Environmentally Friendly Cars Essay -- automotive industry, global war

When I was young, I remember begging my mom at every toy aisle in the department store to buy at least one hot wheel car that I picked out. I had a problem I had an undying thirst for these tiny cars in those recyclable blue cardboard and plastic packages. I used to pretend that I was a small person, small enough to fit in the nerveless cars I bought with just a glimmer of hope that maybe I would be able to fit inside and drive away. That never did happen though, scarcely I had an indomitable dream. I had the patience that maybe one day, I would be able to drive my own actual car. I am nineteen now, and my fascination for cars has not changed one bit. I am finally old enough to drive, but it still feels like I am still my younger self stuck at the store in a hot wheels aisle trying to decide what car I should get. I look at the cars nowadays to notice that even though the essentials of a car never changes, essentially four wheels and some sort of motor to move, something is diff erent about cars that are in the present compared to what they were when I was a kid. Today, the growing concern of Global Warming is taking affect into peoples mindset. Automobiles emit more than 333 million gobs of carbon dioxide per year. (Ginovieto) In United States, and other countries like Europe there is a fossil fuel shortage that threaten the futures of the automotive industry. Gas prices cede been fluctuating an all time high. The consumer market for cars continually grows. Many countries are industrializing at a rapid pace, such as China, and demand for cars and transportation get to also increased. These problems all affect one another to add and combine to bigger problems. Pollution, overcrowding on the roads, and rising gas prices, all are prevalent in ... ... industry can focus on environmentally friendly but unreasonably fast super-cars like the hot wheels I always dreamed to be in. Works CitedAdvantages of Turbochargers. Turbo Servis -. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Dec. 2 014.Williams, Stephan. Toyota Engineers Flowers to Offset Production Pollution. Wheels Toyota Engineers Flowers to Offset Production Pollution Comments. New York Times, 3 Nov. 2009. Web. 08 Dec. 2014.Sutcliffe, Steve. Has Audi Spoiled Le Mans? Autocar. Autocar, 21 June 2013. Web. 08 Dec. 2014.Roos, Dave. Does Hybrid Car Production drop Offset Hybrid Benefits?HowStuffWorks. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Dec. 2014.Ginovieto. Global Warming Causes. Cars and Global Warming. Global Warming Blogspot, 06 Mar. 2009. Web. 08 Dec. 2014.Zoellter, Juergen. 2014 Volkswagen XL1. Car and Driver. Car and Driver, June 2013. Web. 08 Dec. 2014.