A: Plan of The Investigation. The objective of this investigation is to research the question of the development of the automobile’s influence on fuel efficiency relative to the whole of United States fuel efficiency on a residential, commercial, and industrial scale. Fuel is defined by Merriam Webster as “a material (such as coal, oil, or gas) that is burned to produce heat or power”, and it will be used as such along the length of this investigation. This investigation will facilitate many sources and analyze the information that they present, and determine the answer to the question. B: Summary of evidence. …show more content…
Another example is of the gradual research of more efficient and powerful engines.
This book is critical to the investigation because of the plentiful amount of information present in the book that displays the automobile’s industrial contributions (in the instance of how its research and development led to many modern marvels.), as well as its polluting ability leading to the pursuit of increasing fuel efficiency on a worldwide level.
“The End of Detroit” - By Micheline Maynard
This book is focused on the “Big Three” automotive companies based in Detroit, and their commercial downfall due to customer appeal issues. This book is sourced from the author’s wide array of interviews with many influential members of the auto world.
The plot of this book is focused on the inevitable fall of the primary United States large- scale auto manufacturers, and the effects of their fall. This book shares a similar strength of focus on detroit as “How Detroit Became the ‘Automotive Capital of The World’”.
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The limitation of this source is the book’s primary focus on the history of the car itself.
“How Detroit Became the ‘Automotive Capital of The World’” - By Robert Tata
Upon evaluation, this book is integral to this investigation, because throughout its writing, it bears many examples of how the automobile contributed to efficiency and the world’s pursuit of energy efficiency.
D: Analysis. The historical importance of this investigation was to locate the key portion of the auto world’s influence on the fuel efficiency and environmental movement. This is important because a large portion of modern day is heavily focused towards achieving very high levels of efficiency and “saving the environment”, these ideals are present in not just the auto industry now, but all areas of industry, commerce, and residential society. Automobiles even today are seen as the largest source of air pollution in the United States, and automotive manufacturers are developing ways to reducing the amount of pollution produced by automobiles. The technology and motives brought up from the discovery of global warming spread very quickly across society, and led to the United States government placing incentives favoring more economical cars, and those motives spread to other fields,