Chapter 6 Transportation

Chapter six was mainly about the advancements made in the area of transportation and information. If you think about how we move around in the world today; cars, planes and ships; functioning as a society in the present time would be almost impossible. Going from one place to another would take much longer and transporting goods such as fossil fuels could be impossible. Basically all our forms of transportation require some sort of fossil fuel. So without our fossil fuels our transportation would not exist. Now with transportation today we can get from point A to point B very fast as well as transporting goods such as crude oil. Trains were the first form of transportation that really made transporting items more fast and efficient. Other forms of transport that helped were boats, cars and eventually planes. All of these helped make the country run more efficiently. Without fossil fuels our country would be horribly inefficient and many forms of transportation would not exist.

The chapter also talked about the advances in communication. We use to communicate by telegraph in the past to computers and cell phones today. In the past no one was really connected with each other; messages from across the country could take days to actually get there. Today we can instantly send a message to someone across the country and almost instantly get a message back. Just like our transportation our communication has gotten much more efficient, making our country as a whole more effective and more efficient.

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Questions

1.) Better transportation for a country means getting from point A to point B faster. The faster ones transportation is the faster we are able to transport items around the country. Making it much more efficient. If one state runs out of a particular product we can get it from across the country in only a couple of hours. This will mean we will always be able to have what we need when we need it.

2.) Instead of using fossil fuels to travel somewheres to deliver a message a simple text from a cellphone can be used to deliver it instantly. This goes for everyone everywhere which drastically decreases the amount of energy used if we did not have such advanced methods of communication.

Many countries make biking a necessity to travel. If were so concerned why have we not put any regulations like that?

Many companies are now beginning to come out with electric cars. If eventually everyone uses electric cars, how much energy would we be using to charge the car? Would it eventually equal the same amount of energy used by driving a regular car?