Thursday, July 30, 2009

How Hybrid Cars can Reduce the Energy Crisis

By Colin Jones

It is said that not enough people are doing enough to struggle against the energy crisis. Hybrid cars can help, but probably not enough people are driving them. Here are a few issues related to the energy crisis and how hybrid cars can help.

The U.S. isn't doing enough really. The United States uses more fossil fuels than any other country in the world. However, most people believe that all of our energy problems can be solved if we would only investigate further into the oil deposits in Alaska or if we made full use of the recent discovery of oil in the Gulf of Mexico.

Hybrid cars can result in us not having to use other sources of energy to keep the economy afloat. Hybrid cars won't cause Americans to use an excessive amount of fossil fuel. Rather, hybrid cars make Americans use less fossil fuel.

Petrol consumers just accept increasing fuel prices. People used to be concerned that gas prices are much higher today than they were a few years ago. Now, however, people just take the higher prices in their stride. Furthermore, in the meantime, vehicles are getting bigger and bigger. Car manufacturers are making trucks and SUVs, which consume more fuel at the higher prices.

These cars use more gas, but you wouldn't believe just how many people will not give up their petrol-guzzling SUV. Hybrid vehicles do eventually cost their owners less to own than conventional vehicles do. So there is no need to worry about settling for being swindled by the oil economy.

Soon there will be an end to the "cheap oil period". Soon, we could all be in over our heads, because not only will we be in an energy crisis, but in a peak oil crisis too. During this peak oil crisis period, there will be petrol shortages and natural gas shortages as well. The major countries will need to compete against one another for whatever small amount of fuel remains.

Therefore, everyone may have some problems, and countries may have to fight for who gets oil and who does not. The peak petrol crisis can be put off, if more people just purchased hybrid vehicles. Hybrid vehicles ensure that people are not always having to be looking for fuel. Additionally, there are advances being made in hybrid vehicles all the time.

The plug-in hybrid vehicles, for instance, might not even need oil at all one day. So, just in case we do have an energy crisis, Americans ought really to be spending the time to finding a solution to the impending oil crisis in the U.S. Hybrid vehicles are the method to beat the energy crisis, and if countries still want to fight each other over gas, at least America will know they attempted to slow the impending crisis by investing in hybrid cars.

So, there you have it then. The America's mass adoption of hybrid cars would ensure that Americans use less fuel. But Americans also have yet to profit from the large amount of money being made from the manufacture of hybrid vehicles. The majority of popular hybrid cars come from Japan. Therefore, Americans need to bring that money back into the country by making hybrids at home and do something about the current energy crisis at the same time.

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