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Your friend says that when someone drives a car, they use up energy. You know that this isn’t quite true. Develop an argument against your friend’s claim that uses scientific evidence. Be sure to include the vocabulary: energy transformation, Law of Conservation of Energy.

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You can say that the law of the conservation of energy states that energy cannot be created or destroyed only transferred. therefore the energy your friend said is used up is just simply transferred into other forms of energy
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Answer:

Only about 12%–30% of the energy from the fuel you put in a conventional vehicle is used to move it down the road, depending on the drive cycle.

Step-by-step explanation:

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