Paper 3
Fossil fuels empower the world that we live in. Everything from cars, heating for homes, and electricity use fossil fuels. However, fossil fuels are not a renewable source, and the crisis that we face as human beings is that it is running out. An alternative to fossil fuels is hydrogen fuel. The replacement of fossil fuels with hydrogen fuels has been debated for a long time. Some people believe that hydrogen fuel has great potential to replace fossil fuel, while others believe that it is something that may not be achievable at this time. Jeremy Rifkin, a social activist, wrote an article entitled, "Hydrogen: Empowering the People". He believes that hydrogen fuel indeed has great potential and can also benefit society greatly. On the other hand, author Michael Behar believes that hydrogen fuel is actually barred by great financial, political, and technological obstacles in his article, "Warning: The Hydrogen Economy May Be More Distant That it Appears". Both authors use different rhetoric styles to carry out their arguments. In this paper, I will attempt to analyze the rhetoric styles used by both these authors to support their arguments, and show how their arguments may be either strengthened or weakened by their styles.
The first point of view supports the use of hydrogen fuel. Social activist Jeremy Rifkin argues that fossil fuels present a problem because they are not replaceable and that hydrogen fuels could not only replace the different usages for fossil fuels, and also help shape the economy and society as a hole. He believes in hydrogen providing the possibility of "making energy available in every community of the world" (pg. 111) since it exists all over t ...