Fossil Fuels Are Bad For Our Environment

In the year 2013, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the United States consumed a staggering 6.89 billion barrels of oil (U.S.EIA). Which in fact, equates to 18.89 million barrels being consumed every single day. That is a vast amount of petroleum products being consumed on a daily national level. If the calculation is made, based on a barrel equaling forty two gallons, it would come out to 289,583,700,000 gallons per year, or 793,380,000 gallons per day. The amount is incredible, almost unbelievable. If the United States continues its use of oil at this rate, the supply will only last another forty years. With more and more cars being on the road and operating machinery performing tasks, the supply of petroleum will not be able to meet demand forever. As our use of fossil fuels increases, so does our need for a new source of renewable energy.

As the planet’s population continues to grow, so will the energy needs. Even with fast advancement of technology, humans are only able to extract so much oil in a given period. Relying solely on fossil fuels and pushing off the inevitable does not make sense. If all of the United States oil supply and every other non-renewable energy source had suddenly disappeared from the face of North America, Americans would have no choice but to rely on renewable energy resources and that would not be a problem. As more solar panels, windmills, and hydroelectric turbines were built and placed in their respective environments, the United States would be back on its feet within no time. This would eventually lead to lower energy costs and a much greener and environmentally friendly nation overall. In the long run, investing and focusing on renewable energy resources provides the United States with a fail-safe solution which would also provide citizens with the energy they need to power their everyday

During the past couple of centuries, humans were able to accomplish more things than the entirety of human existence. Mankind was able to prolong life, cure deadly diseases, and more. One of the greatest achievements was converting fossil fuels into energy. People are able to take the fossilized remains and turn them into the everyday fuel everyone in the world uses. However, the energy humans have been using is not clean. The more people use fossil fuels, the more the planet dies. Fortunately, scientists and engineers were able to come up with ways to renew energy. They created new technologies that are capable of harvesting the sun’s rays, water currents, and wind power. Even though renewable energy sources like this have been discovered, people still neglect to convert to them and continue to use fossil fuels.

When fossil fuels are burnt, the c02 is released into the atmosphere rapidly, and the c02 cycle doesn’t have enough time to get the c02 out of the atmosphere. This c02 traps the heat from coming out of the atmosphere and creates global warming. Global warming is serious because it melts the ice cap, removes habitas, raises sea levels and many other negative effects. A good way to stop this environmental hazard is to use green energy. Instead of burning coal and natural gas, we can use more wind turbines, hydro-electric dams and other green electricity options. We also need to research solar panels more, so we can make them more efficiant. If we start to do this, the c02 outtake would be significantly decreased and the world will be a better place to live

The future of our world depends on two things. One is the protection of the children, as these fossil fuels and non-renewable resources are used we will not experience the consequences but our children will. The second being the protection of the earth. With this harmful resource, we are just using it as a dumping ground with these killer chemicals, gases, and much more. As time goes on the earth can only take so much, and with resources becoming more abundant we better figure something

The environment is negatively affected be the burning of fossil fuels. The affects of the gases contribute to global warming, along with acid rain and polluted air. This pollution cuts short an estimated 30,000 American lives according to the Clean Air Task Force (Rich). The United States must stop using fossil fuels because the gases produce harm the environment we live causing harm to come all the citizens. “The future of energy production will

Climate change is like driving across a rickety bridge, 97% of scientists say it will eventually collapse the remaining 3% say not to worry. This analogy demonstrates how important it is to understand and not ignore the consent of experts. It is in our best interest to develop a country that can develop without a massive intervention of fossil fuels for sustenance.Fossil fuels should be left where they were belong, in the ground. Banning fossil fuels means changing our transportation system so that we can power our cars, buses, and trains with electricity instead of dirty energy. Our model of transportation and urbanization is broken therefore we need to start change for the better of our future.

Two renewable alternatives to oil that are available are solar power and ethanol. Solar power will prevent the need of burning a lot of pounds of coal. The good thing with solar power is that there’s no acid rain, no urban smog overall no pollution of any kind. This will be amazing for our ecosystem. The government is trying to help with this because they know that investing in this can have environmental benefits. “Even long before society’s very existence is threatened by global warming, within the coming decades, global warming is projected to cost society trillions of dollars if left unabated. So, even ignoring the very long-term threat of societal suicide, fighting global warming with solar power will likely save society billions or even trillions of dollars”.(Shahan, 2013)

While many might say fossil fuels are better and more useful than alternative energy sources, I think fossil fuels are not better than alternative energy sources. Fossil fuels are not renewable sources of energy. This means that once you use a fossil fuel you can’t use it again. Fossil fuels will eventually run out, making the world think what do we do next. Also by the time fossil fuels run out the damages done by it may be irreversible. Before that happens we can start reducing the amount of fossil fuels used around the world.. Using alternative energy sources like wind energy, solar energy and hydroelectric energy we can reduce the amount of

Everyday in U.S., immense amount of fossil fuel is burned. Fossil fuels are fuel formed by natural processes, such as decomposition of buried dead organisms. Fossil fuel release carbon dioxide when they are burned which adds to the greenhouse effect and increases global warming. The way we can help the environment and reduce the amount of carbon dioxide is by replaying fossil fuels with solar and wind sources for electric power generations in the U.S.

“86% of the energy the USA uses comes from fossil fuels like petroleum and coal that provide electricity and gas to power our growing energy needs.” Fossil fuels are a non-renewable source of energy, meaning that we will eventually run out one day in the near future. When we drive our cars to work, taking long showers, and leaving the lights on, we usually don’t realize how much of our resources we are using. Fossil Fuels, Power Plants and Fracking cause many of our environmental problems that the world faces today due to our growing dependence on energy. These environmental problems include global warming, air quality deterioration, oil spills, and acid rain. Saving and producing energy from a renewable resource such as sunlight not only helps to conserve our limited resources but also translates into happiness, safety for our environment, boundless energy, and a personal benefit, such as financial savings. During the 18th century, massive quantities of fossil fuels were used to power the economy let alone the world. MHI states that “During the Industrial Revolution, fossil fuels seemed to be the ideal energy source because of its seemingly endless supply. Many machines during the Industrial Revolution such as the Steam locomotives, used coal as a form of energy which would fuel the machine early on to balance the lack of firewood and charcoal.” In this article about fossil fuels, it states that we continued to use coal because there was a seemingly endless supply of coal

The dependence on fossil fuels as the major source of energy for the World has had a negative impact on our ecosystem and climate. The emissions from the combustions of fossil fuels are the top reason for pollution on this planet. Carbon dioxide emitted from fossil fuels pollutes our atmosphere, and allows greenhouse gasses to accumulate and cause damage to the Earth, “That same month, scientists reported that Arctic sea ice, one of the most visible and important indicators of global climate change, was melting faster than most cli- mate models have predicted, raising the possibility that the summer Arctic will be nearly ice-free by as early as 2020,”(Overland and Wang, 2013).

If people on earth keep using fossil fuels at this rate earth will run out. by the year. Not only will the supply run out but earth 's temperatures will

Imagine a typical family rushing out of the house to go to work or school. Many of the simple things can be easily over looked, and while rushing out even more can be forgotten. Children can easily leave things plugged in and parents can forget to turn the light switches off. Fossil fuels are wasted each time someone forgets to conserve energy. This is a problem because fossil fuels are nonrenewable. This means that they can not be produced at the rate in which they are used. People of the United States should not have to worry about when fossil fuels are going to run out. The Environmental Protection Agency, also known as the EPA, should be given more control over how energy should be made. By doing so the EPA would be promoting the use of solar power to help make renewable and lasting energy. Solar power is a great use of alternative fuel because it protects the earth from further harm, it allows the earth to be protected and assures lasting power for the future.

The costs for installations are outrageous and it will take years just to make the installation fees back. If more of these expensive farms are built before we can research to get the price lowered, we will all be hurting through our tax dollars. So beware… solar technology isn’t as friendly as it seems!