Petroleum Products, Should People Continue To Drive Gasoline-Fueled Vehicles? Why Or Why Not?
Considering all the environmental effects of producing and consuming petroleum products, should people continue to drive gasoline-powered vehicles? Why or why not?
Why driving gasoline-powered vehicles is neither sustainable nor compulsory
Human activities, such as driving petrol-powered cars, are the major driver of global warming. As a result increasing temperatures endanger our health as well the ecosystems and cause increasingly common impacts such as record high temperatures, rising seas, and severe flooding and droughts.
Evidently, carbon dioxide (CO2) is the main heat-trapping gas responsible for the dramatic increase of the average warming over the past several decades. Nevertheless, in 2016 45.8% of all new passenger cars registered …show more content…
According to a report from the Union of Concerned Scientists (2017), 2.1 % of new cars in Western Europe are hybrid electric vehicles (HEV), 1.5 % are electrically chargeable vehicles (ECV) and 1.2 % ran on other alternative fuels (such as LPG, natural gas and E85). These data are comprehensible considering the effort for research about the sustainability of an alternative vehicle in comparison with gasoline-powered vehicles as well as the additional expenses such as the way of getting power supply for your car and the costs. Some of you might say, that there is still no evidence for reaching a decrease of global warming or climate change by using alternative vehicles. Even though this is true research has shown that the direct impact on the environment caused by gasoline-powered vehicles is more dramatic. However, some car dealers have special offers in case of buying an alternative car instead of a gasoline-powered one. So, if you do not buy an alternative vehicle by reason of sustainability due to lack of evidence, there are still financial incentives to make you think about it or you could abstain from driving a car and use public transport. In the end, there is still the possibility of car
Why driving gasoline-powered vehicles is neither sustainable nor compulsory
Human activities, such as driving petrol-powered cars, are the major driver of global warming. As a result increasing temperatures endanger our health as well the ecosystems and cause increasingly common impacts such as record high temperatures, rising seas, and severe flooding and droughts.
Evidently, carbon dioxide (CO2) is the main heat-trapping gas responsible for the dramatic increase of the average warming over the past several decades. Nevertheless, in 2016 45.8% of all new passenger cars registered …show more content…
According to a report from the Union of Concerned Scientists (2017), 2.1 % of new cars in Western Europe are hybrid electric vehicles (HEV), 1.5 % are electrically chargeable vehicles (ECV) and 1.2 % ran on other alternative fuels (such as LPG, natural gas and E85). These data are comprehensible considering the effort for research about the sustainability of an alternative vehicle in comparison with gasoline-powered vehicles as well as the additional expenses such as the way of getting power supply for your car and the costs. Some of you might say, that there is still no evidence for reaching a decrease of global warming or climate change by using alternative vehicles. Even though this is true research has shown that the direct impact on the environment caused by gasoline-powered vehicles is more dramatic. However, some car dealers have special offers in case of buying an alternative car instead of a gasoline-powered one. So, if you do not buy an alternative vehicle by reason of sustainability due to lack of evidence, there are still financial incentives to make you think about it or you could abstain from driving a car and use public transport. In the end, there is still the possibility of car