Issues Topic

My topic for the issues paper is on transportation and whether or not it has a good impact on us as a global society. Mainly I will focus on cars as our main source of transportation but I might use alternates forms of transportation. We use cars all the time but we don’t really know how much that affects us. American cars were once manufactured mostly in America but nowadays that may not be the case. For instance, the chips and computers we find in our cars today were probably made in Asia somewhere and the car was probably pieced together in Mexico. Because cars are manufactured basically everywhere how does that affect our economy? When we stopped manufacturing cars here as much, where did those jobs go to as we outsourced to other countries for cheaper parts and cheaper labor? However, since we have outsourced to different areas of the world, has that helped us become more globalized? I would agree that the manufacturing of cars does make us more global. You can now find American made cars outside of the U.S. just like you can find imported cars here. Another issue is pretty well known and that is energy. Where do we get our energy to use our cars? What about alternate sources of energy?  There are lots of aspects that we don’t always consider when it comes to our transportation needs. Transportation has allowed us to become more connected than ever before by allowing us to reach across the global. Today we are able to get to the other side of the world in a single day. But what made all that possible and how does that affect us?