Ethanol Instead of Petroleum?

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The world has relied mostly on petroleum for everything. For example, petroleum is used in transportation, technology, food and even in medical equipment. However, the question is for how long people will rely on petroleum? Although petroleum simplifies our lives, it brings lots of downsides for the environment, for people`s health and for the economy.

People have come to think about alternative fuels that can be used instead of petroleum, such as biofuels. The latter has recently been adopted in Brazil in order to reduce the amount of petroleum that is used in transportation, electricity and technology. However, Brazil has recognized that the biofuels have had negative impact on our health and on our environment.  Thus, they have switched to using another kind of fuel, ethanol.

Brazil nowadays is heavily relying on ethanol as an alternative fuel that is used in transportation and in electricity. People in Brazil think that ethanol is much healthier and less damaging to  the environment since it reduces air pollution and that improves people`s  health. In addition, it improves the country`s industries. Therefore, people in Brazil use ethanol for several different purposes regardless of its impact on the environment (Hira, Oliveira, 2009). From now on, it is recommended that we reduce petroleum use and find other kinds of fuels. In other words, we should reduce the materials that contain petroleum, such as plastics and some kinds of makeup, and reduce using electricity. In addition to that, we should focus on how we consume little of petroleum on transportation by limiting the transportation means use , as well as how we can reduce the amount of petroleum that we use in our electricity and technology by using them as we need  them as possible. However, people should switch to using natural kinds of materials that do not contain any kind of petroleum in order to protect their health.

Reference:

Hira. A., &Oliveira. L.G. (2009). No Substitute for Oil? How Brazil developed its ethanol

Industry, 37(6).http://www.sciencedirect.com.proxy.lib.pdx.edu.http://www.sciencedirect.com.proxy.lib.pdx.edu/