Green Car, Green World

Green Car, Green World
















Renzhi Liu














EAP2, Writer’s Workshop
April 29, 2008

Abstract
The topic of this paper is how to let American use green car. It argues that people should use green car to help our world. There are four reasons for this argument. The first is that green car can help environment, and the second one is that we need let use the green car be law. The third one is you can save more resource for our future. The last one is the services are not good enough.



Argument Essay
Green car, Green world
I became interested in green cars after I studied about how we have to help our environment. The green car is “considered to be more environmentally friendly than traditional all-petroleum internal combustion engine vehicles” (Wikipedia). Basically we can say it can save more gas and have less air pollution. Weight has been increasing by about 1.5% per year (Carmakers face obesity challenge, 2007). So we will face greenhouse gas, and the temperature will go up and up. We will spend a lot of money to buy gas. Now people have found the gas price has been going up and still is very high; now a lot of people have begun to think if the price still goes up they will sell the car, because they do not have enough money to buy gas for cars (Gas prices straining budgets, 2008). With green cars everything is good, but we still face a big problem which is that Americans still do not buy it. “Most American consumers are pocketbook activists. They are desperate for fuel efficiency only when gasoline price rise” (Green, the Color of Survival, 2006). Now the world needs green cars and this would help the world. Although now green car is very good and important, in fact few people can use it, and it is not very popular.

The first reason we go buy cars because it will be easy when we have to go somewhere, it can save our time. But when you use a car you only can help people, not help our world’s environment. In “cars, trucks and air pollution” the author told us, “Transportation is the largest single source of air pollution in the United States. It causes over half of the carbon monoxide, over a third of the nitrogen oxides, and almost a quarter of the hydrocarbons in our atmosphere in 2006.” So now you cannot tell your children our sky is blue, because of pollution from cars. And the author said that in our sky we have particulate matter, hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, hazardous air pollutants, and greenhouse gases. Do you know something about these? I can tell you more about these pollutions. The particulate matter can penetrate deep into lungs, and sulfur dioxide in low level can irritate the respiratory system, so you will always cough and choke; do you think these are ok? And the important one is greenhouse gases. It can make world temperature goes up, a little higher will change a lot of our world; we will lose more land for people, lose a lot of animals and lose ourselves. We can not care right now, but our future will be like the movie “The day after tomorrow”; we lose our future. But green cars just cost you a little, and have no or less air pollution, so why don’t a lot of Americans save this money and lose their future? Americans want to save money to have not green cars to spend more money on health centers and always to worry about their tomorrow; what will happen? So now Americans remember that going green will cost more money but in the future they will remember that save a lot and get more back. This is one of the reasons we need green cars.

The second way let American buy green cars is like let nonsmoker in restaurant, use the law’s power. “Effective January 1, 2008, the Smoke-free Illinois Act prohibits smoking in virtually all public places and workplaces, including offices, theaters, museums, libraries, educational institutions, schools, commercial establishments, enclosed shopping centers and retail stores, restaurants, bars, private clubs and gaming facilities” (Smoke-free Illinois, Damon). So now we can smoke in public place, at the beginning of this law, a lot of smokers felt angry and hated this rule. But time can change everything, now everyone still follows this rule, nobody smokes in public places. We know the environment is very important for humans, but if government requires green cars in the same way, it requires smoke-free public places, maybe at the beginning a lot of people will be angry, but law always will be law, so later, people will think it will be ok, because of the environment and our future. And using green cars will become a law; this will make car companies build good green cars and price will goes down, so this will be good for citizens.

The last one is save our resources for future. In our world, resources are beginning to be less and less, so prices begin to go up. But oil is very important for every country, so every country’s government controls their country’s gas price. Americans use the most gas in the world, because they have a lot of cars. “Most American consumers are pocketbook activists. They are desperate for fuel efficiency only when gasoline prices rise. When those prices fall, they become horsepower recidivists, rapidly returning to their fuel-wasting ways by buying the biggest vehicles with the biggest engines, regardless of whether they actually need them ”(Brown, 2006). So Americans just follow the gas price; if prices change they will change. Price is very important; it decided your money, you speed more or less, but just follow the price, it will be more difficult for help our environment. For example, if you buy a green car costing $25,000, but the other car costs just $20,000, you will think $5000 is a lot, but sit down and think more, you can save more than $5000 in the future. So we need to let the gas price be raised, if it stays expensive, then people will think about using green cars, saving money and buying less gas. And government can use the money from gas to help setup and supply the green car. Then people will think this is killing two birds with one store; this is can save more money, and they will do it.

Opponents of using the green cars that green car have an important problem about the car service. In “Car Rental Green Guide: Pipe Dream” (2007) the author told us “No premium in Europe. In the US and Canada there is a premium of about $5 per day to cover operational costs of guaranteeing resolvable cars.” So this will let people buy green cars and after that the service is a big problem that nobody has solved however, nothing is perfection, and now this technology is developing very fast, and government tries to fix this problem, so we still need to use green cars to help our world.

It is very clear that American should use green cars. The pollution and save resource are big problems for humans. Therefore, we need a law requiring people to use green cars. Furthermore, government needs to have more service for green cars. The service is a problem. You can find gas stations everywhere, but you can’t, or it is difficult, to find a station for green cars. Government needs to have a lot of service before letting people go buy green cars. And when the price goes down, people will love to buy green cars.



References
Lynn Zappala, L. (n.d.), Green car dealerships popping up around US. MSNBC.com. Retrieved from April 10, 2008, from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21455433/.

Brown, W. (2006, December 3). Green, the color of survival. Washington Post. Retrieved April 10, 2008, from http://www.lexisnexis.com/.

Jorn, M. (2007, July 6). Carmakers face obesity challenge. BBC.com Retrieved from April10, 2008. From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6277636.stm

Gas prices straining budgets (February 29, 2008). Retrieved from April 10, 2008 from http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/29/gas.squeeze.irpt/index.html?iref=newssearch.

Car, Truck and air pollution. Retrieved from April 10, 2008 from http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_vehicles/vehicles_health/cars-trucks-air-pollution.html.

Why we buy hybrid (February 28, 2006). Retrieved from April 10, 2008. From http://www.edmunds.com/advice/hybridcars/articles/109421/article.html.

Smoke free in Illinois. Retrieved from April 10, 2008, from http://www.idph.state.il.us/smokefree/index.htm.

Car Rental Green Guide: Pipe dreams (September 07, 2007). Retrieved from April10, 2008. From http://www.lexisnexis.com.

Wikipedia in daily life

According to Byers’ article, “Approximately 38 milion people visited the English language version of the site in December 2006. Wikipedia is also easy to find; it frequently appears at the top of many Google searches and access in completely free.” Wikipedia is very famous and a lot of people use it. “It is already the ninth most popular Web site in the US” (Jason, 2007). There is a lot of useful information on Wikipedia, so we should let more people use Wikipedia. More people need to use Wikipedia to get more information to help them.

The basic reason people need to use Wikipedia is that it is useful and powerful. Students need to write a lot of papers and most of them require a long time to think. At the end, they still do not have enough good idea to write this paper, so now it is time to use Wikipedia; they can get some information. “Seven per cent of all internet users now visit the site every day” (Nicole, 2008, para.13). Why do a lot of people use it? Because it has a lot of good information and it is very powerful, so a lot of people choose it. “Middlebury College, a prestigious liberal arts school in Vermont, recently announced that its history department had banned the citation of Wikipedia for history papers and exams” (Meredith, 2007). It told us again that Wikipedia is very useful.

It is very easy to use it, as a website for people to communicate and argue the points. People put their ideas online and other people read them and can argue whether it is right or not. People put their experience online to help other people. So we can make fewer mistakes. “Wikipedia is an encyclopedia compiled by the voluntary contributions of thousands of writers and editors. Anyone can write an article and post it to the Wikipedia; anyone else can come along later and edit the article. It is a kind of open, voluntary, work in progress. As such, it’s the most up-to-date encyclopedia you will find” (Teaching Jim, 2006, para.6). It is the website for everyone and it is very easy to use.

Now Wikipedia is very famous in the Internet world; “It is already the ninth most popular Web site in the USA” (Jason, 2007). Why can it be so famous in such a short time? Because you can find everything here, there is a free space for any knowledge and articles. You can do what you want, to post your information and get information. People always want to use famous things, like buy cloth you want to Tommy, so because it is famous, a lot of people use Wikipedia and make it stronger and stronger; you can study a lot of things from this Web site; it is not only useful and powerful, it already looks like a library and school for anyone who wants to study.

It is very clear that people need to use more Wikipedia. There is good information and knowledge that can help people a lot. Now a lot of people begin to use it. So now we need more Web sites like Wikipedia to help more people to study; this is an online school and free for everyone. People can take the information to study, so it is a 24 hour teacher and school near you. And we know the more the better, so giving more information is good for everyone.
References
Meredith, B. (2007 March 8). Controversy over use of Wikipedia in academic papers arrives at Smith. Sophian Smith clooege. Retrieved April 23, 2008, from http:// media. www. Smithsophian.com

Jason, W. (January 22, 2007). Wikipedia Wisdom, Valley Vanguard. Retrieved April 23, 2008, from http://www.svsu.edu

Jim, L. (2006, February 7). Teaching with Technology. Retrieved April 23, 2008 from http://www/powertolearn.com

David, P. (February 2008). Wikipedia and the new curriculum. Science Progress. Retrieved April 23, 2008, from http://www. Scienceprogress.org.

Nicole, M. (9/20/2008). Wikipedia clamps down on ‘ Unreliable’ editors. Telegraphs.co.uk/ Retrieved April 23, 2008, from http://www.telegraph.co.uk