How Many Green Cars are There in the World
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by: terence
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Back in 1900 there were only 5,000 motor cars on the planet. How many cars are there now? According to the latest estimates, there are 620 million cars in the world. The number will increase to a round billion by 2020. Theoretically, it is fine to have a billion cars, however, the majority of these cars should be switched away from fossil fuels. Actually, within next couple of years you will find that running a green car is much cheaper and more fun than a gas guzzler.
Scientists, environmentalists and representatives of high commissions go on about disputing over the planet's energy resources. Thoughts of how quickly Earth's stocks of fossil fuel would deplete vary. Clearly there is only one truth - the fossil fuel resources dwindle, and they will never be renewed. Forming of oil-like substance began 500 million years ago. Fossil fuel formation process ended about 5 million years ago. Nowadays the oil is no longer produced. In theory the process of fuel formation exists, but the necessary "catalyst" - sharp temperature fluctuations and gigantic seismic pressure - is not present any more. Now our daily consumption of oil adds up to an amount that once took 10,000 years for mother-earth to create. 10,000 years of work for a single day of spending resources!
Speaking openly, without exaggeration the current “funds” of fossil fuel would be enough for a couple of thousand years to come. Inconceivable amounts of fossil fuel still sleeps underneath the earth. The main problem is lurking elsewhere.
First: if humanity will continue to consume oil at a similar pace the vegetation will be destroyed and our grandchildren will have to move about as the Martians in Hollywood movies - with respiratory, attached to the nose.
Oxygen topic will moves from the chemical book pages to the history books. And this is not an empty horror story, which environmentalists have invented to scare children. A real fact - we now consume more oxygen than the planet's plants are being able to reproduce.
And we must not forget about some troubles of secondary character. When the oil is sucked out, what remains is ... emptiness. This is very near future that threatens to change the Earth's crust. This will lead to increase the planet's seismic activity, we will see earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and floods forming more often. In addition, some scientists consider that the planet's mass distribution changes can lead to the displacement of planet’s magnetic axis. We have to look at this environmental problem in a different light. We have to reduce oil consumption not merely in order to save energy for our successors, but in order to give our descendants a chance to breathe! The best way to do it - to switch to environmentally cleaner green cars on global basis.
For the time being the introduction of alternative propulsion systems and green cars on a global scale is not satisfactory. Hybrid vehicles, electric vehicles and other alternative propulsion vehicles are so few and rare on the background of the classic - internal propulsion cars that it is not even worth to take them into consideration. From the 620,000,000 motor cars of the world, there are only 400,000 units of hybrid cars, 21,000 units of electric cars and 4,000 units of green car models of other alternative forms of energy.
By the time we reach one billion cars, we need much more green car models to appear on our streets!
About the Author
Terence Green is an environmental activist campaigning about green energy development. Learn more about electric cars and other means of green motoring.
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