Do you believe that the food price hikes are linked to the increased production of ethanol?

Is ethanol the way to go? Are there not other alternatives? Motivate your answers.

I do not think Ethanol is the way to go. I do not at all think it is “the fuel of the future.” Ethanol is advertised as a clean burning fuel. This is very misleading as the production of ethanol is not clean. For the production of Ethanol natural gas based fertilizers, farm equipment, transformation from corn or other materials, and transportation are used. Ethanol also increases global warming, causes deforestation and leads to the increase of food prices. Yes when your car has ethanol in the fuel tank it produces minimal emissions. However the production of Ethanol and the future consequences of producing ethanol tells us that it is not a clean fuel. We must ask ourselves if producing ethanol is really worth it. Some researchers say that ethanol consumes more energy than it yields. We should be worrying more about the massive famine problem across the globe rather than producing a fuel that is causing more harm than good. Michael Grunwald said “that one person could be fed for 365 days on the corn needed to fill an ethanol-fueled SUV.” On that note one should really be asking if the production of Ethanol is really worth it? As an alternative to vehicles run on ethanol and gasoline, one should look at vehicles run on compressed air. Toyota have designed a car that runs on compressed air. To know if this is the way to go we must first see how much it costs to produce compressed air and how long the car can run for without refilling. Once we know these answers we can see if compressed air is the way to go.