Finding Solution for Energy Crisis

Nowadays, our world is facing many serious problems, especially environmental problems. One of the environmental problems is energy crisis. Energy crisis happens in a condition when people depend on fossil fuel as their energy source. Fossil fuel is decreasing but the price of it is increasing. Energy crisis becomes everybody’s attention in this entire world because all of them feel the suffering. Indonesia experiences this pathetic condition.

            Indonesia used to be a member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), but ironically, Indonesia is becoming a net crude-oil importer after the domestic production fell sharply. That is the reason why Indonesia left OPEC a few years ago. Karishma Vaswani, BBC’s Asia Business Correspondent said, “It may be necessary to leave OPEC because of the economic and political conditions the country is facing right now.” As the citizen of Indonesia, it can be concluded that energy crisis is attacking Indonesia. Indonesia usually uses gasoline and coal as its energy sources. Many years ago, Indonesian people stay calm that they will not be lack of fossil fuel, but if we take a good look to the reality, we will find that the fossil fuel is decreasing now. This situation must be solved as soon as possible.

            The dependency on fossil fuel should be stopped since we have realized that energy crisis makes us hard to get cheaper gasoline, oil, or coal. People cannot ignore this situation. Gasoline and coal are energies that cannot be renewed. Can you imagine how the situation is going if the world goes without them?

            Since we are modern human, we must think fast and react automatically in facing any problems. If there are such nonrenewable energies, there must be the renewable energies. Wind, water, sunlight, and many more are renewable energies. We have them around us. Now, the thing is how we can make them beneficial for us.

            Wind, for example, is used by the fishermen for sailing. Fishermen in Indonesia usually use boats with sails. In this case, they do not need any gasoline to make their boats move.

            That was only an example of avoiding energy crisis. It will be better for us to start use the right thing that not gave us the bad impact.