Effects Of Cars On Cars

Today in the world, cars are the most used way of transportation, even though they have been in production for only about 100 years. Overpassing, airplanes, trains and boats in mileage, cars are dominant in transportation. The average American household has 2.28 cars at their house. Over 90% of Americans own a vehicle for their household. Not many Americans do not own a car, which is why issues like gas prices affects American citizens so greatly. In 1990, 188,798,000 registered drivers in the US. As of 2009, there was 246,165,000 registered drivers so there is a growing demand for automobiles. As the technology gets better, the technology enhances and out dates older models.
Today’s models of automobiles include hybrids, trucks and many

Although gasoline has many advantages, the source of energy also has many disadvantages, such as pollution, expense and at times availability. At times, the disadvantages of gasoline outweigh the advantages. Many different biofuels have been made over the past 100 years, but most of them were not incorporated into hybrid cars until the 2007-2008 recession where getting fuel was a problem and as a result, gas prices shot up. Ever since 2008, biofuels look to be a great part of the future of automobiles. Gasoline consists of a certain arrangement of carbon and hydrogen molecules. The heating of this special oil creates an enormous amount of power, especially at a constant rate. Gasoline is used as the fuel for internal combustion engines. The combustion chemical formula that powers the engine is 2C8H16 + 25O2→ 16CO2 + 18H2O. The problems with this enormous amount of power is when gasoline is heated up and burned within a car, it transforms the oil into gas that is very dangerous of large concentrations of it. That gas is lethal to the ozone. Other problems with gasoline are mostly because of the dependence of oil from foreign countries. In 2012, 40% of the consumed oil by the US were imports from outside of the Unites States’ borders. Of that 40%, so of the main imports came from Canada (28%), Saudi Arabia (13%), Mexico (10%), Venezuela (9%) and Russia (5%). If a major event happens and the US loses foreign ties with other countries, the US would only have 60% of their own oil production to rely on. Foreign countries will not always be on America’s side, especially with the Gulf War happening very recently and with the current Ukraine-Russia conflict. In the last 20 years, the US imported 6 million bb/day in 1994. The number slowly rose until the year 2007 where the amount of imported oil stopped rising. During