The Reasons as to Why We Need Less Gas

I read an article entitled, "Four Reasons We Need Less Gas".  This article obviously struck my interest, because of how the price of gas has been continuing to get higher and higher each and every year.  This is something to I have been looking in to more and more, because I am buying a brand new car over Christmas break.  Obviously since I am buying a new car, gas mileage i something that I have been looking at in order to help my decision with what car brand, make, and model that I am going to purchase.  As we all know, gas mileage is something that is an important factor when looking at new cars, because of the price of gas.  After reading this article, it made me realize how much gas America alone uses. In one year alone, America tuses more gas than sixteen over countries combined.  These countries include: Brazil, China, Germany, Japan, and Russia.  You know how much gas that is? That fact in itself is completely mind boggling.  That just proves that Americans really do overuse and over consume way too many things.  Clearly, the author of this article, Lester Brown feels the same way, too.  He also states in his article that most Americans are noticing and are aware of these facts, mostly because they notice the rising of the gas prices and that most cars are being purchased now because of their gas mileage.  Brown states in his article that, "But now this is changing. Not only is the affluence that sustained this extravagant gasoline consumption eroding, but the automobile-centered lifestyle that was considered part of the American birthright is fading as well. U.S. gasoline use has dropped 5 percent in four years". 


The article points out that there are four main reasons as to why the usage of gasoline is declining.  Those reasons are: there is been a decline in miles driven by each car, a decrease of the fleets of cars, the change of what kinds of fueling a car uses (instead of using gas to fuel cars, more and more cars are going out where electricity is being used to fuel them), and the inventions of fuel efficiency in new cars.  The article then goes into brief detail for each of the categories about why the usage of gasoline is declining.


Honestly, I think that this is an extremely good thing.  The fact that America alone is using so much gasoline is completely insane.  People wonder why we are running out of the resources that the planet gives us, I think it is pretty easy to figure out.  We are consuming way, way, way too much of a resource.  I do not understand why people do not understand that concept.  We are using up all of the natural resources that the Earth has given us, and so many people just do not seem to care about that.  And I know that this goes for other resources other than gasoline.  As humans, we really are overusing and completely destroying this planet.  When is everybody going to see that?  We are consuming way too many natural resources, and until everybody sees that, and tries to change the way that they over consume, we are going to destroy our planet. What is going to happen when we use up all of our natural resources, when we use up our planet, and have nothing left?  All I hope for is that more people start realizing what is going on, and that they start to make a change in their lifestyle.  As humans, we have the technology and power to find an alternative to overusing the natural resources that we are.