Washington D.C. Youth Tour

Wrote Mele LeLievre, a junior from Pagosa Springs High School, “…A couple of days before I was born, a hurricane hit Kauai and electricity was shut down, causing devastation for our family and all those inhabiting the island. For six weeks, people were using fire pits to boil water, kerosene and candles to read by, and finding ways other than television and radio for their entertainment.”

A junior at Durango High School, Julia Nass wrote, “The enormous amount of progression occurring in today’s technological era is possible only because of the power that fuels it. Namely, electricity; it holds an insane amount of power over this world. There can be little doubt that the very hope for our future depends on its wise and responsible use.”

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Wrote Bayfield High School junior Lisa Wickman, “Now more than ever, the need to save energy is imperative. Saving energy means saving money as well as saving the environment. By using fluorescent light bulbs, both of these issues can be solved by average Americans. If each household in California changed one light bulb for a compact fluorescent one, 616 million kilowatt hours of energy would be saved in one year.”

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Ethan Pearson, a junior at Ignacio High School, wrote, “…I believe that without electricity the world would be nothing like it is today…I find it amazing how much humans have changed their way of doing things. Back in ‘the old days’ people used to write all their essays and work on a piece of paper. Now people just pull out their laptops and just type it up, just like I am doing with this paper.”

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