Ethanol more Deadly than Gasoline?
Will Ethanol actually create more pollution than gasoline? According to research by one scientist yes, it will. So my question to the readers is why sink more money into ethanol if it is just as bad for the atmosphere as gasoline? I say if ethanol is just as bad as gasoline why sink more money into ethanol research. I say consider what we have already sunk into ethanol a sunk cost and invest more money into improving gas mileage and emissions in cars. I beleive our health is more important than saving a dollar or two at the pump every time you fill up. At least to me implicit costs such as my health are more important than an explicit cost of one or two dollars. Although at the end of this article it states that ethanol does reduce green house gases, I think if money that is used for ethanol research is shifted to cleaner gasoline research green house gases from gasoline could also be reduced to numbers that resemble that of ethanol.
5 comments:
I think that my health is more important than green house gas, either way it effects our health. Regular gas without ethanol is still effect the green house gases.
I think the key question is that gasoline is a kind of non-renewable resources, while ethanol is considered renewable. Also, just because ethanol may create more pollution than gasoline, we need to do research to reduce its pollution.
I agree with Yangdi. The greater concern is the lack of petroleum resources. This is why we have gas prices that are sky rocketing. We need to find some type of product that will burn cleaner than ethanol and be more sufficient then gasoline.
The market of providing funds for researches is efficient in my opinion. Therefore, the amount of money used in ethanol disposal or gasoline disposal is decided by the intersection of demand curve and supply curve in this market. In other words, the levels of importance of ethanol research and gasoline research are always different in everyone’s mind. It is hard to tell who is perfectly right. For the balance, the market prefers to split the difference. That is why sink more money into ethanol. It is not decided by an individual or even the government. It lies on the situation of the whole market.
I think that ethanol research is good. Eventually, scientists will discover how to make ethanol just as clean if not cleaner than gasoline. The reason this will benefit us is because we can renew ethanol, something we cannot do with petroleum. Without the funding for ethanol research, we will never be able to reach this point.
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