Hybrid Cars and 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 probably not enough people are driving them. Here are a few issues related to the energy crisis and how hybrid cars can help.

The U.S. isn't doing enough really. The United States consumes more fossil fuels than any other country in the world. However, most people think that all of our energy problems can be solved if we would only look further into the oil deposits in Alaska or if we made full use of the recent oil discovery 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 consume an excessive amount of fossil fuel. Instead, hybrid vehicles make Americans use less fossil fuel.

Fuel 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 accept the higher prices. Furthermore, in the meantime, cars are being made bigger and bigger. Vehicle manufacturers are making trucks and SUV's, which consume more gas at the higher prices.

These vehicles use more gas, but you wouldn't believe just how many people will not give up their petrol-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 could be an end to the "cheap oil period". Soon, we could all be in over our heads, because not only will we have an energy crisis, but a peak oil crisis as well. During the peak oil crisis, there will be fuel shortages and natural gas shortages too. The major countries will need to compete against one another for whatever oil is left.

Therefore, everyone may have some problems, and countries may have to compete for who gets oil and who does not. The peak gas crisis can be put off, if more people just drove hybrid cars. Hybrid cars ensure that people are not always having to be searching for petrol. Furthermore, there are advances being made to hybrid technology all the time.

The plug-in hybrid vehicles, for instance, might not even need oil whatsoever one day. So, just in case we do have an energy crisis, Americans ought really to be spending the time to finding a solution to the coming oil crisis in the U.S. Hybrid vehicles are the method to beat the energy crisis, and if countries still want to fight each other over gas, at least America will know they attempted to slow the impending crisis by buying hybrid cars.

So, that's it. The United States' mass use of hybrid vehicles would make it so that Americans need less gas. But Americans also still have yet to gain from the large amount of money being made from hybrid vehicles. The majority of popular hybrid vehicles come from Japan. So Americans need to bring that money back into the country as well as do something about the current energy crisis.

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