Hawaii Ethanol Fuel Information

Ethanol has been a very popular commodity, for one, it is being used as a mix in gasoline to fuel various machines. Now, ethanol has been faced with a question, will it help fuel food shortage? Right now, recent studies report that Ethanol production doubled in the past three years and soon ethanol double again probably in the next three years. Another point of view will be in the side where most corn are being used to feed live stocks and not to humans. A percentage of 80 were gathered reporting that that amount of corn was provided to feed the animals in the United States of America. Most corn produced now, which are also being used in the production of ethanol are industrialized at which only a small percentage will be supplied to individuals, while a different batch of corn crops are being produced mainly for human consumption. In this, ethanol cannot cause a food shortage.

While the production of ethanol has been exponentially growing alongside with the usage of fossil fuel, so does the exponential growth of consumption of corn crops within the next few years. While the consumption of the corn crops increase exponentially, the total arable land consumption will also increase, thus bringing with it the deprivation of land consumption for the production of the other food crops. While the production of corn crops and the other food commodities entails the usage of fuel, the cycle now again begins from the consumption of ethanol. Not to mention that the 80% usage of corn only applies to the United States, not in some other countries whose staple food highly depends on corn. Definitely, if the production of ethanol exponentially increases, there will be a shortage of food but not yet.