It’s easy to run around convincing people of the need for alternative energy sources when they’re being forced to pay over $4.00 for a gallon of gasoline.   But now that oil prices have nosedived to about $74.00 per barrel, just slightly more than half their record all time high of $145 per barrel reached earlier this year, the job of pushing for alternative energy becomes all the more challenging.

The facts remain the same.   Regardless of what you’re paying at the gas pump, the emissions spewing out of the tailpipe of your vehicle are speeding Global Warming and destroying the environment as we know it on this planet.   And if environmentalism isn’t your thing, keep in mind that the money from your gasoline purchases is still going straight into the bank accounts of some of the most repressive governments on the face of this earth.   They may not be getting a flush as quickly as they were at peak prices, but that’s still money that could be staying here in America to pay for energy resources like wind, solar and tidal that are readily available every day across this country.

You can in pushing for alternative energy projects in the United States by logging onto the Alternative Energy Action Network.

LINKS:

WaPo: As fuel prices fall, will the push for alternatives lose steam?

LA Times: Falling oil prices give consumers a break

The Alternative Energy Investor: Will falling oil prices knock down solar stocks?