A educação ambiental como variável no uso dos combustíveis para veículos automotores e suas implicações sobre o meio ambiente

Abstract

The use of automachine vehicles has much time left of being considered a previlege or symbol of status, to become an utility and almost a characterization of the actual man. In its majority, the vehicles has engine combustion in most diverse conceptions and they use, also, different fuels. Differentiated process of combustion produces different compounds undesirable that, in different form, influence the environment. Of the relationship between automobiles, the necessities of the man and the environment must result a balance between desirable and acceptable one, as form to minimize the damages on the ecosystem. In this work the main influences of fuels and resisdual gases produced by the automobiles on nature and artificies used currently to minimize these harmful agents. After the study, lectures in the center of formation of conductores in Santa Maria, RS, had been become fullfilled, presenting this existing relationship between automachine vehicles, their fuels and ambient questions. During the process had been applied questionnaires, before and after of the lectures, with the purpose to evaluate the level of perception of the instructors and the candidates to driver how much to the ambient damages caused by emissions produced for the automachine vehicles. The result of the work is a systematizaton of data and information concerning the couple full-emission of pollutants, that can in general be used by instructors of center of formation of conductors and by the community as element of contribution for the awareness on the serious environment consequences happened of the bad use of fuels and engines.