YOUTH GRAVITATES TO NEW ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

SoHo, New York City - With an impending energy crisis tearing away at the pockets of hard-working Americans every day, a new and unlikely group has been speaking out about alternative energy options in the downtown New York area. The group consists of a bunch of teenagers and young adults who all have the similar belief that “alternative energy is the new form of energy, man.” Says 23 year old Alternative Energy fan Kyle Bukowski, “My dad was a big fan of fossil fuels but to me, it’s all the same. We wanted something new... something the youth of today can relate to.” The group of friends, clad in torn flannel, ripped jeans and Converse All-Star shoes, meets regularly at cafes in SoHo most of the time to sit and talk about how their generation really needs to do something about the energy problem or whatever.
When asked why the youth was so magnetized to alternative energy in the midst of expected teenage apathy, Kelly Minton, 19, explains that “it’s an escape from the ordinary energy of the ‘80s.” Dylan Tanner, 17, “really likes how alt. energy really brings the angst and rawness back into energy.” Other turn-offs of the oil and coal industries include the glamor, superficiality, outrageous hair and tight pants of the legislators who support these energy systems - a piece of evidence supported after the National Enquirer printed an article of Senator John Thune (R- South Dakota), a fossil-fuels advocate, in tight neon-pink spandex outside his Rapid City mansion. There are some dissidents among the pro-alternative energy youth who support indie and emo energy.