Adirondack High Peaks

on demand which brought prices down. With today’s worldwide economic recovery in the rising, demand is on the rise again but with the current uneasy situation in the Middle East and North Africa region has put the supply at risk. That combination of high demand and low supply had an inevitable result on higher prices at the…

NASA receives 3.5 times greater funding than the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), yet NOAA could help preserve the world. Amitai Etzioni discussed how the government should be more concerned about the ocean because it impacts the climate. Government funding should be put towards oceanic studies because people receive a lot of their food supply from the ocean. Finally, Etzioni discussed the amount of energy that could come from harnessing ocean currents. Etzioni has a great…

argue that the government should invest more money expanding oil and gas. While others contend developing wind and solar energy would be the smartest way to go. Mark Lewis argues that oil prices could stay so low that is no longer economic to bring in high cost new oil fields. But even if the oil price does rise, it will not be able to compete with a renewable such as solar and wind. 1. Recent studies like these shed new light on wind and solar energy, which previous studies had not addressed.…

Introduction The Keystone Pipeline was a proposed idea of a pipeline that would run from the oil sands of Canada to Steele City, Nebraska (“Keystone” 1). It would then connect with an existing pipeline that would administer it elsewhere. Since the proposal was for an oil pipeline that would cross international borders, it needed the President’s approval. The idea became such a controversial topic when President Obama stated that six days to decide the fate of this project was not a sufficient…

What is democracy? According to Webster’s dictionary, it is a form of government in which the people vote for their leader. In my opinion it is much more than that. I think democracy is not only people picking leaders as much as it is the freedom of choice. Democracy is the freedom to choose how we live our lives on daily basis. Growing up, we get to decide what our life dreams and goals are. I think in a democratic nation that we should be given the tools to succeed and the freedom to do as we…

foreign oil for industrial production and can be negatively affected by an increasing oil price. The major importers are United States, Japan and China (EIA 2016). These are the countries with a large population and industries that would require a high amount of oil, and their own production has been unable to fulfill the needs. A rise in oil price would affect every aspect of economy in these countries, from people’s daily life to the cost of industrial…

Renewable energy sources such as water, the wind, biofuel, and solar have little or no carbon emissions and, therefore, scores highly well in the replacement of fossil fuels. However, the cost of eliminating these emissions through renewable energy is high for all the alternatives. However, when considering the potential for the reduction of the emissions, wind power holds the best potential for reducing the emissions followed by biofuels and solar energy scoring the lowest on the list. Even…

“Oil currently accounts for 37 percent of U.S. energy use — more than any other fuel source — and 94 percent of transportation fuel” (Primary Energy Consumption by Source and Sector, 2010). With more than one third of the nation’s energy being produced by oil, it would be ridiculous to want to limit or reduce the means by which it is extracted right? The issue concerning offshore drilling and its limitations has become an ongoing debate, causing two major sides, with opposing opinions to form.…

. Sometimes we need the changes in trading patterns to earn more benefits. The New Zealand economy has changed in 2012. Obvious many changes have come up in New Zealand’s trade. In the early 1970s, the terms of trade were very high, because demand was very high for agricultural products. Later suddenly Agriculture prices down. From 1970 to 1973, the large increase in oil price and another increase in 1979 with a corresponding decline in the terms of trade. Higher oil prices impacted the New…

It took thirteen years, from the time I stumbled into kindergarten until the time I gleefully grabbed my diploma. My teachers spent 7 hours a day, five days a week, stuffing my noggin with knowledge. I invested countless hours of my time and energy into getting that diploma. However, throughout all thirteen of those years, never once did I question how much energy my school invested in me. Every year our nation spends more than $8 billion dollars on energy bills for our K-12 schools (Global…