Transportation
Throughout history, the transportation of everything from goods, people and animals to food, water
and other resources has become a necessary amenity in our daily lives. In the past, transport was
limited to that by foot, row or sail boats, sleds and horses or other working animals. Now we travel
by rail, road, water or air in a wide variety of machine powered vehicles, all of which continue to
improve as time goes on. No longer does man have to pretend and try to prove he didn't need to ask
for directions to the nearest village. Now it takes much less time to get from one place to another,
we can ask the vehicles we drive for directions, and every form of transportation available today is
used nearly as much for sport as it is for transport.
Public transportation is now provided nearly everywhere in the world, though many of us prefer private transport if given the choice. Either way, if the means of transport we use isn't environmentally friendly and renewable, affordable and independent of foreign oil, resources needed to power the vehicles we drive will continue to dwindle, fuel prices will continue to rise, our leaders will continue to make decisions that affect us all based on our dependency on other countries for oil, and eventually what fuel sources remain will dwindle to nothing at all. This of course would likely have a global spiraling effect on fuel economy, transportation industries and the transport of food, water and other necessary resources, as well as on the economy as a whole. Hence, renewable fuels, alternative vehicles and other transportation alternatives are in great demand, and the more of us there are using earth friendly, economical, self-sufficient forms of fuels and transportation, the more of us there are to reduce pollution, to support these markets and industries (financially and otherwise), and the more affordable such products and services will become in the future.
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