Bio Fuels

Bio Fuels

Corn based Biofuels

With global warming, not only is the United States of America in a hurry to find biofuel solutions, but also Europe and other global countries have jumped into the fray of finding a way to reduce emissions, and save our planet. With more and more people waking up to the idea that our planet cannot last forever with the way we are treating it at the moment, more of our people are looking for solutions. One of the solutions that have been suggested, is E85 a biofuel.

The United States government is backing E85, ethanol-based biofuel, and along with that backing, there is an increased demand for biofuel, but also with population increasing an increase in food supply demands. E85 is a corn-based biofuel, and the United States government has subsidized farmers in order to increase the production of corn for biofuel. While we increase the production for biofuel, were actually decreasing the production for food products.

Within developing countries, there are 820 million people that do not have enough food, resulting in hunger and starvation. With the increased production and demand of ethanol and biofuels, it results in an increased need for corn, and at the same time decreases the amount of food corn crops grown. The result is an increase across the board in food prices. Corn is used in a variety of food products, as an additive, as a base, and of course as maize and flour. And with most of the corn grown being subsidized by the government for ethanol, a lack of corn in the world food market is affecting everyone.

There are a variety of different ways to produce biofuels, not only can you use waste chocolate, peanut oil, Brazilian sugarcane, and other types of crops, with this research there seems to be no need to increase the world food demand by taking good farmland and producing just corn for fuel.

While corn crops are now subsidized for fuel production, the realization of the world food crisis is demanding new research into different products to produce clean fuel. There is no doubt that global warming affects everyone, but so does a world corn shortage, and it won't be long until something is done. Supply and demand is a large part of how the United States and even globally products are designed and made. It takes time to develop new technologies and new products, but jumping onto the corn bandwagon and pushing out other food crops, is not exactly a globally sound decision.

There's no doubt E85 and biofuels are a necessity in the world today. If we have intentions of having a world for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren to inhabit, we must find solutions to global warming and emissions. Biofuels are one answer, but it needs to be looked at on a global scale before moving all of our cropland into corn-based biofuel crops instead of food crops.

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