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This article is about the Democrats. Since the Democrats are in the majority in the House, there are new changes in how they are handling the bills on oil. One of the changes would be to give tax breaks to oil companies who are involved in research of alternative fuels and in helping to decrease our dependence on foreign oil.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/19/congress.energy.ap/index.html

This article is telling how rising gas prices are forcing companies to come up with alternative ways of producing energy fuels. Ethanol is talked about as the leading alternative fuel considering things like money and availability of the source of the fuel.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/earth/2690341.html

I think producing the voter guide on health care reform in the US helped me to look at the big picture of health care along with all the components that are involved with the issue. I learned so much about health care reform and I increased my understanding of complex political issues. I realized how important it is to look at the many opinions of politicans and the different political parties and form an opinion for yourself. I now know how much health care reform impacts everyone in the US and I gained a perspective on what I am going to be going through in a few years since we targeted college students. Since we had to write in a unbiased manner, I learned to read the biased opinions of political parties and use the information in our medias in a unbiased way. I benefited from doing this project by not only gaining knowledge on health care, but I also increased the quality of my technical writing.

Creating the voter guides really helped me understand the issue of net neutrality. I felt that I was a good example of the population that we were trying to reach--uninformed college student. Net neutrality really affects more people and businesses than I first thought. It could very much make-or-break a small business that is trying to compete with a large corporation. Also, it could really affect how college students use the internet. Email could be slowed, and since many of our assignments are now online, it could hamper our ability to utilize the internet to the fullest extent.