Posts Tagged ‘pollution’
Electric Vehicles Have Arrived in East Sussex Seaside Town
The East Sussex town of Brighton has just announced that it will be installing 20 roadside charging stations for use with electric vehicles. This is part of a big scheme to try and enable Brighton to be more of a Zero-emission city.
It is worth considering that maybe some people who own electric vehicles think they are bigger and better than the rest of us? If you consider an episode of South Park it would certainly seem so. Many of the South Park people who bought an electric vehicle suddenly found that they all started to think very highly of themselves and definitely far better than people without the vehicle.
Of course this is all nonsense and just put there to annoy the people of Chicago (where a lot of the episode was based) as well as everyone who own one of the electric cars.
Is the answer to all the pollution in the world actually in these cars or maybe it can cause more hassle than good? As power stations are unable to shut down overnight, currently there is a lot of unused electricity, so without building anymore stations, we could power millions of electric vehicles with no additional impact on the environment. Even if we do have to build more power plants, they would hopefully be cleaner plants. Also, the price per mile works out a lot cheaper for an electric car than it does for a gas car. The truth is it is all to do with efficiency as gasoline cars are 25% efficient whereas electric are around 95% meaning that a mile on electric costs a penny and a mile on gas costs around 15 cents.
So if you are about to Buy a new Alfa Romeo or buy a Honda you should hold off and wait until an electric car comes your way. Whether it is new cars there is sure to be an eventual upgrade for a car to help take down your C02 emissions.
New York Cleans up Cars From the Street
As we have witnessed the government have taken pollution very seriously, and they have already started the clamp down on cars. We all realise that vehicles are one of the worst pollution emitting machines of all and this is why governments around the world are pushing forward with scrappage schemes. This is to get the old polluting cars off of the road and replace them with more suitable ones.
But the USA have gone a bit further and stopped any cars from the streets of Times Square, the move is set to last a whole year as authorities look to cut pollution and make big cities a much nicer place to live. As well as that I also feel that another benefit that will come from this all will be that people will become a huge amount healthier. The whole world is suffering with obesity more and more and its all due down to people not exercising enough. But with effectively eliminating the use of vehicles people will begin walking a lot more and not breathing in unhealthy car fumes.
So should car really not be allowed in busy destinations? Well as we have already seen there is a huge amount of beneficial factors, but for some people there may be a lot of negative ones, an example of this is delivery drivers and cabs, how will shops get their deliveries on time if no one is allowed to access or park out side the shops? And could cab drivers lose a lot of customers simply by not being able to pick them up?
Whichever way you look at the scenario, there is bound to be a huge number of good and bad aspects.
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