What do Greenhouse Gases have to do with global warming?

In the years to come, essential raw materials from crude oil and arable farmland to clean air and fresh water will be in short supply. Wealth among nations will be more accurately measured by access to natural resources and raw materials than by the value of goods produced and services available. Based on shortages of essential raw materials, sustained prosperity of some nations is only achievable through deliberately depriving other nations of theirs. Animosity between nations will trigger debilitating resource skirmishes around the world, which no nation will win. Willingness by the United States to assume a leadership role in solving an imminent global crisis by assessing the impact of dwindling natural resources, analyzing alternatives from natural resource conservation to increased use of renewable resources and reliance on green technologies, and then executing a national energy policy defined from a truly global perspective is urgently needed. The stakes have never been higher.

The following report will address and compare alternative fuels used to power motor vehicles as far as their advantages and disadvantages as well as how each affect our environment. The goal of this report is to find the most effective fuel that has less of a negative impact on the world’s environment in a whole. In addition, the alternative fuels that will be the topic of discussion are electric, hybrid, natural gas, hydrogen, fuel cell, clean diesel (low sulfur), biodiesel (B100), and ethanol (E85). Each of the mentioned fuels will be weighed out according to the amount of pollution they do and do not contribute to the atmosphere.

There is one area, though, where we could do more to reduce our energy dependence. Housing. As America begins the difficult task of pulling itself out of economic disaster, the time is perfect to make a minor adjustment in housing. Rather than building new houses to be merely energy efficient, we should begin building them to be energy self sufficient. There is no reason at all why we cannot incorporate solar and/or wind power generation methods in every house or other structure we build.

A different viewpoint on giving the right to pollute to some and selling that right to others; windfall for polluters accidentally being in “right place at right time”.
Do we really want to give government another $600-800 Billion of our money to decide to spend on who knows what?

The government of Russia can under circumstances decide to interfere, or indeed completely stop its national exports of crude oil, petroleum, and natural gas to any other country or trading block including the EU and its member states.

This article is an argument in favor of electric cars and natural gas fueled trucks.

In New York and other large cities, hybrid taxis are becoming mandated. Since there has been a shortage in the availability of these vehicles, natural gas taxis can fill the supply gap. These vehicles are green and save green while not changing what it’s like to ride a taxi.

In Utah, natural gas for vehicles costs 63 cents a gallon. Natural gas fuel across the nation is on average 1-2 dollars a gallon making this alternative to gasoline worth it. The technology is available today and this article introduces the technology.