blog prompt 6 and 7

A couple of the things which make the world go round and lets people live and do the things they want to do this present day is resources, money and transport. In an ideal world we would have unlimited resources to use and money wouldn’t be a problem for countries or people and transport would be very cheap, easy, quick and sustainable. Unfortunately these are all the problems that the world and the countries and people are facing at the moment because of the way we live and have developed. There would be a debate of whether there is a transport problem or not either way we would still have to change the transport system and what we use to run it.


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My views on the transport system is that it works and it carries people in a decent time and gets them there safely with transport in the country taking you to most destinations you can think of in the UK. There is only a transport problem in the country at the moment if you think there is a problem but if you don’t think there is a problem then to you there isn’t one. I think there is only one problem with transport and that is what fuel we are using to run the transport system as that is the only part which isn’t sustainable. If i was going to be a bit picky i would also say that sometimes transport isn’t very reliable such as virgin trains never run on time and are usually cancelled. Transport by cars is exactly the same as other transport that it needs to run on fuel which is sustainable to the world so we are able to keep running automobiles because without petrol cars would be obsolete. It would also affect everything to do with goods i.e. getting the raw material transporting it and then making it into a product and transporting it that whole process would not work and break down. So you have to look at the way we rely on travel to provide us with everything and wonder how much longer we can keep this up and how much oil is left to fund our need.
the benefits of motorized transport allow us to live like we do today, do the things we want to do today like go on holiday buy goods that weren’t always available go places we could never go before. But with all these benefits of motorized transport there are also going to be costs we would need to make such as using resources which we know aren’t renewable at a ridiculous rate. So what are the costs of motorized transport here are some I thought of
• Major use and reliance on fossil fuels
• Use of resources to make motorized vehicles
• Congestion
• Accidents that are caused
• Reliance
• Carbon dioxide emissions (don’t believe it but thought I’d put it in)
All these are problems just transport brings on its own without acknowledging the people who drive these motorized vehicles and all the things they do which affect other thing as well.
This calls out the need for a sustainable fuel which we will be able to use over and over again without it ever depleting one bit and wouldn’t give off emissions but then again i might as well wish for £1m pounds to be in my bed when I wake up. Some people believe that we have faced all problems by developing and using technology to solve problems but that was when the world didn’t matter so we did what we want. With this problem we are trying to find a sustainable fuel which doesn’t affect anything and can use over and over again. This is the only problem which needs to be addressed in motorized vehicles right now all other problems can wait and will have to wait other it will be too late. To address the other problems we need to have fuel if we address say congestion and everybody can drive freely without too much congestion what happens when we have no fuel to drive freely without any congestion. There have been some advances with cars with Toyota having a car which runs using a hydrogen fuel cell which is emission free and hydrogen can be reproduced easily although not sure about the price. Then there is also electric cars which are being made available in England and not those silly G-whizz cars but proper cars but with an electric engine.



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What motorized transport has allowed us to do is everything we wanted to be able to do and now we have done it we have properly thought we could have done it better. We rely such much on motorized transport that if we were to lose it no one would survive, no one would know what to do or even how to do it. The only and one way I think we can still have our motorised transport is with a sustainable fuel it will let us carry on living the way we are but without the use of fossil fuels and loads of pollution. Tackling this one problem will allow us to address the other issues without the worry of fuel or pollution.