Review
The article “Seven Reasons Cheap Oil Can't Stop Renewables Now” by Tom Randall describes about the reason why the cheap oil is not influence the grow of renewable energy. The author shows a comparison between cheap oil and renewable energy in many aspects. By the text, the author tries to persuade people to keep using renewable energy as it is not affected many aspects in life. As a beginning, the author states that oil prices have fallen by more than half but it did not cause the bankruptcy of renewable energy industry. Personally, I agree with the author statement because old-fashioned way such as oil will be replaced by renewable energy.
As a support, the author shows seven points why the bankruptcy of renewable energy industry does
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Oil prices won’t stay this low forever.
7. Global investment in clean energy keeps flowing.
To support these points, the author uses many data such as graphs that taken from many sources such as EIA, CIA, World Bank, Bernstein analysis, and many more. From my perspective, the data really support the ideas. However, there is inadequacy in both idea and data in point number 5. The author only tells the country where pump prices have not dropped as much as oil prices. Furthermore, there is no single data in point number 5 to convince the idea. Therefore, it needs more further explanation about point number 5 as a way to convince the reader. The article meets my expectation very well because I expect that in the near future, people will change to renewable energy even if the soil prices have fallen into more than half and so the renewable energy is still developing. With more explanation and data, the article convinces me very well. Furthermore, there are new knowledge for me such as the solar prices and sales of plug-ins. Beforehand, I thought that the solar prices would be escalated and sales of plug-ins would be down since the oil prices downturn. Instead, the solar prices are going down and the sales of plug-ins are