Worried about gasoline price? Not if you know the alternatives.
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Written by Tim Marquez
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
Are You Worried about gasoline prices?
Ever since cars were invented, it has run on gasoline. And we are using them like a mad society.
Ever since the internal combustion engine was invented one and half
century ago, the human population has been plundering the world for
gasoline. The simplicity of the fuel to mechanical work
conversion via the internal combustion engine, coupled with
portability of gasoline has led to much of 20th century progress the
world over.
However, gasoline can be depleted. Only extreme geological processes
occurring over hundreds of million of years can produce it. The rate of
human consumption means that within 200 years of use, all the gasoline
produced over millions of years will be used up. And we are 150 years.
The time to look for alternatives is here. For those people in their
twenties or thirties, gasoline will be history within their lifetimes.
But you say, what's the hurry?
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.
The economic faster may in fact be already here. The skyrocketing
gasoline prices of recent times can be more due to speculations or
economic games. However, should gasoline be renewable, the prices can
checked by increasing supply at will to meet demand. Nope, gasoline is
not renewable, therefore it doesn't make sense to over produce now as
it will end up depleted even faster.
Hence the incentives to start converting to alternative fuels are here.
The sooner the better. Because gasoline is not only a non renewable
energy source, it is also harmful to the environment which we depend on.
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.
Hydrogen fuel cells as well as biodiesel represent two affordable
alternative to society at large. Being renewable, the prices wil be
easily checked as supply is moved to meet demands. They are also safe
to use and are more environment friendly.
Should you wait any longer?
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