A Ford Taurus driven 12,000 miles a year will use about 650 gallons of gasoline compared to a Ford Explorer that would use 850 gallons. About 19.7 lbm of CO2, which causes global warming, is released to the atmosphere when a gallon of gasoline is burned. Determine the extra amount of CO2 production a man is responsible for during a 5-year period if he trades his Taurus for an Explorer.
American Federal Government Week 10 Lecture (April 5), materials and lab *Data project assignment due April 22nd, prepare to work on this during lab* Interest Groups- an organization of people. goal: influencing public policy. methods: independent activism from membership, can be “pressure groups” or “advocacy groups,” seek to represent interests of particular issue or group of people majoritarian pluralism- type of interest group that seeks to represent the general public’s interests equally. biased pluralism- represents interest groups that tend to advocate interests of businesses and corporations over the general public. Iron triangle - relationship between interest groups, congressional committees and bureaucracies that facilitates working together for interests
