Short Essay Ideas

For my short essay I decided that I would like to focus on topic number 2. I believe that it will be very interesting viewing all the alternate ideas for the future in the automobile business. There are many different fuels out there that people have tried to use and I am going to research and see which ones have been and could be most effective. I would like to look at what the automobile companies are doing considering many people are not buying cars much anymore (or at least the bigger cars). How are these companies effected by the high gas prices? What are they doing to change this? I will also look at the automobile companies throughout the world to determine who is doing the best on selling and what their tactic is.

I would also like to look at what is happening with diesel vehicles with the prices of diesel also skyrocketing. How is this effecting farmers and truck drivers who are the major sources of our food? How do diesel powered vehicles differ from the gasoline powered vehicles?

What are people doing other than driving? Is there alternatives to the gas inflation? Are people buying different kinds of cars that do not necessarily need gasoline? I want to look at what cars are being developed that do not need to use gasoline to work. Is solar power an option? What about batteries?

I feel this topic will be interesting to research and I think I may find out some things that I do not know at this time that could be beneficial.