That, by 2040, the federal government should mandate that all new passenger vehicles and light truck

My opponents only arguement on oil production peak is that there is some oil that is not reported. That doesn't mean that there is a lot or a little. Also the country that made this survey was the US to the congress, so why would the Congressional budget office, who does studies on subjects to make policy change say that there will be an oil peak, if they secretly had oil saved. My opponents arguement just seems to be an conspiracy theory and does not hold in thsi round and he is only renforcing my arguement because we only have so much left that is correct and thus the oil peak in production will happen which not only is an economic concern for Americans, but also a security crisis as other countries can use it to bring about political change, case in point Russia with resources on Ukraine. Second my opponent brought up how alternative fuels are dangerous in how they are produced. How are car batteries that bad in fact read this article about . http://www.newsweek.com... Electric cars are not that dangerous to produce and besides producing oil is dangerous because of the fumes that is leads into the environment. So oil and alternative fuel dangers are simply a trade off. Con has not refuted the points, because the car companies have learned that there business practices were wrong, so now they need a new direction to go in and that is through alternative cars. The CAFE standards forced them to make cars have less CO2 emissions in the air and they have followed through. MPG may be not as high, but we still need to do so to stop production of vehicles that release CO2 in the first place. As I already stated we only have one planet, so we need to get to a point where the number one pollutor of CO2 is stopped in time from being on earth. Now onto why you should vote for the Pro 1. My opponents first point about alternative fuels produced being dangerous, but there are some fuels that are not dangerous as in electric cars and if they were so dangerous than why are there some of these vehicles being produced now, obviously they are worth the risk because of what I just said in contention 2 of my first round about the environmental impacts. 2. My opponents contention 2 states a lot about the long term, but that is exactly what the pro side calls for, we have the means and ingenuity to do so, so why don't we do it. The government is essentially preventing harms to it's own people and to the world. So you must vote pro, because that con arguement just doesn't fly because if the facts change, which they sometimes do, you can always change the mandate. As the facts state now though, we must take action on this probelm. 3. The government is doing this for the better meant of it's people and as far as failing, we haven't because all cars have to meet CAFE standards. If MPG's are down well, so be it, at least we have a vehicle that isn't polluting the earth or causing our citizens to pay an arm and leg and possibly cause some of the same economic probelms we are facing today with oil prices being so high and remember with oil peak in production means, when oil prices go up, they can't produce more to bring them down. Now to stretch across my arguments 1. Oil production is very important in this debate because it means exactly what I have said time and time again. We can not put our citizens throught the turmoil that they have already gone through with oil being 140 dollars a barrel for the simple fact that once oil goes up again we will not be able to ease there pains in an meaningful way. 2. Environmental struggles happen and with petrol cars being the number one polloter of CO2 which causes global warming, we need to tackle the number polluter by cutting him out eventually. Through voting for the pro side you will get that. 3. This argument which my opponent never argued against was the fact that the US has not been looked upon very well and by voting pro you will be helping to restore that pride that we use to have. The pride that we are doing something that is not only for the enhancement of our own people, but the enhancement of the world. Vote pro for the simple advancement of our society and to take responsibility and correct the wrongs that must be made right.