Chemistry to the Rescue!

With repugnant levels of carbon dioxide emissions now clearly taking a disastrous toll on the environment, governments are attempting to reduce the excess of carbon dioxide produced mainly by the cars and the manufacturing industry. The Obama administration has enacted a proposal to reduce this amount, but the same end could be achieved through different, simpler means through chemistry! New innovations in chemistry have led to a process which converts carbon dioxide into methanol. Not only is this alcohol using in manufacturing, it is also successful as a fuel for vehicles. It's production can also generate a large amount of money, and honestly with a sixteen-trillion dollar debt, the U.S. needs all the money it can get right now! Carbon dioxide as well as shale gas can be converted into methanol which can serves a more economic and better performing fuel than gasoline and ethanol. With new innovations in the car industry creating engines better suited to run on methanol, this new process can both make a large dent in carbon dioxide emissions and transform the global economy. Minor congressional acts would have to be passed to permit the use of this fuel in the transportation world. Nevertheless, thanks chemistry! Read more in the article: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324577304579057623877297840
     While the U.S. is eager to use it's policy of throwing money at any problem for carbon dioxide emissions, chemistry provides a much more economic alternative. This process of changing a once thought to be useless bi-product into a high-performing fuel can revolutionize the world we live in. This is why we must study chemistry, to improve lives and make inferences in order to create solutions to everyday problems. With sporadic weather patterns, raising sea levels, and other bad side effects, green house gases have become the villain of our environment. Imagine a world where never-ending smoke stacks no longer come out of factory chimneys and are instead converted into methanol! If only this process was around during the Industrial Revolution!