Letter - Final Draft

High Tech Middle Media Arts
Elizabeth Morse
2652 Tokalon Street
San Diego CA 92110


May 12, 2008


Congresswoman Susan Davis
Representative – 53rd District
1526 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515


Dear Congresswoman Davis:


My name is Elizabeth Morse, and I attend 6th grade at High Tech Middle Media Arts School in Point Loma. First off, I applaud your efforts in education and the military and I encourage you to continue in your work.

The reason I am writing this letter is because I want government and citizens of the 53rd District to start using more renewable energy sources.

In school, we are learning about renewable energy sources and I’ve become aware of the need to use our current resources wisely and explore new energy sources, especially renewable ones. For instance cars, most of the cars we use today are powered by gasoline, which is terrible for our environment; it is one of the main contributors to global warming. One way we can slow global warming, is if most of the citizens in San Diego were to switch to hydro or electric powered cars.

Another smart energy solution is we could use more solar power to heat homes and water.

If we keep using non-renewable energy sources then we will eventually run out of things like coal, petroleum, and natural gas. If we didn’t do anything about global warming, then we will run out of today’s essential non-renewable energy sources, and find ourselves in the middle of a serious energy crisis!

One time my mom and I were driving to go see a play and I saw a big smelly truck that was pumping out all this smoke. It smelled terrible! Even inside my mom’s car I felt like my lungs were getting weaker and weaker with every breath! I don’t want our world to start smelling like that truck, or even worse, our air looking like the smoke coming out of the trucks tail pip!
I would much rather have a green, blossoming state that has good smelling air and barely any cars on the road.

I think there are things each citizen can do today, and I think there are more things our government can do to foster and encourage the use of renewable energy sources, for example you could take money out of the war fund and give it to car companies so that they can make more hydro powered cars, but they wouldn’t be so expensive.

Thank you for your consideration,

Sincerely,

Elizabeth Morse