The Peanut Gallery

on Environmental & Public Works:

The recent eruption of Mount Sinabung on the Indonesian island of Sumatra is detrimental to the environment of that region as well as the environment of the United States and the rest of the world. Even though the eruption had an effect on the environment, the United States is dealing with the dwindling supply of fossil fuels.

Conservatives will take into account the fact that the US needs these fossil fuels and that we cannot be caught up in saving the environment by stopping the productions of these necessary fuels that keep our nation running. The liberals on the other hand will mainly be concerned that the mixture of particles coming from the volcano and the particles coming from the combustion of fossil fuels will hurt our country’s environment even more thus pushing the liberals toward the halt of creating fossil fuels.

Even though a world without fossil fuels is conceivable, we need an energy system with clean, efficient, and renewable energy sources to have an energy secure future; and being preoccupied with the effects the volcano could have will not help deal with the pressing issue of American’s energy resources.

Preserving the environment is a major issue but ensuring that we have a reliable energy source with fossil fuels is what the Republican Party is aiming for. These environmental issues could directly affect the bills passed by the Environmental and Public Works Legislature.

Considering the events that have occurred both parties for the Committee of Environmental and Public Works will debate about whether bills should be passed to stop the creation of fossil fuels for now and help the environment which will change due to the harmful gases caused by the volcano.

The main debate between the two parties will be if the United States should focus on the effects of the volcano and what it does to our own environment or if the United States should focus on it’s own energy struggle and continue to burn fossil fuels and keep it’s energy production intact.