Dear Susan Davis (Final Copy)

Katie Gavares
Student
High Tech Middle Media Arts
3094 Olive Street
San Diego, CA 92104
May 21, 2008

Susan Davis
Representative, 53rd District
U.S. House of Representatives
1526 Long worth House Office building
Washington, DC 20515


Dear Susan Davis:

I am writing to ask you to support the idea of enforcing renewable energy. Our district, city, state, country, and world need it!
I am in sixth grade and go to High Tech Middle Media Arts in Point Loma. I really like what you have been doing to preserve the national forest, and parks, also beaches and wild life.
I am afraid that is not enough!! If we let this non-renewable energy crises go on, it hurts the whole cycle of life! It starts small but everything is connected in the cycle.
I’d like to show you several of the benefits to using renewable energy:
• The air will be much cleaner
• Future generations will live longer and better
• The animals will be healthy
• Our environment will be saved.
Some political interference might be that we rely on energy, even though it might be easier, cheaper to get non-renewable. In the long term, it will be much easier and significantly cheaper to go renewable!!
I would like to try to paint a picture in your head of what I see. When I think of non-renewable energy I think of dark gray skies, nobody smiling because we are all in cars and there is a ton of traffic. Fumes are coming out of our engines like it is air. I see no birds flying in the sky. There are no trees in miles that I can see!! But there are skyscrapers on every corner, sort of like Starbucks.
Now I would like to show you what I think about when I think of renewable energy. The sky is baby blue; there is not a cloud in the sky. Everybody is smiling. We are all on bikes or walking, there are very few people in cars. There are trees everywhere and it is so green. We are all HAPPY!!
I hope you can see the picture that I have in my head. I know it is way too extreme but through my eyes, that is what is happening already! We just need to start now and take small and steady steps to using non-renewable energy.
Some ways to get people started on renewable energy are:
• Start suggesting more hybrid vehicles. Give some tax breaks so people could afford to get hybrids.
• Encourage use of energy efficient light bulbs
• Build more windmills, even though they cost a lot to make, after they are made there is practically no maintenance needed. Plus, we save money and it is eco-friendly.
• Put more solar panels on top of buildings. Our climate in San Diego County is very warm, 90 percent of the time the sun is out, and so it is perfect for solar panels.
Thank you for all you have done so far on pushing us toward renewable energy! Please keep pushing- my future depends on it.


Sincerely,
Katie Gavares