When I was younger, I remember begging my mother in every toy aisle of the department store to at least buy one hot wheel car of my choice. I had a problem; I had an incessant thirst for these little cars in those recyclable blue cardboard and plastic packages. I pretended to be a small person, small enough to fit in the nice cars I bought with just a glimmer of hope that maybe I could get in and drive away. This never happened, however, but I had an indomitable dream. I had the patience that maybe one day I could drive my real car. I'm nineteen now and my passion for cars hasn't changed at all. I'm finally old enough to drive, but I still feel like I'm even younger; Stuck in the store in a hot wheel aisle trying to decide which car I should buy. I look at today's cars to notice that even though the essential elements of a car never change, essentially four wheels and some sort of engine to move, something is different about cars that are in the present than they were when I was a child. Today, the growing concern about global warming is influencing people's mindset. Cars emit more than 333 million tons of carbon dioxide per year. (Ginovieto) In the United States, and in other countries such as Europe, there is a shortage of fossil fuels that threatens the future of the automotive industry. Gas prices have hovered at all-time highs. The consumer automobile market is continually growing. Many countries are industrializing at a rapid pace, such as China, and the demand for automobiles and transportation has also increased. All these problems influence each other to add and combine into bigger problems. Pollution, overcrowding on the roads and rising petrol prices, are all phenomena prevalent in... middle of paper... industry can focus on environmentally friendly but unreasonably fast supercars like the hot wheels I've always dreamed of being in .Works Cited"Advantages of Turbochargers." Turbo Servis -. Np, nd Web. 08 December 2014. Williams, Stephan. “Toyota designs flowers to offset manufacturing pollution.” Wheels Toyota engineers flourish to compensate for production pollution comments. New York Times, November 3, 2009. Web. December 08, 2014. Sutcliffe, Steve. “Did Audi ruin Le Mans?” Car. Autocar, 21 June 2013. Web. 08 December 2014.Roos, Dave. “Does manufacturing hybrid cars waste the benefits of hybrid?”HowStuffWorks. Np, nd Web. 07 December 2014.Ginovieto. "Causes of Global Warming". : Cars and global warming. Global Warming Blogspot, March 6, 2009. Web. December 8, 2014.Zoellter, Juergen. "2014 Volkswagen XL1." Car and driver. Car and Driver, June 2013. Web. 08 December. 2014.