Why Go Green?
When considering buying a new car today, there are several factors that go in to our decision making (e.g. safety rating, performance, emission rating, price etc). Buying a “green car” today can become a very complex process and every automotive company has it own version of a “green car”. So I have started reviewing sites that are helful and informative and then I will post them accordingly. Now to address the question, going green is definitely the better way because protecting the environment is crucial to our own survival. Greenhouse gases such as Carbon Dioxide is primarily emitted from burning of petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel, kerosene, coal and this causes CO2 levels to rise drastically and hence trap more heat in the planet’s atmosphere and this leads to global warming and melting of the polar ice caps, you can guess where it goes from there. For example, a gallon of gasoline weighs just over 6 lbs. When burnt the carbon in it combines with oxygen from the air to produce about 19 lbs of CO2. But include the energy that went in to the production and distribution of the fuel, the total global warming impact is equivalent to 28 lbs of Carbon Dioxide emissions per gallon of gasoline. This could be one very good reason why we should go and buy a “green car”.