Why don't we ban all fossel fuels in vehicles?

Question

This could be phased in over 5 years or so. The technology is there so what is the problem.

Which country has the most vehicles powered by a gas - the Dominican Republic; if they can do it so can we.

Answer 1

Because the Government make incredible amounts of money from all the tax they charge on such fuels. If such fueld weren't sold, where would the extra tax come from?

Answer 2

There are sources of alternative fuels but there are a few reasons why we cannot do this. First of all, there are some means of transportation (air-travel) that need the explosive power of refined fossil fuels in order to even function. (Note also that gasoline is a refined version of oil) As for personal vehicle use, any shift in fuel use must come in small increments or it would be completely devastating to the entire economy. If you completely change the way things are done in an economy, it would cause tremendous upheavals. There are also big businesses that have a lot of people who make a lot of money from fossil fuels, and until they reach a point where they can make a tremendous amount of money from alternative energy sources, they will fight tooth and nail to keep their profits. The US government is making more and more difficult restrictions on mileage abilities of personal vehicles and this is good. If governments really apply themselves, they can probably eliminate fossil fuel use from personal vehicles in the next 20 years. Faster than that would probably be devastating.

Answer 3

The reason why is a matter of efficiency and economy.

Some vehicles in Brazil run on ethanol made from sugar cane, and there are hydrogen cars and cars that run on corn and cars that run on used chip fat...

Thing is that mass production means converting factories or building new ones, and companies might not want to spend the money if they are not sure there will be demand.

Then the technology has to meet the standards of each country and there is all this beaurocracy in the way that you have to pay a legal team millions to sort out before you do that.

Afterwards, then you have to convince the public consumer that it is going to be costing them less money to run the car and even to buy it.

Joe public won't buy the car if he has to pay too much for it and if he has to put too much effort into making the home made fuel or if he has to pay too much for the fuel.

I think it is all a matter of convenience - and money.

Answer 4

The people who controls the money and the power, also control fossel fuels and our lives. The richest people on earth are usually from oil companies, so why would they like to loose their money? they don't care about environment, or about your children which are going to grow up in a god-knows-what kind of world. They only care about how to make even more money. Having the money and the power they won't ever stop promoting fossel fuels. The only way is everyone as an individual should start caring about the alternative power resources

Answer 5

No it couldn't be phased out in five years. The main thing is not to stop using fossil fuels all together - if anything that would be derogatory to the plant. What we need is an equal fuel mix with nuclear, renewable and fossil fuel all playing an equal part. When you say "phased out" i assume you mean that the UK will be relying more heavily on imports as opposed to oil and gas from the North Sea in the nexty five years. What is of crucial importance is that we continue to reciev a steady supply of oil and gas from continental Europe - this however require a high degree of transparency (fairness) from energy companies in France and Germany. And crucially (my opinion here) not a reliance on Russian gas and oil. Hybrid vehicles are a part of the problem, but there are fa greater issues.
Does this help?

Answer 6

Rather than a ban, a lifestyle switch across the entire population is required. Reducing the need for the vehicle in the first place is the point: More local and convenient stores, local jobs, lift sharing, teleworking, better public transport, centralised rubbish and recycling pickups, etc. In the modern world travel has become so easy that it's now become essential, and we're so used to being able to hop in the car and go where we like when we like, that in the main we're not prepared to loose that freedom.
5 years is not long enough to allow the poorer population to invest in alternative transport, either. You need 10-15 years for that kind of change. For that reason, alternatives need to be available now, and every individual should start considering their longer-term strategy for transport.

Answer 7

The technology was even there 100 years ago when my grandfather was a toddler {he died ever since} but the corrupted national socialist governments of the times blocked it .Have you not understood why motor industry developped from this time ?
They stopped Rail developpment to lose not their wicked power !
They had it horsedrawn before, motorized now !
See what they made of urban trams and rural lines .Worldwide wars were (and still are ) a tool to keep people undercivilized !

THE REAL PROBLEM IS NOT FOSSIL FUEL BUT THE PROPER VEHICLE TO USE ! RAIL IS THE ONLY ISSUE TO CORRECT GLOBAL WARNING AND ALL POLLUTIONS !

Answer 8

> Goverments make too much money from oil companies to do so.
> Oil companies make toomany donations to political parties
>A suitable replacement fuel as yet or in five years eg Hydrogen cannot be made commercially available at a reasonable price.
> Not enough quantities of alternative fuels are avialable to satisfy demand
>Cost of convertinmg existing vehicles too high who would pay?
>What about other modes of transport planes and shipd for eg

Answer 9

If you think the technology is already there then you don't know enough about the technology. The problem is that anybody can make one solar car, if they want to take the time and pay the cost, but we cannot make enough to replace all the cars in the world. There is just no way. If you think there is, then you need to learn more.

Answer 10

Go hug a tree...... and when you come back, do a little reality check.

Cars - around 99.9% run on fossil fuels...including LPG.
Trains - nearly all diesel-electric
Buses - nearly all diesel
Ships - diesel
Planes - kerosene (diesel)

That's right....crash the economy (gotta buy those new cars - and dispose of the old ones), cripple the transport infrastructure and take us back to the flippin' stone age.

Answer 11

We could, but the technology is still being developed on Hydrogen driven vehicles. This makes it expensive right now. And if we stop now, George Bush will have nothing to fight for!!!! So lets give him a chance also. (ha ha ha)