The Pros And Cons Of Carpooling

“World consumption has been on a steady rise for decades and neared 94 million barrels a day in 2014. Estimates from the U.S. Energy Information Administration sees the number increasing by another million barrels a day by the end of next year” NewsMax. "That’s the equivalent of draining an Olympic-size swimming pool every 15 seconds" Tertzakian. 57% of all the oil that is used in the U.S. is imported and 70% of all the oil used in the U.S. is used for transportation according to American Energy Independence. “The U.S. transportation sector consumes about 220 billion gallons of liquid hydrocarbon fuel per year” Energy Information Center. The energy used by the “transportation sector” is usually for passenger travel and for moving freights. Passenger

The entire world contributes to the carbon emissions but there are ways we can use less gases to help decrease the amount we use. One way is carpooling. Carpooling can help decrease the amount of carbon emissions we make by having less cars on the road to make carbon emissions. Carpooling also saves you money. Other ways are using alternative fuel sources. Some alternative fuel sources are biodiesel, ethanol, hydrogen etc. There are also cars that use other things like electricity or less fuel. These can be cheaper than just petroleum and less harmful to the environment. “HEVs [hybrid electric vehicle] typically achieve better fuel economy and have lower fuel costs than similar conventional vehicles. For example, the 2016 Honda Civic Hybrid has an EPA combined city-and-highway fuel economy estimate of 45 miles per gallon, while the estimate for the conventional 2015 Civic (four cylinder, automatic) is 35 miles per gallon” afdc. In this day and age we are getting better at carbon emissions and fuel usage but we have a long way to go to achieve almost no carbon emissions, if that will ever