... gain even better acceleration than using gasoline. The use of a smaller engine by hybrid cars saves space and significantly reduces the weight of the car allowing for better mileage while driving. While gasoline powered cars use twice the power and have twice the engine size of hybrid cars. People ... who drive gasoline powered cars can only gain good mileage from there cars by the manner which they drive their car. This is due to air drag and other technical issues that deal with cars but the thing is that hybrid cars already have this advantage due ... to the use of both batteries and...

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... benefit the owners. Air pollution due to cars affects the air we breathe, the ozone layer, water, and soil. Driving a gas run car involves combustion of fossil fuels where gases are emitted that affect the environment. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, more than half of ... air pollution in the USA is caused by mobile sources, mainly automobiles (EPA). When a car's engine is on, gases are emitted into the air such as carbon dioxide which is a greenhouse gas, hydrocarbons, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and ... cars differ from gasoline cars in many ways. Standard...

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... into the atmosphere. Using public transportation, walking or biking to school or work, or if you must drive, join a carpool and use a car that gets high mileage are suggested to lower carbon dioxide levels. The EDS also recommends using energy-efficient appliances in your house, weatherizing your ... oil and gasoline, and that we should still limit the burning of even natural gases. It is also suggested that the government should create car-less cities, where citizens can only walk, ride bikes or use public transportation to get around inside the city. Yet another suggestion is ... an af...

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... into the atmosphere. Using public transportation, walking or biking to school or work, or if you must drive, join a carpool and use a car that gets high mileage are suggested to lower carbon dioxide levels. The EDS also recommends using energy-efficient appliances in your house, weatherizing your ... oil and gasoline, and that we should still limit the burning of even natural gases. It is also suggested that the government should create car-less cities, where citizens can only walk, ride bikes or use public transportation to get around inside the city. Yet another suggestion is ... an af...

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... into the atmosphere. Using public transportation, walking or biking to school or work, or if you must drive, join a carpool and use a car that gets high mileage are suggested to lower carbon dioxide levels. The EDS also recommends using energy-efficient appliances in your house, weatherizing your ... oil and gasoline, and that we should still limit the burning of even natural gases. It is also suggested that the government should create car-less cities, where citizens can only walk, ride bikes or use public transportation to get around inside the city. Yet another suggestion is ... an af...

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... into the atmosphere. Using public transportation, walking or biking to school or work, or if you must drive, join a carpool and use a car that gets high mileage are suggested to lower carbon dioxide levels. The EDS also recommends using energy-efficient appliances in your house, weatherizing your ... oil and gasoline, and that we should still limit the burning of even natural gases. It is also suggested that the government should create car-less cities, where citizens can only walk, ride bikes or use public transportation to get around inside the city. Yet another suggestion is ... an af...

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... electric and hybrid cars. The human perception of electric cars is that they are impractical because they cannot go far or fast enough to fulfill their everyday commuting needs. A hybrid car, on the other hand, is a vehicle that powered by two or more sources. But like most concept cars, it is the public they have to convince that owning one of ... they continue to comply with the emission standards, Manufacturers must recall and fix (free of charge) those vehicles which do not comply. Emission warranty which is a program given you, as a car owner, certain rights covered by the emission...

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... ways Capitalism has been harmful is that it promotes an unhealthy materialism. (See paper on Materialism) Materialism creates a larger interest in material possesions and comfort than in spiritual values. This car commercial (above) exhibits how shallow Americans have become. 50 years ago, cars were a means of transportation not impressions. But since technology introduced faster, sportier and advanced cars, automobile companies have ... to keep advancing too. So they play on our emotions and try to sell us a car that we think will make us look good as we drive through the mountains of ...

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... , etc. Individual Action These are a few things that people could do themselves to reduce pollution and help preserve our environment:  Keep your vehicle in good condition or buy a new car. Cars built after 1994 emit much less pollution than older models because they have to have a catalytic converter fitted. Cars contribute about one-third of the emissions that cause ground ... -level ozone pollution.  Use a bicycle or walk to do errands or to commute to work rather than a car.  Bring your own bags to the supermarket; buy used goods; attempt to throw away nearly nothing.  Sav...

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... for our cars alone. To save on the carbon usage for travel by both cars I decided that we could cut down the driving to one vehicle, and perhaps set up a car pool between me and other moms for my son's football team. Not to mention we have big family and not only does one of our kids have an outside activity ... but all four. So setting up a car pool could save about 8,000lbs of co2 a year. Most households use both gas and electricity, but not my family, were primarily electricity users. Which I found that we use about 32 ... ...

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... is powered by the pressure made from the air and fuel mixture. In order to create this pressure, the engine only requires 10 milligrams of gasoline per one combustion stroke. A car uses a fuel mixture of 12:1 ratio of air and fuel under normal operations (Halderman Automotive 195). Sometimes the fuel/air mixture can be lean or rich. When the mixture is ... lean, the fuel ratio is considered lower than what is required. Rich mixtures have more fuel than the combustion process requires. With a rich fuel mixture, the car runs very smokily, or poorly. During any of these conditions, vehicle...

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... Folker Your walking alone in the woods one day and you realize it is about to rain soon. So you hurry as you try to make it back to your car before the rain comes, but as you are running you hear the little thumps on the leaves in the trees above you. Then you feel a sharp burning sensation on your ... our part to the fight. We must make more awareness of the problem and as citizens, to reduce sulfur and nitrogen emission we must reduce the use of fossil fuels. Car pools, public transportation, or walking can reduce nitrogen oxide emissions. Acid rain is a big problem. Not only does it ...

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... caused death in many animal species and changed the life of many peoples. Now, thousands of years later, the earth is starting to heat up again. This may be from car exhaust, factory fumes and the cutting down of rain forests. This might cause many problems for our planet such as higher water levels that might eventually cover entire islands. Other ... of a tree. Trees take in CO2 and give out oxygen into the air. When people start cutting down and killing trees, the more we should worry about factory fumes, and car exhaust. When people cut down trees, they arent just stopping the produ...

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... secondary school students, which questioned their modes of transport travelling to and from school. Of the people questioned it showed that just 1 in 4 students caught the bus and for both car pooling and walking, it was just one in 12. As for the people who were driven to school (over 50%) six in every seven had the option of catching a bus ... concerning pollutants produced by cars can, and will pose enormous threats to the future of our environment. It has been predicted from past recordings, that within the next thirty years car usage will double resulting in an increase of pollutio...

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... take for granted or just haven't noticed it was there, The usage of copper is in increasing, in the 1970s a car was made up of 35 pounds of copper and today it has increased to about 50 - 90 pounds of copper in 1 car. The Gold Industry is also a big industry today, golds main uses are in coinage, jewellery, electronics, dentistry and decorative ... ...

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... energy efficient, use renewable power like wind farms and solar energy, avoiding processed foods and eating organic foods, recycling and reducing the amount of waste we produce, driving a fuel efficient car and even just properly maintaining existing cars. With all of the negative impacts on the earth we learned about throughout the course it was good to know that there were ... ...

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... be able to relieve traffic jams. If more people use buses and trams, it means diminishing the number of cars on the road. Thus, it will reduce the risk of car accidents as well. Not to mention the fact that, drivers should be required to use unleaded petrol instead of fuel. Then, finally, we should plant as many trees in the ... ...

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... electronics (i.e. computers, televisions, heaters, I- homes, and air conditioners) off instead of leaving them in stand- by can help make the world better. Kashmira Lad realized that by properly maintaining her car, changing the air filter, oil, and keeping the tires inflated, she not only reduced her cars gas emissions, she got better miles per gallon (MPG). With better gas mileage you ... ...

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... of the simplest option is just turning off the lights when you leave a room. Another very easy thing to do is you could use other sources of transportation than your car. Driving is one of the worst sources of pollution, according to Melanie J. Martin of Homeguides.com. Fuel production itself creates a significant amount of emissions, which drivers support by filling up ... ...

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... green power, or you can modify your house to generate your own green power. As for traveling, take care of your vehicles and maintain them to reduce their emissions. Many car companies are making electric cars, and are making fuel cars more efficient. The best way to help is to spread awareness and make sure everyone in the community is doing ... ...

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... has recently been the first to be successful at refining this algal "green crude" into a high-octane gasoline chemically identical to conventional fuels, and capable of being used in any car made today with no engine modification. The project was stopped in 1996, when crude oil prices dropped, but has recently been revived. Investors are writing huge checks. Many see algae ... ...

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... a new barrel. Longer barrels are more accurate, and prevent balls from breaking in the barrel. CP makes great barrels, or if you have a Model 98, buy a Flatline. Like "hooking up" a car there are many options to "trick out" your gun, and equipment. See your local Pro Shop, and visit online sites for advise and purchases. A good shop is Global Paintball in ... ...

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... the main cause of pollution from sulfuric and nitric oxides, there is only little that can be done. By buying energy efficient appliances, choosing to ride the bus instead of a car, or even adding insulation to a house are all ways to conserve energy (Encarta). If less fossil fuels are burned, less energy is used. Another way to help is to switch ... ...

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The greenhouse effect occurs when gases such as methane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide and CFCs trap heat in the atmosphere by acting as a pane of glass in a car. The glass lets the sun light in to make heat but when the heat tries to get out the gases absorb the heat. Holding this heat in causes heat waves, ... ...

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... change the way that they live day-to-day, the environment will become progressively worse. There have been a number of attempts to better the environment such as public transportation and car pool lanes but this is only drop in the bucket. Until Americans begin to utilize these opportunities, make conscientious efforts to become more educated about the impact of their actions ... ...

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