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Environmental Balance

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

It is my turn to look into something that doesn’t really damage the environment. By environment I mean a practical method to ensure clean air and pure water. You may not know the outcome of a diesel here or a gasoline engine there. But multiply them by millions and it’s only going to help us out more in the long run to reduce them. I can say for certain that pure water will make a huge difference to many people’s lives. Every day I do a couple of things with a diesel or gasoline powered machine whether it’s a moped, car, bus, or delivery truck. We all use these modes to enhance our lifestyles. Electric vehicles are not seeing the results that it should. It’s not worth the higher initial cost yet. And gasoline is still the higher density fuel.

The environment is what it is. It is the summation of our world’s condition in the way we want to deal with oil products laid down millions of years ago and sequestered until recently when we furiously began releasing it all back into the atmosphere in a very short geological moment. This is a stop the madness kind of calculating that gasoline will run out, and there are many other uses of petroleum that are more useful than just burning it for heat energy.

There’s no secret to electric vehicles. It’s just not practical in the world that we allowed ourselves to create by subsidizing roads with taxes and eliminating other possibilities. We understand the problem but I kind of have strong convictions that we let the government off with a pass for giving us a ‘free lunch’. It is the hardest thing to do in the world, but if you can’t beat them, join them. Electric vehicles are a way to decrease the amount of emissions into the environment while they are being used. This is a fantastic way to enjoy the lifestyle without losing out to personal transportation. I am listing electric vehicles as only a joke because you decide to do something about environment. (more…)