Ethanol fuel, made from plants such as corn and sugar cane, has been advocated by some people as an alternative to gasoline in the United States. However, many critics argue that ethanol is not a good replacement for gasoline for several reasons.
First, the increased use of ethanol fuel would not help to solve one of the biggest environmental problems caused by gasoline use: global warming. Like gasoline, ethanol releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere when it is burned for fuel and carbon dioxide is greenhouse gas: it helps trap heat in the atmosphere. Thus, ethanol offers no environmental advantage over gasoline.
Second, the production of significant amounts of ethanol would dramatically reduce the amount of plants available for uses other than fuel. For example, much of the corn now grown in the United States is used to feed farm animals such as cows and chickens. It is estimated that if ethanol were used to satisfy just 10 percent of the fuel needs in the United States, more than 60 percent of the corn currently grown in the united stated would have to be used to produce ethanol. If most of the corn were used to produce ethanol, a substantial source of food for animals would disappear.
Third, ethanol fuel will never be able to compete with gasoline on price. Although the prices of ethanol and gasoline for the consumer are currently about the same, this is only because of the help in the form of tax subsidies given to ethanol producers by the United States government. These tax subsidies have cost the United States government over $11 billion in the past 30 years. If the United States government were to stop helping producers in this way, the price of ethanol would increase greatly.
The passage suggests that ethanol will not be a good source of energy to replace gasoline as an alternative source as it has different drawbacks: similar environmental pollution as gasoline consumption, reduce alternative use of the plant and not competitive in price with the gasoline. however, the lecturer says that ethanol can be an alternative source of energy and the reason taken in the passage is not convincing to prove it not useful than gasoline.
One of the problems is it liberates the same level of carbon dioxide on the consumption as gasoline does. The speaker concedes that it sure liberates carbon dioxide on the consumption but, during plant uses for the ethanol production are growing, it consumes carbon dioxide of the atmosphere. it facilitates both the process of consuming and liberating carbon dioxide. Then, how it is the same in the production of it with gasoline.
Another is the possible cause of its use that may reduce the amount of the plant uses in the alternative purpose: feed for the animal. The lecturer refutes the point by saying that the plant part which is used for the production for the ethanol is cellulose. As it is an undigested part of the plant, its use will not affect the other purpose of the plant.
Third point is that the ethanol is less competitive with gasoline in terms of the price. Furthermore, the current price of it as the same as the price of the gasoline-only due to a huge subsidy from the government for its production. The lecturer agrees with the subsidy case however he does not agree with the claim that it will not be the future energy source. he added that if the production of the ethanol increases by three times, its cost of the product will be dropped by the 40 percent of the current event.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: proving
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, however, if, may, so, then, third
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1464.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 309.0 270.72406181 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.73786407767 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1926597562 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70310046589 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.430420711974 0.540411800872 80% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 483.3 419.366225166 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.8340737094 49.2860985944 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.615384615 110.228320801 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7692307692 21.698381199 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.92307692308 7.06452816374 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.222211179982 0.272083759551 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0827035410772 0.0996497079465 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0622091090759 0.0662205650399 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135099606882 0.162205337803 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0471690777075 0.0443174109184 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.3589403974 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.51 12.2367328918 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.59 8.42419426049 90% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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