Why We Need to Invest on Ethanol Fuel Now
1. One of the most dependable renewable fuels is ethanol fuel. Renewable fuel is one you can produce again and again. In the case of crude oil, it is not so because it is a resource that may get exhausted if you continuously use it without discretion; but you get ethanol every time you produce crops suitable for manufacturing it.
2. Your concerns about pollution and greenhouse gas emissions are addressed if you use ethanol. Because of the increased oxygen content in ethanol, it is burnt completely when you use it on vehicles so it doesn’t add to the threat of global warming. 46% reduction in greenhouse emission is assured. 10% of ethanol in your gas tank reduces greenhouse gas emission by 19%.
3. You need not worry about water pollution if ethanol is used. It has the peculiar chemical quality of separating when mixed with water. A biodegradable material, ethanol then hardly pollutes ground water sources.
4. The cost of producing ethanol is much less when compared to that of gasoline. Vehicles must be converted into flex fuel types so that you can save millions of gallons of gasoline, which doesn’t cost as much as it seems at first.
5. Current vehicle types can use ethanol; present infrastructures for distributing gasoline can also be maximized for distributing ethanol; and finally, present automobile technologies are also suitable to ethanol fuel. Blending of ethanol and gasoline can be done for use in vehicles of all types, hybrid vehicles not excluded.
6. Farmers who produce crops locally benefit greatly from ethanol use. The country’s coffers and not that of giant wealthy companies, especially multinationals, get filled up if you use ethanol fuel.
7. Importation costs due to the huge crude oil imports can be kept under check if you shift to ethanol fuel. The country will slowly ease its dependence on oil-exporting countries.
8. Corn and sugar cane are used at present for producing ethanol but research is continuously being carried out to expand the base ingredient for ethanol to almost anything. Unusable crop waste that is being considered has yielded positive results. Once the findings are thoroughly checked and there is more and more production of ethanol, it is going to change the equations between nations in a big way.
