Trend paper draft 2

Jordan DoMonte



Prius sales have gone down 45 percent since last year, but driving fuel efficient cars is now becoming a trend despite the poor sales. The number of sales for other eco friendly cars has gone up, and by 2014 over half of the united states population will have these green cars in their garages. Every major car company is working on or has made atleast one fuel efficient automobile, and many more will be available on the market.

But what has caused people to suddenly want these eco friendly cars? In America, it's not because they want to save the environment, high gas prices have caused people to think twice about choosing the right car. And the high gas prices are due to limited fossil fuel resources, and a number of other complications. Eventually, all of our fossil fuels will be used up, and we're already finding it harder to reach them.

The economy is also playing a big part in this, as it is with almost everything. It's a fact, money's tight, we don't have that much money to be spending on gas guzzling, behemoth suv's and trucks. We have to be smart about our money, and green cars are a great way to do so. Some cars have a system where using the stepping on the breaks can actually generate power to fuel the car! Take that, Hummer.

Although the ads say we should buy them to save the environment, all we reallly want is to save a couple bucks. Trucks and SUV's are really costly to fill up, but we need them to tend to the larger families, so now we're seeing more and more of them as fuel efficient. Although there are now stricter emissions standards for new cars, we still see people driving gas guzzlers from the 70's and 80's, because these cars are just a cheaper buy. Again, money being the reason for the car, and not whether it's environmental or not.

Another reason these cars are becoming a trend is because the cars aren't only cheap on gas, but cheap themselves. The Toyota Yaris is 12,000 dollars brand new, yet gets 30mpg, being a cheap car, and cheap on gas. The brand new Honda Civic are around 15,000 dollars, and get about 28 mpg's, and are a popular choice among teenagers. Even American car makers including Chevrolet have been putting out cheap, fuel efficient cars. The Chevy Aveo is economically sane at 11,000 dollars, and evironmentally safe with 32 mpg's!

So, as you drive down your streets, you'll probably be seeing more smaller cars, and cars that are really fuel efficient. Since companies have started making these cars, and people have been driving them, we've saved 230 millions gallons of oil! The percentage of Hybrid owners is at 2 percent, but due to incredible sales, is expected to go another 10 percent in the next five years. We'll be saving a lot more oil which we could be putting to other uses, and could also end conflict between oil countries.



So, because of the shortage of fossil fuels, the rough economy,(and in other parts of the world, the environment) we're seeing more fuel efficient cars. And no matter what your reason is for buying one, it's always a good thing.

Post Write
It's a significant improvement from the last draft. The intro again, works well. Also, the transitions from paragraph to paragraph are good. Also, I more closely defined the causes and effects of the trend, and made it a bit longer.
The paragraphs I think are organized, but could be organized a bit better. Maybe some of the paragraph topics aren't so clear.