Many years since the mid-eighteenth century society in America have created order by which making a government under a constitutional protection of property and freedom to establish control. America’s famous democracy has sparked major controversy since the late 1930s, when president Franklin Delano Roosevelt defined, “Its the control of government by big corporations.” Big businesses including oil companies, Nestle, and Kraft control the government, which the government controls the American people. This problem ripples from one side to another like dominos falling in a staight line. America has the highest child poverty, highest adult poverty, highest unemployment rate, with a crumbling public structure - however, huge multi-billionaire …show more content…
They stated that carbon emissions do not impact the earth and that global warming is normal on earth. The government bought it! (Probably since oil companies control their actions) They only trusted what the corporation told them, but not the American people. Many studies from universities and various scientist have found evidence that fossil fuel emissions have a huge impact on the world. Historically, America has sided with big oil companies mainly for economic purposes. In the movie Who Killed the Electric Car, is a prime example of corporation control that overthrew the governments power. The electric car was revolutionary when it was invented; however, after six years the electric car was recalled and destroyed. The answer to why they were recalled was that the oil companies were afraid that they were going to lose their monopoly, so they destroyed all the electric vehicles. The government did nothing to intervene; however, they allowed the corporation to do what they wanted to do to keep their funding towards the government. Executive director for Energy and Climate Solutions, Joseph J. Romm accurately declares, “There is no question that today oil companies control the government and incentives to discourage alternatives.” Like in the movie corporations do control the government's choice and actions for the
The top five Oil and Gas companies are: Saudi Aramco, Gazprom, National Iranian Oil Company, ExxonMobil and PetroChina. These company work together by using some sort of scare tatic in order to raise fuel prices. Take ExxonMobil for example, these companys have combinded forces in the United to States. These companies tell the American people gas prices went up due to the fact that there oil refineories are under maintaince. As a result gas price increase Where as in the 1990’s when these were two serpeate companies they had to compete with each other and prices were much lower. The growth in capitalism has
If the government decides to continue with the drilling of new sites or expand the Keystone XL Pipeline there are environmental dangers and concerns to follow and still not enough oil production to fuel the countries demand. The importing of oil from foreign countries would still be a necessity. For now the prices of gasoline are still on the rise and with use of the oil money future tool prices are sure to continue rising. As it seems in this current economic crisis, consumers need to make their voice heard with the government and hope something will change with the way oil is produced and imported to lower the cost for everyone.
Governments would traditionally act as a force of the people, by the people and for the people, but recently however, corporations have placed themselves within this relationship, to influence governments to act in their favor. A notable example in this sense is represented by the oil drilling companies, which continue to pollute and prevent alternative sources of energy from developing. Exxon Mobil has for instance spent millions of dollars to prove that global warming is a make belief phenomenon, rather than a real threat (Mandia).
The former president of the United States, Barak Obama and his administration went through one of the biggest environmental controversies. The issue was related to the construction of oil pipeline called the keystone XL pipeline. The purpose of this project is to transport thousands of tons of crude oil a day from Canada to the United States. The United States is an industrialized country that consumes more than 15 million barrels of oil every day. More than half of this oil is imported from foreign countries including Venezuela and Saudi Arabia (Lee, 2015). The keystone XL pipeline project will basically allow the United States to reduce its oil importation and become more independent. The president refused to give his
General motors is a relevant social group because they are the ones who manufactured and sold the EV1. They originally decided to abide by the
The story of the monopoly of oil by the Standard Oil Trust is one of the more dramatic storylines in the history of the U.S. economy. This monopoly on oil occurred at a time when the United States was in the middle of a transformation from an agricultural society to the greatest industrial economy the world has ever seen. The effects of the Standard Oil monopoly on the U.S., and the world, were immeasurable, and the lessons that can be learned from this incredible story are as applicable today as they were a hundred years ago (www.linfo.org, 2004).
Title: Oil Companies Need to Be Held Accountable Topic: Why oil companies need to be held accountable and how to make sure they are held accountable Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience how oil companies are not being held accountable for their actions and why it is important that they are. Thesis: Oil companies need to be held accountable for their actions. Introduction Attention Material: April 20th, 2010 was the mark of a very sad period.
The public in America is disillusioned to believe that they run the government as they are on the top in the hierarchy of democracy. However in practice the incidents suggests that the rich are ruling the country while the general public is left with no choice but to follow the rules set in favor of the few. Ironically, there is an indifference towards this attitude in the general public as it is seen as a part of the American dream.
The oil companies are bad citizens due to many reasons. First, they built an opposition against electric cars because they saw them as a threat. They, also, took the time to financially campaign
The government often times will play the blame game when things are not going according to plan, or more importantly, according to the government’s plan. Since the summer of 2008 when gas prices reaches a record high or $4.12 a gallon the we’ve loved to blame the oil companies and the government for the increasing prices of gasoline. Who is responsible for high gas prices? Oil production dropped during the Bush administration but has risen by about 20% during Obama’s presidency, making it clear that domestic oil production has little effect of the price of gasoline. Why then to politicians continue to blame high gasoline prices on the oil companies? Congress has restricted the building of oil refineries and the drilling of oil in Alaska offshore for over 15 years. These restrictions have greatly reduced the supply of domestic oil. The
On November 16th, 1901, an electric car called the “Torpedo Racer”, which wasn’t much more than a platform with bike wheels on it, set the land speed record for electric cars. This feat was achieved in Coney Island, New York by a man named Andrew Riker. he wasable to drive a mile in about 1 minute and 3 seconds. (That’s about 57 mph. in case you were wondering.) That was fast for the time, but the speed record for electric cars today is around 245 mph, so his record could probably be broken by a bike that has a few modifications added to it. However, he did hold on to this record for the next 10 years, and that alone says a lot about how slow everything was back then. I like cars, but i don’t know as much about them as others do. This article
Through life journey most everybody had a car at one point in time but not too many people had an electric car. In a one on one interview with Marland Patton, who is a mechanic, give his advice on the electric car. His thoughts on the electric car was it has it benefits and loses. He goes on to say that, the maintenance cost yearly greatly exceed the amount of gas car.
America today has an addiction, gasoline an overpriced fuel that we use daily in our lives. In the film Who Killed the Electric Car they talk about the murder of the electric car, a car that is eco friendly, reliable, and is not costing us lives in the middle east. This addiction we have is costing us lives, over using natural resources, and prices are going up every year. The electric car is not just a social problem it is a political problem that has gone for profit than to actually solve economic issues.
Electric cars are becoming very popular in today’s world and are becoming more main stream. One reason for this is the need for automobiles that have a lower or a zero carbon footprint. For the majority of the history of the automobile, the propulsion system was a gas or a diesel engine that would run off of fossil fuels. The burning of fossil fuels is very hazardous to our world and also creates much toxic pollution. However, electric cars run off of electricity, which is a very clean and pollution free resource, depending on how the electricity was produced of course. In this paper we are going to examine the history of electric cars, look into modern electric car technology, and peer into the future of electric car technology to see if EVs might be the answer to dramatically reducing our global pollution.
Technology has been advancing since the turn of the century at an unparalleled pace with the constant announcement of new gadgets and innovations. Of the thousands of new technological advancements made in the past decade, the introduction of the electric car has been the most widely discussed topic. Electric cars are one hundred percent emission free and can replace the fire spitting, bone chilling sounds of a thunderous gasoline engine with the eloquent silence of luxury and speed. However, as with all things technological, electric vehicles have their problems. Electric cars have several benefits and could possibly replace gas cars in the future, but they are not refined enough to take over the world today because of a few technicalities