Replacing fossil fuels with biofuel has the potential to generate a number of benefits. In contrast to fossil fuels, which are exhaustible resources, biofuels are produced from renewable feedstocks. ... The tax charges a fee on fossil fuels based on how much carbon they emit when burned. ... It will raise fossil fuel prices. It's an antidote to rigged energy pricing that helps fossil fuels destabilize earth's climate. ...

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Government Policies The science of how burning carbon-based fuels discharges greenhouse gasses are understood. Hydrocarbons, the general category for various kinds of fossil fuels when kindled as a basis of energy, whether running automobiles, manufacturing plants, trains, or coal-fired power plants, create greenhouse gasses that are encompassed by carbon dioxide and water. ... There are numeral steps, which must be taken to reduce greenhouse gasses, and two climate policies are necessary to fix the concerns in the marketplace for fossil-based fuels. ... The two climate policies are the imple...

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"CO2 is major human-caused greenhouse gas (GHG), and the Cox density increase mainly comes from the consumption of fossil fuels (Lin and Li 2011)." In 2004, CO2 took 76 percent of the global GHG emissions with fossil fuel consumption. ... The proposal is to reduce the fossil fuel and carbon emissions. ... It also could helped development the renewable energy and cut down the consumption of fossil fuel used (Wissema and Dellink 2007). ... In the research, carbon tax did not reduce the consumption of fossil fuel and natural gas cause the carbon tax rate lower. ...

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At the rate that we are using up our fossil fuels and other nonrenewable resources, we will have exhausted our limited supplies by the time much of our generation's grandchildren are even born! Not to mention how our selfish pursuit of fossil fuels is directly affecting the environment itself. ... It is no secret that fossil fuels such as natural gases, crude oil, and coal are finite, and that it's only a matter of time before we exhaust our extremely limited supplies of these resources. ... These chemicals are known as greenhouse gases; some of the most common ways in which greenhou...

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The extraction and the utilization of fossil fuels is the main contributing factor to climate change. ... This twofold implication of fossil fuel usage somehow creates a paradoxical situation where one is torn between what should be done and what should not be done (Gardiner, Stephen M, 2006, p. 400). ... On the other hand, going ahead with fossil fuel usage will destroy the environment and this will compromise the existence of the future generations. ... The main contributant of carbon IV oxide is the burning of fossil fuels which constitutes a 75% portion. ... Reports place the figures at ar...

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The main causes of this warming is thought to be the burning of fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and natural gas, which release carbon dioxide and other substances known as greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. ... Humans rise the amount of carbon dioxide released to the atmosphere when they burn fossil fuels, solid wastes, drive vehicles, and generate electricity by the burning of coal. ...

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Fossil fuels emit another 5.8 billion metric tons of CO2 into the air each ear, while the burning of tropical rainforests emits roughly 1.8 billion metric tons of CO2 - both contributing to a buildup of carbon dioxide that will soon trigger the greenhouse effect." ... Through actions such as fossil fuels and deforestation, green house gases are produced (Carbon dioxide, methane, ozone and others). ...

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Is anyone apprehensive about how the environment will be years to come? Nearly every day there is news about the environment based on jam-packed landfills, polluted water, and reduced air quality, leading to different temperatures and bipolar climate changes known as global warming. Global warming i...

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In a consumer society such as ours, economic gain is at the top of our priority list. With that in mind, people are turning elsewhere to find a way to maximize profits when it comes to drilling for our precious fossil fuels. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, seems to be the answer to many people. O...

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The topic of environmentalism doesn't come up to frequently but when it does it causes quite a stir as to who is to pick up the tab. Our interaction with this earth occurs simultaneously. With every breath we take. Currently we pollute the air and waterways in means of economic growth "Some environm...

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