Hybrid cars have been introduced to the USA in 1999. Hybrid cars differ from gasoline cars in many ways. ... A hybrid car is a combination of a gasoline powered car and electric powered car. ... Hybrid cars are more affordable than gas powered cars in the long term. ... If more people drove hybrid cars instead of gas powered cars, the conditions of the environment would tremendously improve mostly in the air. ...

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This may be from car exhaust, factory fumes and the cutting down of rain forests. ... Many mass production factories emit a lot of CFCs into the atmosphere, as do cars. ... When people start cutting down and killing trees, the more we should worry about factory fumes, and car exhaust. ...

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"People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can feel in the course of their daily lives, it will be too late to prevent much larger, potentially catastrophic changes." (Kolbert, The New Yorker, 2005). What is Global Warming? Glo...

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This new concept is starting to become main stream in hybrid cars and the automotive world in which the hybrid cars can gain power and recharge the batteries while the car is using gasoline. If a person stops at some traffic lights, the car turns off the engine and runs off the battery that is in the car and once the car reaches 20 mph it turns the gasoline engine part of the car back on. ... 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 dr...

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Imagine when you walk on the street, you smell disgusting tints of exhaust emission from various private cars. ... People who own cars may experience the pain of paying so much for the gas and parking fees and the violation fees if any. ... Also, there is dedicated bus lane on the road, which means bus may travel faster than private cars because of less traffic jam. ... Moreover, it prevents the driving fatigue because people do not have to keep focus on the road situation as they in private cars. A recent research shows that private cars contribute almost 90% to the waste emissions and noise....

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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 the Shenandoah Valley. The ad wants us to picture how this car will look sitting outside of our house. ...

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Global warming is caused when factories and cars burn fossil fuels and let off carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. ... Causes Two of the main causes for global warming are cars and factories. ... Cars let off fumes from petrol that go up into the atmosphere. ... Only use the car if you have to. ...

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It was also found that cars were the main producer of the harmful chemicals, carbon monoxide or CO (91%) and nitric oxide or NO (82%). ... Each of these forms of transport is beneficial to the environment and can reduce the concentrations of the atmospheric pollutants emitted by cars. ... 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. ... The effects of the highly concerning pollutants produced by cars can, and will pose enormous threats to the future of our environment. It has been predicted from past r...

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Maybe instead of driving our very polluting, gas guzzler cars, we can switch to a Prius or perhaps riding our bike to work and school. ... For example, switching your car to an electric one. It is true with the fact that it will reduce the cost of buying gallons of gasoline to fuel your car. But ask yourself this, "How do you think electric companies get the electricity that now powers your car?" Jon Gabriel, author of "Electric Cars Bring Unintended Consequences to California" mentions, "When people boast of plugging in a car, they seem to think electricity comes fro...

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Our vehicles together approximately use 30,000lbs of co2 a year 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. ... So setting up a car pool could save about 8,000lbs of co2 a year. ...

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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....

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Platonic Dialogue (global warming is harmful and should be stopped) Q: Does global warming exist? A: Yes, the National Academy of Sciences web site states that "Surface temperature measurements recorded daily at hundreds of locations for more than 100 years indicate that the Earth's surfa...

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Cars are powered by a number of fluids and emit harmful gases which are toxic to humans and animals. ... An efficient fix to these harmful emissions would be switching to all electric cars that do not use any type of fuel besides electricity so there will not be any carbon emissions from millions of cars daily. ...

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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). ... For instance, why take several cars to the same location with one or two people in each, when you could fill each vehicle full and only take two cars. ...

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Will Cars in the Future Run on Green Gas? ... While it's easy to produce an algae biodiesel, a California company 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. ...

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Americans don't want to live without their everyday luxuries and they refuse to give up driving their big, gas burning vehicles, let alone turning off the air conditioner in their cars and offices when it is hot. ... 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. ...

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Humans are responsible for a variety of environmental problems, but we can also take steps to reduce the damage that we are causing not only to our city but also to the planet. Today, I would like to discuss environmental problems and the measures that the government and individuals can take to addr...

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The reuse and recycling of newspapers, aluminum, and other materials, along with the reduction of cars would help with the smog and land fills that pollute the world today. The world has evolved and the preventions of air pollution have evolved, but so has the need for technology and comforts such as cars and air conditioning. ...

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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 h...

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Make vehicles more efficient by (a) increasing fuel economy standards by 4 percent annually; (b) producing one million American-made plug-in hybrid cars with the capacity of 150 miles/gallon by 2015; and (c) making $4 billion in retooling tax credits and loan guarantees for auto and parts makers. 5. ...

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Emissions are gases released into the air by natural or man-made processes that produce electricity or other forms of energy. Emissions can be produced by heat, light or even by smell. Emissions that are produced by humans are largely responsible for air pollution, climate change, and the increasing...

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A million years ago, when dinosaurs were in existence, the earth consisted of diverse tropical trees and swamps. It was an ideal state for the formation of fossil fuels. At the time, dinosaurs died along with various plants and decomposed deep in the Earth's crust layer upon layer. The layers gradua...

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During the past one hundred years global warming has caused the temperature of Earth to rise. Since 1900 life span has doubled, manufacturing has increased, and gases have multiplied. Scientists believe that the drastic increase of greenhouse gases could lead to an increase in the average temperatur...

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Another very easy thing to do is you could use other sources of transportation than your car. ... " They say that their main goals were to, reduce emissions from cars and trucks, increase the range of energy efficient products and improve the air we breathe indoors. ...

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The rise of the consumer culture is a phenomenon characterizing the 20th and 21st centuries, where the economy depends on the population's spending on goods and services. Before the Industrial Revolution – that is, before the 18th century in England, or the 19th century in Western Europe and No...

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