One result of the growth in vehicles and their production, is that worldwide cars, trucks, buses and other motor vehicles are playing an ever increasingly important role in global climate change and air pollution.
As large oil consumers, motor vehicles are major sources of carbon dioxide, VOCs, nitrogen oxides, the precursors in the latter cases to both tropospheric ozone and acid raid, carbon monoxide and even chlorofluorocarbons. Motor vehicles are also the major source of toxic compounds in most of our urban areas.
Virtually the entire motor vehicle fleet runs on fossil fuels, primarily oil, and for every 15 gallon fill-up at a service station, about 300 pounds of carbon dioxide are eventually released into the atmosphere. Globally, motor vehicles account for about a third of the world’s oil consumption and about 14 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning.
For the United States, motor vehicles cause about 50 percent of oil demand and about 25 percent of our carbon dioxide emissions. Widespread and pervasive smog, which comes from the hydrocarbons and the gasses from vehicles, will be a long-term problems in many areas of the world unless more stringent controls on vehicles and other sources are adopted. Areas of rapid industrialization are now starting to note similar air pollution problems to those of the industrialized world. I
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