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Shannon D. Burns Professor: Candice Thomas SCI-219 January 20, 2017 Milestone II – Solution to America fossil fuel dependency The North Dakota Access Pipe Line is a 1,172-mile-long (1,886 km) underground mega pipeline project. Known as the Bakken pipeline, when it is completed it will have the compacity to transfer 450,000 barrels of light sweet crude oil a day from North Dakota northwest oil fields to several oil refineries along the northeast costal shores. Considered none conational “Fracking” is a new way of reaching and obtaining oil deposits in relatively hard places. The technic opens domestic exploration, bringing to market fossil fuel that would not have been necessary accessible for consumption. The situation is like a two-edged-sward, as some will assert that domestic exploration for fossil fuel deposits will lead to less dependency on foreign import. Such an assertion is, however a fallacy of asserting the consequence, for there is no rational reason to believe that domestic production will ever solely meet the needs of the nation’s present, and future consumption of fossil fuel. It will, however add to current production. Individuals naïve to the issues of climate change, and the environmental dangers begotten from having high levels of co 2 emissions in the atmosphere would regarded domestic exploration as a positive. The consequential effect is more co 2 emanating from transportation vehicles. “The average passenger vehicle emits about 411 grams of co 2 per mile. This number can vary

based on two factors: the fuel economy of the vehicle and the amount of carbon in the vehicle’s fuel. Most vehicles on the road in the U.S. today are gasoline vehicles, and they average about 21.6 miles per gallon.3 Every gallon of gasoline creates about 8,887 grams of co 2 when burned. Therefore, the average vehicle when driving one mile has tailpipe co 2 emissions of about: CO 2 emmission per mile = CO 2 per gallon MPG = 8,887 21.6 = 411 grams (Division, U.S. EPA, OAR, & Office of Transportation and Air Quality, 2011) The above equation represents the amount of carbon dioxide co 2 from tailpipe emissions while below show us how much carbon dioxide co 2 emissions of a typical passenger vehicle. “Passenger vehicle emits about 4.7 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. This number can vary based on a vehicle’s fuel, fuel economy, and the number of miles driven per year. The average gasoline vehicle on the road today has a fuel economy of about 21.6 miles per gallon and drives around 11,400 miles per year. Every gallon of gasoline burned creates about 8,887 grams of co 2 , and there are one million grams per metric ton. Therefore, the average vehicle over a year of driving has tailpipe co 2 emissions of about: co 2 per galion MPG ×miles = 8,887 21.6 × 11,400 = 4.7 metrictons ”