Lock Your Windows, Lock Your Doors, Cause Everyones Getting Cancer

Lock Your Windows, Lock Your Doors, Cause Everyones Getting Cancer Via KSFY.com Bay residents were ordered to stay inside their homes to escape the air that could potentially expose them to carcinogens and chemicals that would be responsible for cancer.  People grabbed their keys, locked their doors, or headed out of town to escape the contaminated prison that is their home.  In the middle of their evenings the Bay Area was forced to halt their after school programs, dinner routines, sports practices, and many other activities to hide out from the consequences of dirty energy. Unfortunately the Bay Area residents are not the only people to be affected by refinery explosions near their homes.  The Bay did not experience any fatalities but in 2010 the Tesoro Corp. refinery in Anacortes, Washington three men died at the scene as well as two women workers and two men employees.  March 23, 2005, in the South’s BP’s Texas City Refinery, the explosion killed fifteen workers and injured 170 others. Refinery explosions appear to have made their mark on our Nation’s past and its crude oil continues to seep into our future.  With cancer rates at an all- time high and polluted air warnings following not so casual explosions, why is clean energy not on every American’s priority list? As a resident of Northern California, this summer I felt urgency and necessity for energy alternatives.  Coal has to become a part of our past along with the deaths it has caused, and clean energy must step into our future providing safety, comfort, and promise for our nation, like a home is supposed to.