Georgian government announced this week that they are planning to replace its entire fleet of state-owned cars with eco-friendly hybrid or electric cars within 4 years. Many believe that out of all the bold plans which Georgian government had proposed in recent years, such as plans to convert the entire city as free WIFI zone and replace all Russian-language college books in to English, this plan is the most equitable and probable. Georgia is the first nation in the world to make this commitment.According to the Ministry of the Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia, Georgia is one of the most adequate and appropriate nation to be able to achieve entire fleet of eco-friendly cars today. This is because Georgia has rich supply of cheap hydroelectric power from dams in the Caucasus Mountains. Moreover the Ministry also stated that Georgia is also capable of acting as a global laboratory for the use of electric cars in the future due to their rich hydroelectric power supplies. This global laboratory will allow and encourage world to convert the fleets of cars within their country to eco-friendly cars by enhancing technology, etc.
Georgian government is planning to purchase over 4000 vehicles shortly from various car companies such as General Motors. In addition, Georgian government announced that converting trucks, larger cars and presidential motorcades to eco-friendly vehicles will be exempted for now since the electric power technology today is still inefficient for large vehicles. Anyhow, Georgia is getting lots of positive interests and encouragements from various automakers, countries, and so on. The world will be watching Georgia once again to see if they will be able to make changes and set the bars high for other nations to follow.
From my point of view, I am fully supportive towards Georgian government's comm
itment towards eco-friendly vehicle conversion plan. In my opinion, environmental and economical issues associated with oil usages are one of the most problematic subjects in the world. For example, the hazardous side-effects of oil usage such as contaminating our environments and the scarcity of oil which will lead our economy to face oil crisis in near future. Therefore it was thrilling to see a nation step up to the line and announce that they will convert entire fleet of vehicles within their country in to eco-friendly cars. Moreover, the fact that Georgia has rich supplies of hydroelectric power supplies also make this plan very promising. If Georgia is able to accomplish and achieve entire fleet of eco-friendly cars, they will be bringing new vision and solution to the world regarding to the problematic oil usage. I believe that the conversion of fleet of vehicles to eco-friendly cars is one of the most influential and significant changes we could make in order to prevent oil crisis, reduce oil dependency and ultimately to be eco-friendly in order to protect our environment. There is a proverb "Well begun is half done". This proverb suggests that beginning and start is one of the most important steps towards completion and accomplishment; because without beginning, you won't be able to finish anything. Georgia, small country with only about 4.5 million people might not be able to show immediate and significant changes regarding to all of the problematic issues that i have stated above. However, they will be able to promote the idea of "entire nation with fleet of eco-friendly cars" all across the world. Therefore Georgia will influence other nations to initiate the conversion of their vehicles to eco-friendly cars. Now, it is up to us, the rest of citizens in the world, to step up and make changes in order to protect our mother nature for greener and clearer environment for us and for future generations.
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