Electric Vehicles: mercedes

I know what you are thinking about electric cars. Buying an electric car is NOT a good idea. It is too slow, probably not safe enough and too new a gadget. However, if you remember the crude oil crunch that is here to stay, you may wish to think twice. The fact is that electric cars are not new. They were invented at the beginning of the last century. Electric cars were a good idea back in 1915 and today they are an even better one. America has five percent of the world population, but uses 25% of the world’s petroleum production. It’s partly due to the country’s continued abundant supply of relatively inexpensive petroleum products. Americans want bigger, faster and stronger cars, and always have wanted this. The truth is that it is a waste to drive a Hummer back and forth to work, and a strain on the environment. Yet, Americans feel this need to impress others with the creative ways they can come up with to waste gas, energy, and money. Probably, that’s OK. That’s America. But the problem is that too many people want to get the American standard which is wishful thinking. What isn’t OK is that these people fail to even take into account the long-term costs,the ramifications and the consequences. The picture below is a good illustration of this kind of view.

The internal combustion engine pollutes our air, water and land until the whole world becomes more like a dirty goldfish bowl than a sustainable environment for healthy living. We pollute the air, and the dirt lodges in our lungs when we breathe. Rain washes pollution out of the sky and onto our homes, cars, and land. Once on the ground, pollution ends up in our food, or, even worse, in the water table where it ends up in drinking water and bath water. Then, when we develop debilitating diseases, we try to blame it on heredity. We do not even think of what may lie ahead...

Electric cars aren’t the answer to the problem, but the represent a move in the right direction. There are a lot of things we can all do to improve our environment and improve our individual health. The key is to do something; to start somewhere. Every little bit done to improve the environment and preserve health is better than doing nothing at all. What I’ve discovered through my electric car is that small changes soon become habits and lead to larger changes.

Change soon seems so natural, a person wonders why he or she ever did things any other way. Maybe the small changes we can make won’t add up to much in the world, but they will add up in our world and that of our children.

Well, another scenario is also possible: if we go on like this, we might end up on the backs of our dogs soon.