Air Pollution - Auto Emissions

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Air Pollution – Auto Emissions


Introduction

Automobiles have revolutionized America’s economy, completely reinvented America’s lifestyle, and caused the creation of the methods of mass production we use today. Petroleum, once a practically useless commodity, is sold and bought by million barrels. Hundreds of thousands of jobs were created to fill the thousands of automobile-producing factories that have sprung up. The American lifestyle was completely reinvented to accommodate the automobile. Cities spread out, suburbs sprang up and railroads and horses faced obsolescence. Farmers were able to bring their goods to market much faster and over longer distances. Factory workers, once imprisoned to the very place they worked, were able to live much farther away while still being able to get to work on time. The automobile completely and forever changed America.
The automobile was the most defining force in America during the first half of the twentieth century. No other invention or innovation has touched as many aspects of our society as the automobile. It allowed Americans for the first time to actually utilize the freedom granted them in the constitution. Americans no longer forced to follow set paths laid down years ago. They could travel wherever they pleased whenever they pleased. The automobile allowed people to set their own schedule, and have the freedom to leave for work when they wanted, not when the train left. America’s entire lifestyle changed with the coming of the automobile. Cities were no longer the only place to find urban comforts. People were able to live in nice, comfortable communities, instead of right next to loud, grimy factories. The automobile sparked the creation of the methods of production used even now. Without the automobile, the idea of mass production and selling a lot of things cheaply would not have been near as persuasive as it is today. The automobile has remade every part of America...