What will happen to the world when it runs out of oil for gasoline? Researchers have been working to find an alternative source. Their main priority is ethanol. They are constantly trying to figure out if it will work, how much it is used right now, and if it will ever carry out the same jobs that gasoline can do. Ethanol will not be a viable gas alternative. Corn cannot be made fast enough to sustain the same level of usage as gasoline the production of ethanol is very expensive, and it creates more air pollution than the burning of oil. Corn prices are on the rise which would make the price of ethanol higher. There have been a large amount of ethanol plants closing due to the raising of corn prices. The bigger companies are not
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An experiment was done by a group of ethanol scientists to see the effects ethanol had on air pollution. It was concluded that the more that ethanol was used, the more ozone was measured. This means that it was making air pollution even worse than it is now. According to ethanol scientist, Neela Banerjee, when gas vehicles rose from 14% to 76%, ambient ozone concentrations fell about 20%. Ethanol is made with nitric oxide, a chemical that is a huge contributor to creating smog and acid rain. Ethanol critics have said, “Ethanol is as bad or even worse than oil.” It is not just the burning of ethanol that causes air pollution; it is also the way it is made. Fossil fuels are burned in order to make the ethanol. Also, the amount of land that is used to cultivate the corn would make ethanol use “ineffective” for trying to lower greenhouse gases. Seeing these results, even the green lobby turned against the fuel because of all the cases of carbon-increasing deforestation that it has caused. Ethanol authors were even surprised to see that the ozone concentrations were becoming worse as ethanol use increased. It may seem like ethanol is a more “green” alternative to burning oil and other fossil fuels, but it causes just as much harm and sometimes even more than those other
An experiment was done by a group of ethanol scientists to see the effects ethanol had on air pollution. It was concluded that the more that ethanol was used, the more ozone was measured. This means that it was making air pollution even worse than it is now. According to ethanol scientist, Neela Banerjee, when gas vehicles rose from 14% to 76%, ambient ozone concentrations fell about 20%. Ethanol is made with nitric oxide, a chemical that is a huge contributor to creating smog and acid rain. Ethanol critics have said, “Ethanol is as bad or even worse than oil.” It is not just the burning of ethanol that causes air pollution; it is also the way it is made. Fossil fuels are burned in order to make the ethanol. Also, the amount of land that is used to cultivate the corn would make ethanol use “ineffective” for trying to lower greenhouse gases. Seeing these results, even the green lobby turned against the fuel because of all the cases of carbon-increasing deforestation that it has caused. Ethanol authors were even surprised to see that the ozone concentrations were becoming worse as ethanol use increased. It may seem like ethanol is a more “green” alternative to burning oil and other fossil fuels, but it causes just as much harm and sometimes even more than those other