But that can be changed. For example, in the Southwest, they have something called the Hoover Dam that provides most of the power for Arizona and Nevada. Up in the Western New York area, they use water power as well with the Niagara River. And out on Long Island, they just started a project to build a number of large wind mills, which they say will provide all of Long Island with polution-free power. There are many ways to do it without burning fossil fuels. The problem is that pressure must be put on the politicians to initiate this change. Most of them receive large campaign contributions from the oil companies, and they are not about to give that up to support a bill that will most likely get voted down anyway. But if they think they will lose many votes over an issue, they will go against their backers in order to keep their elected offices.