I just finished reading an article titled "Ground Broken for Ethanol Plant" by The Associated Press mainly telling about the construction of a new ethanol plant to help with the surging gas prices. Just this week the construction for the United States sixth ethanol plant has begun to find opportunities to the always increasing prices of gasoline that are at nearly $110 per barrel. "I truly believe that the way Prowers County thinks about renewable energy is not just the future of the state but so much the future of the country," said Liquidmaze one of the small and few companies that manages small-scale ethanol. The plant will cost roughly twenty-four million dollars and will be Liquidmaize's first plant in the state of Colorado.
What Matters: I think what matters from this piece of writing is the simple fact that we can not rely on gas forever. It is eventually going to run out and what is the United States going to do then? It is great that we are coming up with solutions but I believe that we need to step up the anty and produce more effort to find a good solution for fossil fuels. Ethanol is great, but we only have six plants in the entire United States compared to gasoline plants six is absolutely pathetic.
How This Affects Me: Running out of gas not only affects me, but the entire rest of the population as well. When we run out, we run out. There is nothing we can do to produce more fossil fuels when it is all gone. We need to step up to the plate and deliver more support to ethanol providing company's. Maybe we could start a bunch of ethanol providing company's all over the U.S. and/or require car company's to sell so many ethanol running cars. I know running out of gas is not our main concern but why wait? What do we have to lose by begging to use them now? If anything, it will help to start using them now, we can see what flaws there are in using them.
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