Petrol Free Vehicles

[dimpy.handa]

Cars which use less environmentally damaging fuel sources than petrol would be good for the protection of the environment. Petrol and diesel engines produce pollution both on a local and a global scale, contributing to poor health and global warming.

 

[swatiraohnlu]

Cars which use less environmentally damaging fuel sources than petrol would be good for the protection of the environment. Petrol and diesel engines produce pollution both on a local and a global scale, contributing to poor health and global warming. They are also a major consumer of non-renewable energy, depleting global reserves and making us dependent upon oil-rich states for our energy security. Therefore, a scheme which can encourage people to use alternative fuels instead of petrol will have a positive environmental, economic and political impact.

 

[swatiraohnlu]

An incentive would be an effective way to encourage more widespread use of non-petrol cars. New technologies can be expensive to research and are often prohibitively expensive in their early stages, before there is a critical mass of adoption. This is a vicious circle that means that as the dominant fuel, petrol has an inbuilt defensive advantage against new, possibly competitive rivals. A form of incentivisation would provide an effective method of negating this disadvantage faced by non-petrol cars, even if it was only used during the initial phases before the alternatively fuelled cars were more widely used.

 

[swatiraohnlu]

Non-petrol cars are not what the car driving public wants. Having weighed the various factors, if drivers decided that the benefits of non-petrol cars were of a certain standard, they would buy them in large enough numbers not to attract subsidisation. The fact that they do not is an indication that those drivers are happy enough driving petrol cars.