Alternative Fuels for Motor Vehicles

Did you know that you can receive a maximum of a $7,500 tax credit for just owning an electric or hybrid vehicle? The United States government values citizens that buy fuel efficient vehicles because it gets the United States one step closer to not buying outsourced oil (Jones par.14). Hybrid vehicles are vehicles that are mostly powered by gasoline, but switch over to electric at stop signs or at coasting speeds. Electric cars are cars that are solely powered by electric from start up to shut down (Motavalli par. 6). Most cars and trucks on the road today are powered by gasoline or diesel engines, which are expensive to operate, bad for the environment, and use resources that are non renewable. To achieve better fuel economy, lower operation cost, reduce the pollution on the environment, and operate vehicles with renewable resources, this world needs to take a better look at using alternative fuels to power vehicles. Alternative fuels for motor vehicles are better for the environment, are renewable resource, and are cheaper for consumers.
The first reason alternative fuels should be used is to better the environment. One way of bettering the environment and finding a fuel that would no longer depend on outsourced oil and other fossil fuels would be to create a man made fuel that would power many different vehicles. Another way to better the environment would be to introduce a fuel that vehicles could use that would have less pollution or no pollution and would not harm the environment.
First of all there is one well known way of making a man made oil which eventually becomes gasoline or diesel fuel, that has been around for a long time, it is called bio fuel. Bio fuel is a fuel that is made from plants or other growin...

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...e is a small gasoline engine built into the vehicle that will charge the batteries while you drive, using this small engine to charge the volt while you drive will still yield a thirty seven mile per gallon average. But charging the vehicle every day and driving it to its full forty mile range will yield a staggering ninety eight miles per gallon average, which is much greater than an average pure gasoline or diesel engine.
As stated before an owner of an alternative fuel powered vehicle can receive up to a $7,500 tax credit, but to some the tax credit does not outweigh the upfront cost of the vehicle (Jones par.14). Although a new chevy volt cost about $40,000 if receiving $7,500 off the cost of that vehicle the final cost would be around $32,500 which is about the same cost as a new high end luxury car that would not receive ninety eight mile per gallon average.