. Major Fuel and Emissions Savings Unlikely in Automobiles

Major Fuel and Emissions Savings Unlikely in Automobiles

-The U.S. National Academy of Sciences suggests that it will be "extremely challenging" to cut emissions and oil use by 80 percent by 2050 in a new report

By Brian Bienkowski and The Daily ClimateinShare4

This article’s major theme is the current environmental issue, Fuel. Oil is not an unlimited resource, and my opinion on this article is that the public needs to be informed, and serious changes need to be put into place to help reverse this issue while we still have time. In the article it talks about a “Panel” that discusses how they can help this issue. The panel identified four ways to reduce oil use and emissions, or solutions: More efficient gas-powered engines, and vehicles that use biofuels, electricity or hydrogen. Natural gas vehicles were considered, but their greenhouse gas emissions are too high for the 2050 goal. The barriers in this factor would be money, time and research in saving gas but still making a vehicle affordable and also getting the public people to change their ways and begin to respect the environment.

This article originally appeared at The Daily Climate, the climate change news source published by Environmental Health Sciences, a nonprofit media company.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=major-fuel-emission-savings-unlikely-in-automobiles