How Beneficial is Replacing 20% of our Fossil Fuel Use with Renewable Energy by 2020???
Tony Krzysik, Ph.D., Prescott Audubon Society, Conservation Chair and Board of Directors 18 July 2007 Of course we should push our Congress for implementing legislation for increasing our use of Renewable Energy while concurrently decreasing our use of Fossil Fuels. Fossil Fuels are: coal, oil, and natural gas. Fossil Fuel use, especially at the unprecedented current global use, but particularly by the U.S., represents three highly significant problems: 1) contributing significantly to greenhouse gases (mainly carbon dioxide, but also methane, and some nitrous oxide); 2) our dependence on foreign oil, especially in the Middle East a major security threat and the reason for our war with Iraq, when we should have been concentrating on Al Quada and bin Laden; 3) fossil fuels are a finite resource that not only take at least tens of millions (if not several hundred million) of years to develop, but the environmental conditions have to be rather specific. Therefore, fossil fuels need to be
