| Why should we worry about power and electricity? | | | | Electricity. If you don't think that's a big deal, go ahead |
| Why should we have the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) | | | | and add up how much you've spent on power in the |
| mentality? Well, the answer is simple: every major | | | | last year - it's unbelievable, and the electric companies |
| breakthrough in history has come from that sort of | | | | have so much power over our lives. And if you don't |
| attitude, and every invention has begun this way. | | | | believe THAT claim, go ahead and try not paying your |
| Many of us have taken on the attitude of the | | | | electric bill. See what happens. Our entire lives shut |
| government or big companies doing these things for | | | | down without power, and they wield it over us with |
| us, and I don't really know when that started...but it | | | | little mercy. |
| certainly hasn't always been this way. WE used to be | | | | I implore you readers to invest just a little time and |
| the government, and PEOPLE used to control the big | | | | money into being self-sufficient with energy. Maybe |
| companies. Our thought processes need a kick in the | | | | you won't accomplish it in your lifetime, but if you only |
| head, and we need to refresh. | | | | START, our children will be in a much better position to |
| Think of the advantages of doing it ourselves. If we | | | | FINISH it and start controlling this aspect our their lives. |
| could use our own solar panels and wind power in our | | | | Not to mention it's clean energy. Save the earth and all |
| own homes, no longer would we be so reliant on Big | | | | that. |