Nowadays, biofuels consider as an alternative of fossil fuels, offer a reasonably good option to satisfy the fuel and energy requirement over the world. In the world transportation fuel usage, biofuels now occupy 3 percent and is expected to grow to 6.5 percent by 2012 and to 8.5 percent by 2015. Moreover, its has not only contributed significantly to energy crisis follow by increasing of petroleum prices day by day and has recently touched the hundred dollars a barrel, but possibly might become a major source of income for country.
It is said that the increased use of biofuels leading to:
a) Diversify agricultural and forestry activities
b) Improve food security
c) Contribute to sustainable development and
d) Mitigate climate change by replacing fossil fuels that leading up to global warming which attributed to greenhouse gases.
In my opinion, it was be debatable of the advantages for solution of either global warming or environmental problems caused by the fossil fuels. For instance, during the biofuels production, changes in land use whereas forests are cleared to make approach for biofuel crops leading to a massive release in greenhouse gases. We have to always keeping in mind that biofuels was the fuel produced from recently dead organic matter or biomass, it’s mainly contributed to deforestation.
Despite that, constraints regard as shortage of food supply due to the growing crops for use in biofuel production. According to International Food Policy Research Institute, around 30% of recent food price inflation can be attributed to biofuel production.
We can conclude that biofuel can be one of the solutions to environmental or economical problems caused by fossil fuel and so on. However, reappearance of other environmental pollution might attribute to biofuel application in accordance with replacement of fossil fuel by today.
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