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So the world has been thinking about the oil crisis and how to stop the polar bears from getting themselves crew cuts and moving down to the tropics. Sure, you might say it's not your problem, but if ’em number-crunching men in white coats have got it right, you'd need to sprout a pair of gills at the back of your ears very soon - the polar ice caps are melting and the oceans are rising.
Automobiles are apparently the highest contributors to the global warming problem. That's because they burn fossil fuels and release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere that prevents the heat from escaping, but I'm guessing you know all of that already. Internal combustion engines haven't evolved much and quite frankly, they didn’t need to simply because they did what they were asked to do, albeit a bit inefficiently. About a mere 20 per cent of useable force is produced after the internal combustion engine guzzles down all that fuel!
The solution, although half baked if you ask me, are electric vehicles that use the sparky stuff to get your wheels rolling - half baked because you're simply sweeping away the garbage into somebody else's backyard. Sure, electric vehicles don't emit exhaust gases and are way cleaner than fossil fuel driven automobiles, but they do run on electricity that is produced by burning coal and even scary, from nuclear power plants.
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