Do you feel that we have a healthy environment?
It has been proven that hybrid vehicles are good for the environment. Do you believe these cars can help towards a better future? If you were forced to only be able to buy a Hybrid vehicle (an electric/gas) would you be opposed to it? Why?
Do you recycle or just throw away your trash in a garbage can? How about Styrofoam, for example? Did you know that Styrofoam not only holds in more heat, but by using it for insulation in your house, it will also lower the cost of your utility bills?
What can we do to make our lives more environmentally friendly around us and our homes?
What would you be willing to do knowing you would be able to have more cash if you were more environmentally friendly?
Cameron Smucker
17 comments:
I think that hybrid cars are a good and bad thing. Hybrid cars are great for the environment, but are one of the most dangerous cars. My brother in law is a firefighter and lots of times he says that firefighters can only stand there at a crash site and watch because there is so much battery acid when you crash a hybrid that it becomes very flammable and dangerous. So many firefighters have died trying to rescue people from these hybrid crashes. I think if they figured out a way to make hybrids safer then ofcourse I would be alright with buying one, but until then... no thank you.
Kevin McBride
I do not feel as though we live in a healthy environment. There are all kinds of information and warnings everywhere about how we need to be more eco friendly. Hybrid cars are definitely a good start at moving towards being more green, but the problem is getting people to buy them. If I was forced to buy a hybrid car I would be a little upset because I love traditional cars, but I would not be too upset. I would not be upset because if I was being forced to buy a hybrid, that would tell me the environment is in such bad condition people were being forced to do so to save the evironment. With the way the economy is now, and how expensive everything is becoming, I would be open to being more environmentally friendly if I knew that I could save money. Nothing wrong with accomplishing two tasks in one.
Kenneth East
Hybrid cars are good. Honestly i don't know a whole lot about it, but there aren't enough people riding one to make much difference on the environment. The only thing i recycle are soda cans. Other than that, i throw everything else away in the trash. Recycling is great for the environment, but disasters like the oil spill is making things worse. I disagree with earning more cash when recycling. If we want to recycle, the people that work there will only take in certain things like bottle or paper. When they send you somewhere else, it's like "why am i doing this?" It's great that there are people who recycle but i don't have time to go every two weeks or store recyclables in our house or garage. I'll leave it for someone else.
Samantha Odendaal
I think hybrid cars are wonderful for the environment, but I would never get one. I am not a fan of the way the hybrid cars are being manufactured. Most of the cars these days are fiberglass and they bang up very easily. Even though older models are bad for the environment I still would prefer and American Muscle any day. As far as a healthy enviornment I think we are on out way, but we still need work. Some people are starting to jump on the band wagon, but there are still many like myself who still have not changed their daily routines.
Julius Ervin
I'm always trying to buy the "Go Green" cleaning products because they are better for the environment. The whole turning the AC up and turning the heat down to save money. Recycling is so simple it should just be done. With the economy the way it is, if "Go Green" is a money saver, then it might end up being the way most people will drift.
Sarah Albin
I don't think we have a very friendly environment. Champaign alone seems to be somewhat dirty sometimes from cars and litter, being in chicago is disgusting sometimes. If I could stick garbage (Such as Styrofoam) in between the walls of my house, gaining the ability to have a cheaper heating bill and helping out the world hell yeah I would do it. Personally I think hybrid cars suck, but I'm big into automotive sports cars. Being forced to only buy these cars wouldn't work very well due to their cost and not every one having that kind of money. I'll pass on it but to help my environment by reducing garbage and dump sites I'd be down.
Matt Funk
I don't think hybrid cars are going to save the world. I think the only way they would help the environment is if everyone in the world had one, which is not going to happen.The whole world would have to pitch in to make our world a better place.I think we need to recycle more and educate children about it more and , maybe that would help their future but , it will take alot of time. It took alot of years for the world to have a bad environment, it will take a long time to fix it. Dawn Smith
That the environment has taken a hit is hard to miss; just look at the the gulf oil spill right now. What started out as a clean, natural and wonderful world has been greatly abused by WAY too many selfish people for WAY too long. Normal wear and tear by the world's population would be strain enough to push the limits, but the level of abuse being dished out world wide, by people AND industry is almost beyond comprehension.
The United States(as well as other countries)has made a concerted effort to educate its people. However, even within the US, without having mandatory guidelines, or an organized, consistent effort, including people and industry alike, the effort to recycle, conserve and hold the line on pollution barely scratches the surface. The abuse of industries alone is unconscionable. Research the EPA website to see just how often "Big Business" simply pays the fines and continues to pollute(sad). Take that situation and multiply it world wide where there are no health & safety guidelines. Researching International damage to the environment will curl your hair (if it didn't make it fall out first). With no police state to control the actions of the abusers, what they are able to do is out of our control. Dealing with that issue also opens a huge political can of worms. Numerous environmentalist are engaged in fighting that battle right now and while I don't always agree with everything they do, I understand the original desires.
Small efforts, like the recycling and conservation done in our twin cities, could make a significant dent if people would simply DO it. Too often, we take the economical, lazy or convenient way out and toss what could have been recycled. Watch garbage cans at a football game. Recyclable water bottles alone make up a huge portion of the content. (I understand security prohibits taking in personal containers. That's not my point.) Recycling or reusing those bottles (not to mention the cans included with them)would make a huge impact.
So many times we snicker at the elderly about reusing their cheese cartons or margarine tubs over and over again. Many of them lived through the depression and learned years before it was "fashionable" to recycle. Maybe we should learn from their examples to reuse things. After all, even many throw away cups can survive the dishwasher.
Purchasing correctly is also an issue. We are such a throw away/personal convenience generation that the items we buy are usually extremely over packaged, thus more garbage. Consider each morning as you race out the door. Are you grabbing an individually wrapped "Pop Tart" or snack bar? Are you using a throw away or reusable cup for your coffee? Then again, maybe it is a race past the fast food drive up. Throw away??? Sure! Not to bash any of those activities, but do you see how quickly our garbage piles up? Why do you think you have to take it out so often, or hear those trucks every day? We are garbage gluttons!
Every person can and should do their part to conserve. Whether it is with the hybrid car mentioned, turning down the thermostat or recycling and reusing containers. Just like people recycled aluminum cans when the price was good, maybe there is a way to switch "paying TO recycle" to "pay FOR recycling" which might interest more people to comply. Who Know? The tightening of the economy just might help out with the environmental effort.
that last LONG comment was from Joann Logsdon
i read somewhere once that things say they are better for the environment becaue they dont use as much gas, or oil, or whatever but they end up using a lot of energy so its just as bad. i dont think we have a healthy enviornment at all and i dont think whats being done is even close to enough to help. i dont think anything our government says or big corporations do is the truth, i think they just try keeping us calm and in the normal by lying to us. sam tomson
I don't think we live in a healthy environment. Yeah i know people are trying to make it better with the go green and everything but not everyone is following along with it. I think the world would be much better and healthier if everyone recycled. The hybrid car i guess it could be good to say money gas wise, but other then that it takes a lot of electricity for that car to charge. So thats not making you really save your money in any way. That money is going towards your electric bill. All i know is that i would not buy one.
Aubrey Welch
I would like to start recycling but, I have never actually gotten it accomplished as of yet. I look forward to a earth that will be clean one day soon. So many people have taken the act of recycling seriously, I would like to remember that alot people have contributed to their own way by giving up used tin cans, and plastic bags. I believe that if we got together, and if everyone would join, we could clean up our neighborhoods. If the city department can come down on people for their yards, then why not for the areas around people's yards? Stricter laws against pollution of city streets ,may help as well. Tracey Boswell
I do feel that we do need to be more enviornmental friendly because it not only benefit humans but nature and the animals as well. If we can recycle more in stead of just throwing everything away it will make a great difference in a positive way. Having a hybrid vehicle is good for the enviornment because you don't have all those toxicens in the air. And if changing my bad habits to help the enviornment and also save me some cash I would definitly be willing to give it a try.
S.Cooper
Hybrid Cars are very dangerous to drive. As a firefighter I can't tell you the number of crashes I have been too, and there is nothing we can do, because of the high voltage lines, and like Kevin said the Acid. I am not going to hurt myself while helping someone if I can help it. I do believe we need to help in making a cleaner earth, but I feel that their is a diffrent way...
Cody C.
I have a different view of hybrid cars. I don't see the as significantly different from any other vehicular advancement. As far as I am concerned, hybrid engines are just the next level in car technology. It shouldn't be considered different, because in a few years it will probably be standard that almost every new vehicle will be in some way a hybrid.
Hybrid engines are standard engines. They just have an added part that stores extra electricity that traditionally goes to waste from various processes throughout the vehicle, then outputs that energy through a separate electric powered engine. The electric engines tend to be low horsepower, so for fuel economy they tend to shut off the gas engine and run the electric engine at low speeds. I think because of this hybrids get a bad rap as weak vehicles. There are vehicles designed so that the engines run primarily on gas and use to electric motor to increase horsepower. Considering this, the only reason not to have a hybrid car would be the extra cost of the components. As the technology improves and production gets cheaper, I see that eventually almost all cars will be manufactured hybrid in some way.
I often struggle with the idea that I could be more environmentally conscious. Sometimes (most of the time) I find I'm just too lazy to drive my crap down the recycling center. I know I should, I know it'll make a slight difference in the long run, and that I can't expect other people to care about the environment if I don't. All that considered, I just don't do it. In any case, I don't sweat the issue too much, because I know there will always be something more I could do for the environment. In that regard, I do what I can, and what I want, and don't let it bother me when I don't.
David Nadermann
No I don't think that we have a very healthy environment. As for the hybrid cars i think it's a start i would never own one as they are death traps and the fact that I enjoy the sounds and smell of gasoline burning. If we really wanted to help our environment we would land all aircraft and never fly again. Airplanes put more pollutants into the atmosphere than anything else. They burn more fuel than anythings else but cause us great convenience. So in my opinion we can do all we want on the ground but if planes are still in the air with high octane fuel changing our cars won't do much.
we do not have a healthy environment it is too many toxic chemicals nowadays in the air messing up the ozone layer.
Chadd Bailey noon
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