One relevant topic to sustainability is the carbon emissions from vehicles into our atmosphere. Recently there has been a United States increase in prices of gas and this can be beneficial for our future. Electric cars are becoming more practical with the ridiculously high gas prices. In the graph below, there are ten different states in the U.S. and their current price per gallon. As we can see, the different states have different prices which can be confusing to people wondering why it isn’t unanimous throughout all states. The data was collected from triple A where they collect data on gas prices daily. As we can see from the graph, California has the highest price per gallon and Texas has the lowest price per gallon. It would be interesting to find a correlation between the gas prices per state and the reason as to why they are all close, but different.
https://gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-price-averages/
I wonder how/why California’s gas prices are that much higher than other states. I also am surprised by how Hawaii’s prices are relatively higher I don’t know why exactly this surprises me but it does.
Thank you for sharing this. You briefly spoke on electrical cars and I wonder how that can contribute to gas prices and carbon emissions.
I think it’s so interesting that California’s prices are higher than Hawaii’s, because so much more transportation and effort is need to get oil there (or at least I would imagine). High gas prices are common during times of war, and eventually they go down, but I think it’s interesting that you think this time it will mean a push to electric cars.