Some may argue that gas is an environmental miscue. Gas is fill with many chemicals that is harmful to us humans, and to our natural substance. Gas is one of our main sources of energy that we use in everyday life. Our vehicle runs off gas, which causes a major problem for our o-zone. Fuel exhaust causes pollution, which is harmful to the air that we breathe in. We as Americans are in at war because of gas. The United States is in need of more oil, because we are running so low. Why is gas such a main factor in today’s society? Because in the future it will be the cause of an environmental mishap. Our world's population now spends $3 trillion a year on automobile-and gasoline-related purchases. This global economic spending on paper is a perfect split with $1.5 trillion a year going to the auto industry and the same amount of money funding gasoline purchase. The dream of electric cars that don't require any gasoline would be very efficient in today’s society. Despite the increase of pollution and high gas prices, gases are used for everything and give us the ability to run corporations, motor vehicles and heat. This is why gas is precious because it is use for majority of the thing that we use today. While gas is essential there are steps that should be taken to reduce our dependence on it .
Gas in today’s society is some what harmful to the economy; it has a lot to do with our climate changes, low-carbon and carbon emissions. Under the pressures of climate change, many countries are trying to adapt to a low-carbon economy. Getting into a more prospective point, oil production affects the vegetation, soil, water and other components of the human environment. Environmental impact and risks associated with oil and gas extraction,...
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...s in some densely populated counties require all new housing to use solar hot water systems. Installers skillful in both systems will have the most opportunities. These are ways that we can start building on our economy and help the environment.
Fuel efficiency is a very high risk and it does need to be taken very seriously. The world is so busy worrying about the money and no thinking about the economy and most importantly the people. Us as Americans should be thinking how we can improve energy efficiency, “It is time we take our environmental ad energy futures into our own hands.” James Peach (13). We can development an alternative and renewable energy, enhance the potential of carbon sinks, and develop advanced technology. If we able to get this done, find a way to reduce fuel efficiency the world could be a much better place, and a better environment.
If we increase the efficiency remarkably, we may be able to consume fewer fossil fuels and may be able to reduce carbon emissions into the atmosphere therefore saving Mother Earth. This will not happen shortly, but in the future when my great-great-grandchildren are in the working force designing these engines.
The United States can decrease its dependence on oil-producing nations and improve the environment without robbing every citizen's pocketbook. The gasoline used in most cars today produces pollution, endangers people's health, forces us to be dependent on OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Companies) or other oil production organizations, and contributes to global warming. The main reason people have not converted to cleaner, healthier fuel is that hybrid and electric cars are more expensive than the cars and gasoline we are using now. However, we could implement a program for selling cleaner fuel at a lower cost than it is now offered. If this program were organized correctly, the increased costs would be minimal in the long run and the benefits would be enormous. After considering several possibilities, I concluded that alcohol-burning cars are more practical than other environmentally friendly options because electric and h...
Solar heaters are kind of green solution and not only they are saving energy, but they also protect the nature
Bezdek, Roger H., and Robert M. Wendling. "Fuel Efficiency And The Economy." American Scientist 93.2 (2005): 132-139. Academic Search Premier. Web. 26 Nov. 2011.
Gasoline and the environment, it contributes to pollution in the air and other effects it has on people. Gasoline usage contributes to Air and Water Pollution, therefore people need to find a way to reduce pollution in their societies. (eia.gov) Just in one single day Americans use around 380 million gallons of gasoline. (eia.gov)
This project investigates alternative fuel source cars, such as Biodiesel, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, Natural Gas, Ethanol (e85), and Hybrid. I choose this topic when I realized how much people are paying for a fuel (gasoline) that only gives you 30% efficiency per gallon. This means that for every $100.00 that you spend on gas, you are wasting $70.00.
I bet you didn't know that the first cars made were all mostly electric. But as time passed gas powered cars became more popular through the years. There were few if any electric cars available as timed moved on. Everyone believed that gas powered vehicles were more convenient than the electric powered ones. I believe that gas powered vehicles are better because gas powered cars have more function ability. The range that electric vehicles have is poor compared to gas vehicles. Electric vehicles don't function very well when the weather is cold. You'll need to charge your car pretty much every night. You are only going to be able to go 80 mph. If you go up a big hill your range goes down. electric vehicles (rather ev's) do pollute but they don't pollute the same way that gas cars pollute.
My position on this paper is that electric cars are better and my opponents therefore take the position that the traditional gasoline cars are better for the society, because that´s what is currently being widely used. They give the reason that electric car´s benefits are not balanced with its negative aspects, and that we are overrating the benefits of electric cars. In response to their reason that gasoline cars are what’s been widely used until today, once fossil fuel and such resources runs out, we will be forced to make a switch to using alternative energy. Therefore, we should be proactive, and make the switch before we run out of gasoline, so we can be more prepared for the change. The opponents also argue that the environmental benefits aren’t very significant, but as time goes on, and all the consequences will build up and hit us hard if we don’t do something about it. Thus we should do every little thing to reduce our air pollution, and preserve the
At some point in everyone’s lives, we are affected by the rising gas prices in today’s economy. Natural gas is not a renewable resource, since there is a fixed amount of it trapped in the Earth. However, many people carry the misconception that there is a very limited amount of natural gas, and that we may use all of it up. This isn’t true. The gas shortages of the 1970's were prompted by the government’s lack of faith in the industry’s ability to discover and develop new reserves, not by lack of gas supply. The unfortunate impression left by the shortages of gas in the 1970's caused the people to believe that there was a small amount of gas left. On the contrary, the gas resource base is vast, and probably even larger than currently estimated. People are often confused by the difference in "proved reserves", those that could be economically produced with the current technology, and the total natural gas resource base.
Through my research I found out about the links between everyday tasks and the significant increase of carbon emissions being released into the sky. I was also able to understand that even our desires to reduce and eradicate environmental hazards caused by fuel may present themselves to be difficult, as humans themselves have to change their views and perceptions to what they are attracted to. As with fuel, researching and developing better methods of how to utilize more efficient ways of gaining alternative efficient fuels and producing energy on cheaper rates, should be the main priority of our society. Without fuel man would not have progressed this far, and with that saying this study will conclude.
Today, people try to find resources that do not impact on the ozone, or cost a large amount of money. Moreover, most people are not happy with unclean air, which causes an unhealthy environment to live in, and one of the reasons that make unclean air is a fossil fuel. There are millions of cars run daily, so they make the area impure; therefore, the electric cars are the solution for this problem. Electric cars powered by electric motors, and using renewable energy instead of gasoline, are more helpful. One author argues that electric cars are more useful than traditional cars to protect the environment, especially when they depend on the source that used.
With a gasoline-fueled vehicle, buying gas to operate your car is a never-ending process. With the high price change of gasoline and oil, operating a gasoline-fueled vehicle tends to be very costly. While there are some types of small gasoline vehicles that get much better gas mileage than larger vehicles, even the most powerful gasoline cars will normally desire a contribution every month. According to some experts the only way a mainstream market for green vehicles wills materlize is with a pronounced and prolonged rise in fuel prices. (Buss, 4)
A problem that comes from the extraction of oil is that the outcome of vast quantity of non-renewable water. 1.8 billion litres of toxic water is produced each day by Alberta’s oil sands (Bone, 2014). The extraction of bitumen that is extracted from Alberta’s oil sands, requires large amounts of water and heat to separate the oil from the bitumen; this process is produces huge amounts of toxic waste, which cannot be released back into the local rivers and lakes, and therefore is drained into huge tailing ponds and ultimately be stored there for an indefinite time (Bone, 2014). The companies has to increase the size of existing tailing ponds or create new ones to make room to store the large amounts of toxic waters. Leakage from these ponds has a negative effect on the environment (ex. Landscape. Groundwater, surface water, rivers, etc). Although Alberta leads in the oil industry in Canada, it also leads in the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Furthermore, drilling for oil through open-pit mining disfigures the industrial landscape, taking a toll on the organisms that once lived there. Another factor is the imbalance of PH levels in the soils, which affect plants and microorganisms. Near the Alberta oil sand operational area, there are high concentrations of contaminates from the oil sands. Based on research investigation, there is increasing evidence that “there have been significant environmental
This fossil fuel dependent world today runs on one very important thing. It is not gas, but we will get back to that. No, the thing more important to our modern lifestyle is CHEAP plastics. Look around you for just a second and count all of the different items that have a plastic component. From the packaging of almost every item we buy, to almost every item we actually buy, plastic is present. For all of these products to be affordable, the plastic used must be cheap. As oil becomes scarcer, the first major blow to the economy will not be at the gas pumps, but in the cost of society’s
When people think pollution, most think straight to automobiles producing harmful emissions which contribute to global warming or climate change. Well, this is true. Motor vehicles account for about half of the toxic air pollutant emissions in the United States. A large part of these toxic air pollutants is the need to rely on oil as a fuel source. The fact that oil is still the main source of energy for things like automobiles, when there are other alternatives like electric vehicles, creates many problems within our society. The United States’ dependency on oil causes incidents like the Deepwater Horizon. The estimated amount of oil released stood at 4.9 million barrels and polluted the area significantly. We as a country need to cut down on our dependency on oil and a few steps in that direction include stepping away from fuel inefficient automobiles. Automobiles are one of the biggest contributing factors to the oil dependency of the United States, and they are also one of the largest pollution causes also. The pollution from automobiles became so bad that the United States had to pass the Clean Air Act in 1970 which forced a series of rules to reduce pollution from vehicle exhaust, refueling emissions and evaporating gasoline. The act had to be amended two more times in 1977 and 1990 to set more goals in addressing hazardous air pollutants. Even though the Clean Air Act helped control the pollution a bit, it still did not fix the underlying problem: the U.S.’s fixation on oil and gasoline vehicles. Due to high environmental pollution, we should move away from the traditional gasoline automobiles and instead look for greener alternatives like electric or hybrid vehicles and improved public transportation.