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When gasoline burns in car engines there are two resulting problems. The first problem with gasoline is smog and ozone build up in major cities. The second problem that results is the amount of carbon that is released and greenhouse gases. If gasoline burned in engines the way that scientist and most people would like it to then it would just produce carbon dioxide and water in the exhaust. Unfortunately, the internal combustion engine is not perfect. In the process of burning the gasoline, it also produces carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and unburned hydrocarbons. Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas, nitrogen oxides are the reason for smog build up, and unburned hydrocarbons are the main source of urban ozone. Each day the U.S releases about 2 million pounds of carbon monoxide into the atmosphere. To resolve some of these problems the use of Catalytic converters are becoming popular. Catalytic Converters eliminate much of this pollution, but they do not eliminate 100% of the pollution released from car exhausts.

The driving force behind this is problem is that fact that people today depend on fossil fuels so much that they are being burned out of control. There are also problems with petroleum. Some problems come from oil spills, global warming, and ozone alerts are all blamed on our dependence on fossil fuels. These problems are being resolved with the "hydrogen economy." If the predictions are true, over the next several decades we will all begin to see an amazing shift away from the fossil fuel economy we have today toward a much cleaner hydrogen future

Critics would say that burning gasoline is not the best way to go. They would say this because burning gasoline releases outrageous amounts of carbon monoxide into our atmosphere, leads to global warming, and it releases greenhouse gases. The critics might suggest that the people of our generation look into the production of the Hydrogen Economy. This new economy should eliminate the pollution that is caused by the burning of fossil fuels. When hydrogen is burning in fuel cells then the only this that is produced is water. Also no greenhouse gases will be released into the air because this is completely clean technology. The third advantage would be that there would be no dependence on oil so the war in the middle east for their oil would not need to continue on. There fourth advantage would be that hydrogen can be produced anywhere that there is water and electricity so it will be very easy to get.

Gasoline makes up most of the world's fuel/energy supply because no automobile can run without being supplied with gasoline. It is used in cars, planes, buses, planes, just about everything source of transportation. If your drive around you see multiple gas stations with gas at very high prices, this shows just how important gasoline is to everyone. Gasoline contributes to problems going on around the world, causing pollution. There is so much gasoline going around and it all pollutes the air, not good. Every car on the Earth uses gasoline to fuel their car, so in other words everbody who owns a car uses this technology called gasoline.





http://science.howstuffworks.com/gasoline5.htm

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/hydrogen-economy2.htm