Do we have to stop all global warming causes right now? Good luck. Big corporations like Exxon Mobil and Saudi Aramco can’t allow us to quit emitting carbon dioxide into our environment because that will mean we aren’t burning coal, gas, and oil, which also means they won’t be making their hundreds of billions of dollars annually. We have to look past these corporations towards bettering our planet. To focus this idea more, let’s look at one question: In what ways are automobile transportation emissions affecting our environment and what new technologies are being invented and used to help solve this environmental …show more content…
But why don’t we see very many of them out on the roads? The first, and most significant, reason is that these alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) are much too expensive. These AFV’s use very new technologies and cannot be produced in large quantities yet because these technologies are expensive. The producers of these AFV’s (Nissan, Chevrolet, Tesla…) do not get large profits from making massive amounts of these cars. AFVs are unfortunately for only a select audience. That is why only one percent of cars that drive on our roads, as of 2008, are AFVs