Privately Owned Gasoline Powered Vehicles Should Be Limited
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Social Studies 10H
The automobile has become a very important part of today's society. It
is a necessity to own or to have access to a car in order to keep up with all of
the competition of the business world, and also one's social demands. Most
people would not be able to travel around a country ....
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.... are harmful to our environment. Automobiles run on gasoline, which
is a mixture derived from petroleum. Gasoline contains hundreds of different
hydrocarbons, or compounds containing the chemical elements carbon and
hydrogen(Gasoline). When the gas is burned in the engine of the car, several
byproducts result. These exhausts include hydrocarbons and oxides of three
elements: Carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur(Emissions). Tiny amounts of poisonous
trace elements such as lead, cadmi ....
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