Worried about gasoline price? Not if you know the alternatives.
Cars were invented to use gasoline. So we end using gasoline like there is no alternatives.
One hundred and fifty years ago, the internal combustion engine was introduced. Since then human society has been using gasoline like crazy. The efficiency of that engine, and the convenience of gasoline utilisation actually helped much of world progress in the 20th century.
Unfortunately, gasoline is not unlimited. It is produced naturally but under very extreme conditions of pressure and heat that only geological processes over millions – hundreds of millions – of years can produce. At the rate of human consumption, the amount it is produced naturally over that period of time will be used up within less than 200 years. And 150 years have passed.
We should start then looking for alternative fuels. Note that within the lifetimes of those in their twenties and thirties, gasoline will be totally used up. But then you may ask, is there need to start worrying now?
Well, before gasoline really is depleted physically, economic forces will be felt first. As gasoline gets less and less, the amount of effort and capital needed to get whatever remaining will increase. The gasoline that is left will be in smaller pockets because the large pockets would have been sucked up dry. The cost of recovering the increasing smaller pockets is of course higher as it gets more difficult to detect and mined.
In fact, chances are the economic effects is already here. The high gasoline prices within the last year or so can be argued to be due to more speculations or economic manipulations. However, if the gasoline reserves is unlimited, it would make sense to just keep producing to meet demands, wouldn’t it? No, they can’t that because the more they produce now, the faster it will deplete.
That is why we should start working towards using alternatives now. The sooner we do so the better it will be. Because gasoline actually is harmful to the very environment we live in.
As a matter of fact alternative have been around for a long time. It does not get noticed of utilised since the manageable gasoline prices have not led to a need to change. Time has now changed.
Two easy alternatives are available right now. Hydrogen fuel cells as well as biodiesel are both affordable to society at large with just a small initial capital and time commitment. Besides being reneweable hence the chance of changing supply to meet demand at will, it is also safe to use to the user as well as to nature.
What are you waiting for then?
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