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Thursday, September 24, 2009

How Hybrid Cars can Reduce the Energy Crisis

By Colin Jones

It has been said that not enough people are doing all they can do to struggle against the energy crisis. Hybrid cars can help, but definitely not enough people are driving them. Here are a few things 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 latest discovery of oil in the Gulf of Mexico.

Hybrid cars make it so that we might not have to use other sources of energy to keep the economy afloat. Hybrid cars don't cause Americans to use more fossil fuel. Instead, 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 now than they were a few years ago. Now, however, people just take the higher prices in their stride. Furthermore, in the meantime, cars are getting bigger and bigger. Vehicle manufacturers are making trucks and SUV's, which consume more petrol at the higher prices.

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

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

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

The plug-in hybrid cars, for example, might not even need oil whatsoever one day. So, just in case we do have an energy crisis one day, Americans ought really to be using the intervening time to finding a answer to the coming oil crisis in the U.S. Hybrid cars are the way to avoid the energy crisis, and if countries still want to compete with each other over fuel, at least America will know they attempted to stop the impending crisis by buying hybrid vehicles.

So, that's it. America's mass use of hybrid cars would ensure that Americans use less gas. But Americans also still have yet to profit from the large amount of money being made from hybrid vehicles. The majority of popular hybrid cars come from Japan. Therefore, Americans ought 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. - 21393

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