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Friday, May 21, 2010

Changes Should Be Made!!!












Some personal changes that we can make is that we can use less electricity and we can unplug things that we are not using. We can also stop using the phone too much and also we can use less makeup and less stuff that has oil on them. Our community can walk or take their bike to work instead of the bus and or their car. The government should start making laws that protect the oil and they can also stop distributing that much oil. TO decrase our carbon footprint we can start unplugging electronics we can also recycle more. We can show them how oil dependent we are and conivnce them to do the same. I will not go back into our old habbits because we will make sure to stop doing things that hur us and that hurts the environment too. Because if we disconnect our plugs we will pay less for electricity and if we stop using that much makeup we will pay less. And we will be saving alot of money and alot of oil too.



S Source Google.

Why Does This Have to Happen to The Poor animals?!?!?!?







My name is Petra Borja and I work with the Greenpeace.




This oil spill really affects my life I love animals and I hate that there is oil around them and that they might die. It really concerns me that there are 210,000 gallons of oil in the ocean. I hate that the birds are having liver and kidney problems, poor animals they might die and if most of them die, OHHH NOOOO they might go into extinction. Beatiful animals like them are not supposed to be eating stuff that has oil in them. It harms them and it harms me. We have to help clean up for the poor animals that I love. I hope that their is no more animals dying I just dont like that . It makes me sad and I want to cry. I hope that Obama does not start offshore drilling, I wouldn’t like the animals getting hurt again. If another spill like this happends I dont wanna imagine how many more animals are going to die.







Source


http://www.sea-way.org/blog/penguins_brazil1.JPG





WE CANNOT LIVE WITOUT OIL... WE ARE TOO DEPENDENT


This past couple of days have been horrible. There are a lot of people who have lost their job; my neighbor who depended on his job to pay for his house now has to depend on the people that rent the other part of his house. He has to wait next to the mail box each month because he has to wait for his monthly unemployment check. I have noticed that anyone at this point of this crisis can get fired and cant support support the household.



Now I don’t waste as much money as before on what I wanted I have learned that money is really valuable in this crisis and that I need to save as much as possible. The money that I get from my work I save it and try not to waste too much. Every time that I have to get from one place to another I always travel by car, for me it is more comfortable than any other transportation. But this oil crisis is driving me crazy the gas is too expensive and sometimes I cant afford it. I have to buy gas because it is a necessity; I have to set my wants aside. Now I can’t go and buy the pair of shoes that I wanted because I have to save that money to buy gas. Elasticity plays a really big role in this economic problem because now that prices are higher I have to buy the products that I need, but I will buy the brand that is not as expensive as the one I am used to.







Source Google


http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/high-gas2.jpg

Friday, April 30, 2010

Locavores and Frankenfood????


I can not believe how much food has to travel to get to the stores near us. This activity was really surprising for me, I didnt know that the food that we love and that we need has to travel from so many places in the world.


I am really scared, I really dont want to stay without food. Food is a need we need it to survive, we cannot live without food we can die. =[

Last time that I went to the super market I noticed that all the prices of the fruit have increased. I was really surprise to see that a mango was .99cents for only one.
I know that Locasvores are the stores that are local, there we can find some stuff that are grown naturally. Frankenfood is the food that has chemicals on them.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Canceled Flights? Gas Station Outages? What's NEXT??? =[

There are many economic problems now that there are cancelled flights. The biggest problem is that if the airlines cancel the flights then they will not be getting as much money as when all the flights were not cancelled. A social problem would be that if the person that had to flight to where they had an important business to take care of and their flight was cancelled that person may now have a bad reputation because he they didnt get to where they were supposed to be.


Now if the gas station didnt have any more gas the people that need gas for their car will be so mad specially my dad. My dad really depends on gas because he has to drive to Long Beach everyday so he can get to work.
I would not like to run out gas because that is what gets us around. I just dont want to lose my car but I am willing to give it up and change to the metro, changing for the metro would be so different now to get to work I would have to wake up earlier because I would need to catch the metro to be in time. . I mean that would be the only way out. Oh NOOOO!!!! I so dont like that idea but I am willing to work with it.



I know for a fact that all of us are worried about losing our food and other stuff that we need on a daily basis. And if unemployment rate continues to increase there will be serious problems that I reallly dont want to imagine because it just scares me to think about it. =/



We are planning to let go of the wants and really just focus on what we really need. Source: Google

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Oil Shortage!!!


Today I watched a news report about petroleum and I learned that there are alot of things that are made up of oil or have oil in them. I have learned that oil is mostly used for gas. I have also learned that candles also have petrolium on them.

What I found most surprising was that medicine is also made out of oil. =0 Another thing that was surprising was that baby bottles and babies toys also have oil on them.

Source Google

Monday, April 26, 2010

Supply and Demand

Supply is the amount of things and services that producers want to sell for different prices during some time.
Demand is the things that buyers want to buy and have the money to buy.
Something that was so surprising about the quiz was that most of the questions there I did not know the answers to them.