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Why are people looking for alternative energy sources?
31/Aug/2006: Is it a new fashion or trend or does it address some basic human need or desire to be self-sufficient?
More and more people are trying to squirm out of the hole they find themselves in while depending on the Arab sources for fossil energy.
People feel discontentment against the hike in gasoline prices by the Arab nations which adversely affect every sector of the nation.
Think about it, gas hike means hike in commuting expenses, hike in food supplies, hike in prices of bread and butter and milk. Everything is interrelated and people are
wondering why they need to go through this trouble? Why not find alternatives?
Reynolds (Indiana, USA) is one such village or town. This town boasts of a population of 553 residents and they are on a rebellion.
They want to power themselves solely from their very own resources like corn and pigs. They are presently working on a plant which will enable the town to draw electricity from pig and cow manure. A handful of the town's residents have already started driving cars which are run on ethanol-based fuel.
More and more people are buying hybrid cars, installing solar panels on roofs, doing anything and everything to save
money and make the environment a safer place for the present and future generations.
Reynolds has been nicknamed as the 'Bio-Town'. The time for thinkers has come, as more and more people are working out
ways and means to fund and design innovative and new alternatives to the fossil fuels.
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