Good sites that list the cons of petroleum gasoline?

Question

Hey do you know any good websites or sources that states the cons of using petroleum gasoline to run our cars?

Answer 1

There are two main cons - waste and pollution.

Cars are a waste of a very valuable resource which is running short.  Oil is used as a raw material in a huge proportion of our products ranging from clothes to computers and it is also used to provide the energy for their manufacture and transportation.  We have been extracting oil and other fossil fuels from the earth at an ever increasing rate but the earth no longer has any means of creating more and it is beginning to run short.  By wasting oil in cars we are depriving our children and grandchildren of a valuable resource.  A useful website concerning the oil shortage issue is http://www.theoildrum.com/

The other problem with burning oil in cars is pollution in the form of CO2.  This gas is a serious greenhouse gas and our emissions are causing global warming which will have serious social and economic effects which our children and grandchildren will have to suffer.  Indeed some of those effects are being experienced already in floods and storms throughout the world.  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has a website in which you can read about this issue and what needs to be done about it at http://www.ipcc.ch/

The answer to these problems is not to replace oil with some other fuel for cars because the production of such a fuel is likely to need a great deal of energy.  No the thing to do is to replace cars with public transport and to travel less.  In deed we need to simplify our lives generally.  In doing so we will find that a simple life is more fun than trying to keep up with the neighbours.

Best wishes

Answer 2

Their are no cons.