One day, a mayor was talking with a staff member in his office at city hall. The staff member was showing him a graph that said the damand for clean energy had been increasing year by year. She said "we needto do something." The mayor was looking at the graph and looked concerned. He was thinking what to do.

 

At a staff meeting, the mayor suggested building a new energy plant. Everyone in the meeting looked interested in the idea and they all agreed with him.

 

A few years later, the mayor was at the construction site. While one of the construction workers was explaining about the energy plant, the mayor was holding a schedule for the project and listening to him with great interest. The sign board there said the plant was coming soon.

 

Several years later, the mayor was back at the energy plant. One of the workers at the plant said " mainttenance costs are increaseing."

 

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One day, a mayor was talking with a staff member in his office at city hall. The staff member was holding some information card, including a graph that said that the demand for clean energy was rising, and she told him that the city needed to do something to meet the demand.

 

At a staff meeting, the mayor was proposing an idea to the members of his staff. His idea was to build a new energy plant in order to meet the increasing demand for cleaner energy. All the members in the meeting nodded and agreed with the idea.

 

A few years later, a worker was showing the mayor the progress of the energy plant's construction. The mayor was pleased to see that the project would soon be completed.

 

Several years later, the mayor and the staff member were back at the energy plant. She looked concerned as she told him that the plant's maintenance costs were increasing.

 

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I'd be thinking that I should have thought more about the maintence costs before the project began. Still I think it is important to try the best to meet the rising demand for clean energy. I'll look into the way to cut down costs of other things as well.

Yes. Many companies today consume a large amount energy and release a lot of carbon dioxide by burning fossil fuels. This is one of the main causes of global warming, so they have responsiblity for reducing the amount of energy that they use in order to protect the environment.

I don't think so. This is mainly because politics is too difficult for young people to understand. In order to solve the problem, I believe that schools should teach them more about politics, or the media should provide more sources of information about politics that are easy enough for young people to understand. By doing so, they will be more interested in politics.

No. I think that taxes are already too high, especially for people with low incomes. If the government wants to start spending more money on public services, they should first think about budget cuts in other areas.