Quiz 3

Running cars on biofuels can be 'unethical'

According to G. Louise (2011), the use of biofuels could cause world hunger, slavery and climate change.

United Kingdom as well as the European countries declared than such biomasses will have an increase in its utilization in a near future, and about 10 per cent of them will be produce from sugar cane, corn or palm oil. 

However, a survey has demonstrated these countries than the use of biofuels can cause problems like: food production could be affected by the use of land to generate biofuels, which also would provoke not only slavery, but also human right abuses.  Additionally, regarding to the environmental problems, biofuels are seen as a solution to climate change, but in this context the utilization of energy to produce biofuels is exaggerated. 

Consequently, this study suggests the implementation of a certificated authorization to commercialize biofuels into the European countries to guarantee the right use of these biomasses.

Finally, a professor from the Cambridge University added that biofuels should be originated from biodegradable waste in order to avoid the use of land to food production.

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In my opinion, in spite of the good intention of the utilization of these biofuels to help with the reduction of carbon monoxide in the environment, biomasses use a huge quantity of energy to produce these kinds of fuels what becomes a problem more than a solution.  Therefore, we need to search on alternatives raw material to generate similar products, but those ones that may ensure us a positive impact in society. 

Then, nowadays the use of solar panels have been an important discovery along the world. They generate energy, which could be useful to run an electrical mean of transport, but neither high price has allowed us to acquire them easily nor electrical cars have been built up to here.

Finally, we need to seek dissimilar alternatives to generate electricity.  The government as well as private institutions would invest money to look for solutions and to deal with these kinds of matters.  Environmental problems are increasing day by day and we have to keep in mind that our children will be the protagonists of the future.