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 a 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 States 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 the producers in this way, the price of ethanol would increase greatly.
The reading and the lecture are both about the value of using ethanol as a fuel instead of gasoline. The author of the passage believes that it had better use of gasoline rather than ethanol. In contrast to that, the lecturer casts doubts on the claims made in the article. She thinks that taking challenge still the most controversial stuff in this contemporary world like considering ethanol, a suitable replacement for gasoline.
First of all, the author points out that burning ethanol will likely cause the greenhouse effect. It is mentioned that would be a reason to be producing carbon dioxide considering as a fuel. The lecturer challenges this point. He says due to burn of corn and sugar cane; the plants will absorb the carbon dioxide gas, which as a consequence, will not be the reason for the increasing effect of greenhouse gas.
Secondly, the author contends that becoming a reason for extinction due to the increase in the production of significant amounts of ethanol. The article notes that corn and sugar cane are also a vital food for cattle and other animals, which could get affected by because of its extensive use for instance of prediction, at least sixty percent of the current corn production will be used to extract fuel. The lecturer refutes this argument. He comes out with a statement that there is another resource to produce ethanol rather than the plant. So the production of meat and a substantial source of food for animals would not disappear.
Finally, the text compares the cost of Ethanol and gasoline. The price of ethanol fuel will be reduced as more people are going to use it. Professor agrees with this statement by showing a statistic report which stated that if the production rate of current ethanol increases by three times the production will reduce the price by forty percent. Whereas, the text says if the Government decision on subsidization of tax on ethanol production is gone the amount of ethanol will rise.
To wrap it up, we can conclude that the lecture dismisses the points made in the text and establishes ethanol as a good alternative over gasoline.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, if, second, secondly, so, still, whereas, while, at least, for instance, in contrast, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 30.3222958057 175% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 5.01324503311 319% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1783.0 1373.03311258 130% => OK
No of words: 357.0 270.72406181 132% => OK
Chars per words: 4.9943977591 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34677393335 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75213386601 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 145.348785872 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52380952381 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 557.1 419.366225166 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.9127970687 49.2860985944 122% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.882352941 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 21.698381199 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.35294117647 7.06452816374 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 15.0 4.19205298013 358% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.233383012369 0.272083759551 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0720967802329 0.0996497079465 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0352682750073 0.0662205650399 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12797861837 0.162205337803 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0211537518097 0.0443174109184 48% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 63.6247240618 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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