... order to keep the pollution rates lower, hybrid cars should be used. Hybrid cars use an alternative energy source to power the car. Instead of using normal fuel to power cars, hybrid cars use fossil fuel energy to energize the car. Electric cars have also been introduced to society, but not many people have taken the initiative to step up and get ... them to help the environment. An electric car uses nothing but electric to power the car. The car is stored with multiple rechargeable batteries to power the car. When the car gets low, it is just like ... a normal car, it has to be reener...

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... the environment, economy and the consumer. According to UCS, the fuel cell of the future promises to be 98-100 percent cleaner than today's car, offering major air quality benefits to smog-choked regions of the country. In the dirtiest US cites, the economic value of zeroing out pollution with ... these vehicles could total anywhere between $4000 to $8000 per car over its lifetime(salon). Fuel cells have an important role in mitigating the growing impacts of global climate change. When running on renewable fuels, FC ... from 0-60 miles in less than 12 seconds, and achieve 70-80 miles pe...

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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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... there is one way we can conserve Petroleum. I think that we should focus on building more of cars such as gasoline-electric Hybrids. The gasoline-electric hybrid car is just a cross between a gasoline-powered car and an electric car. This type of cars will save a lot of Petroleum and also not put pollution in the air. I believe that it would be better if ... ...

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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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... 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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... the budget line by line and gave their suggestions. Corporations on the Dole? The Bush administration has proposed to spend $1.5 billion over a five-year period to develop the hydrogen-powered car. The Clinton administration before that spent more than $1 billion to create hybrid (gas and electric) cars. But companies like Honda and Toyota have brought the cars to the market even ... 10 years. In 1997, the General Accounting Office gave $7.1 billion in subsidies to Ethanol agribusinesses. And the $710 million budget for research into the hydrogen fuel cells for the "freedom car" which r...

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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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Problem Statement The new car on the market is a hybrid one. Hybrid cars are powered not only by conventional fuel, fossil fuel, but also by electricity which it generates during everyday driving. These cars are ... have left, and how long until it's gone? Assumptions Hydrogen fuel cells have been the topic of big auto corporations for some time now. Many of them advocate the hybrid car as being the answer to the diminishing fossil fuels. However, they are a temporary solution to the main problem of using no fossil fuels. Most of the criticism about hydrogen fuel ... ...

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... that you will receive comes from that one small candle you are forced to use. You have wasted half your morning looking for light that you must rush to your car. As you begin to drive you realize, "almost empty, better refuel" but the local gas stations display signs that say NO GAS- CLOSED PERMANENTLY. You must abandon your ... car on the side of the street. It is useless to you now. So you begin to walk to your work which takes you one hour to do. You have now ... ...

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... economy based on fossil fuels to an alternative one is not going to be an easy one. Before cars using hydrogen fuel cells becomes available to the general populace, the car companies need to increase production which in turn will longer cost. The government needs to also encourage purchases with tax benefits on purchasing a H.F.C.V. They need to prove themselves in reliability ... 's need to be invented. Pros and Cons I believe the hydrogen fuel cell automobile is the future of the industry. There still is technological advances needed and financial backing by the car industry, energy pr...

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... also being converted into dual-fuel vehicles, using either natural gas or gasoline. A refillable natural gas tank, which can power an automobile about 250 miles, can be easily stored in a car's trunk (ChemCom, 226). Coal is another option. Our nation's supply of known coal reserves is much greater then those of petroleum. Another possible alternative is liquid fuel produced from coal ... ...

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... garbage is being disposed into the rivers and ocean which pollutes the water and kills the aquatic water forms. The increase in population leads to increase in more factories and car use which causes the more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is also known as "Greenhouse Gas." The Greenhouse Gases trap the heat in the atmosphere which leads to ... ...

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... from rising further we must increase our use of renewable energy and become more energy efficient here are some possible solutions. Solutions Local Always recycle your rubbish. Only use the car if you have to. Switch the TV off if your not watching it. Switch off all electronics. National Disposes of rubbish properly by recycling. Raise the petrol taxes. Renewable energy ... ...

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... the road has led to increased traffic on ours roads, and as a result, an increase in wasted energy. When sitting in traffic, the engine is still running even though the car is not moving, producing energy that is not used but simply released in the environment. The cold, frigid winters of Canada mean that households must turn up their heaters in ... ...

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... electrical to heat and light. For example you desk lamp changes the electrical energy you give it to heat and light. You could also change chemical energy to kinetic in a car. Wave, tidal, hydroelectric, biomass, solar and wind are all renewable sources of energy. Wave energy is using fixed and floating devices to take the energy from the waves and turn ... ...

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... green growth. I will apply it more sparingly if at all in the future. To help with carbon and nitrogen being put into the atmosphere, I can drive less, get a fuel efficient car, and make sure the windows are covered in both winter and summer. This will reduce the amount of oil I need to keep my house. I will also use more fans instead ... ...

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... green growth. I will apply it more sparingly if at all in the future. To help with carbon and nitrogen being put into the atmosphere, I can drive less, get a fuel efficient car, and make sure the windows are covered in both winter and summer. This will reduce the amount of oil I need to keep my house. I will also use more fans instead ... ...

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... fuel cell is much more efficient than the internal combustion engine. A hydrogen fuel cell converts about 80% of the chemical energy of the fuel into the kinetic energy of the car (Mustoe 551)." This would solve pollution problems and revolutionize the automobile industry. How does a fuel cell work? A fuel cell is made up of two thin, porous electrodes which both have ... ...

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