What if Clean Energy was the Way to Go

And you know the answer, that is a big yes, but while every person in the world knows that the way to go is clean energy, on January 22, 2018, president Trump imposes 30 percent tariff on solar panel imports which he thinks is a bid to protect domestic manufacturers, therefore taking a more aggressive approach in regards his commercial relations toward China.

Now, let’s make some numbers, since this $28 billion dollar industry (solar industry) gets nearly 80% of its components and solar panels from imports, all we can expect are bad news for the industry and for the planet, since 23 thousand jobs will immediately be killed and 3 thousand more by the end of the year.

Apparently, the broke American companies Suniva and SolarWorld Americas, applauded this new tax against the planet, yes, I mean the planet, since America is one of the biggest green house effect contributors  in the world and you don’t have to go very far to see the planet going sick, the weather is crazy and worse than ever, and just by saying that this 30% tariffs would boost domestic manufacturing and add more than 100,000 jobs, it doesn’t mean it will happen in the near future, which is when we need it, not 20 years from now, when there will be no turning back.

This type of actions are the ones that make us think. Is America getting lonelier?, and this is an important question because, even though America is still the greatest country in the world, no one can keep on the top without the help of others.

So, what if taxing the future of the world is not the way to go to “make America great again” ? what if there was another way that could help the American workers and the planet at the same time?. It might be somehow difficult to group both things, but the good news are…there is a way and it is happening already, it only needs a little push to jump to a greater and healthier future.

There is an article from the Michigan State University called “Farm Sunshine, Not Cancer: Replacing Tobacco Fields with Solar Arrays” in which we can see that the demand for solar energy grows and so it does the demand for land for solar farms, this is to completely eliminate the need for burning fossil fuels, solar technology requires large surface areas. Hopefully one day, we will get paid to consume energy, like in Germany.

 

Think about it, the oil energy is coming to an end, you can tell because America, the biggest consumer of fossil energy sources is now out of the sudden exporting oil and more than that, beating one of the greatest producers of all time, (yeah, beating Russia), isn’t that suspicious? For years buying oil from the rest of the world and now because of fracking it can supply itself and even sell?. I think something is really wrong, I think that oil is been pumped so fast because a more sophisticated technology is going live very soon, but all that oil?. Well let's use it before is not worth a dime.

So, there is a way, not a taxing way to "Make America Still Great", we just need to open our eyes and don't let the monetary intentions of politicians get us off the good track to a better world.