... corporations affiliated with the automobile industry thus satisfy lust for money. However, the collateral damage of this love or obsession is virtually invisible. Consequently, mobile sources contribute significantly to air pollution. On a daily basis thousands of cars line the roads in Utah, each one doing its part to pollute and contaminate the air we breathe. In fact, driving a car is ... probably a person's single most polluting daily activity. On a national scale mobile sources are accountable for nearly 75% of carbon monoxide pollution. Statistics show that persons residing in the...

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... into account the emissions from the power plants that generate the electricity to recharge EV batteries. It is much more efficient to control air pollution from a single power plant rather than from many individual automobiles. Electric vehicles with cleaner air as a byproduct, will improve the air quality ... The emissions that come out of a vehicle depend greatly on the fuel that goes into it. Consequently, programs to control air toxics pollution have centered around changing fuel composition as well as around improving vehicle technology or performance. One of the first, and most suc...

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... of the art devices for capturing and treating exhaust gases, and require oil refiners to produces a low-sulfur diesel fuel required for anti-pollution devices. An EPA administrator announced last August two, cost-effective clean air programs that reduce pollution from diesel engine. The new standards will provide a long term improvements in the nation's air quality. The agency said "both new diesel ... and lost workdays, according to the government." The diesel fuel used in off-road equipment has a high-sulfur contain of 3,000 parts per million that clogs anti-pollution devices, and con...

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... of gasoline are burned each and every day. At first glance, this seems like an efficient energy source, but upon closer consideration, it becomes obvious that the cost "pollution--dramatically overshadows the benefits. The outdated technology of the internal combustion engine, the apparatus used to convert this "magic liquid- into energy, is the sole culprit responsible for gasoline's ... and running a car engine and cause eye irritation, congestion, wheezing, shortness of breath, permanent lung damage, and acid rain. They also react with Nitrogen Oxides in sunlight to form ground level ...

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... plants can be harvested without their destruction. Short rotation trees, for example, can be harvested every few years by a process known as "coppicing," or cutting of a plant low to the ground so that it can re-grow. Low carbon organic crops, the type of biomass that produces the least amount of carbon emissions, can then be grown in large quantities and ... has its disadvantages as well. The very nature of biomass energy requires that it be burned and even if the organic material is low-carbon, it will still emit some pollution and carbon emissions. Another disadvantage is that biomas...

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... sells at the pump in the United States for about $0.30 per liter. "However estimates of real cost of burning a liter of gasoline range from $1.06 to $1.32, when production, pollution and other external cost are included- (1998, Worldwatch institute, WWW). Therefore based on these calculations hydrogen fuel may eventually become competitive. Although this statement seems to me to be somewhat ... safe than gasoline, if safety prescriptions are not violated, in case of an accident hydrogen would quickly evaporate and ascend in the atmosphere, while gasoline would stay spilled on the ground...

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