Plants: The Next Petroleum?
In the present, with rising oil prices and growing ecological. biofuels are more important and will be main fuels of automobiles. Biofuels are made from plants and vegetable oils and other things that grow in nature. It made biofuels are renewable source of energy. They don’t contribute as much to global warming. Biofuel is limited only by growth rates of plants and the availability of farmland. Biodiesel and ethanol are two types of biofuels. Biodiesel is a fuel that is made from materials such as vegetable oils, animal fats, and waste matter. So, They can produce more than billion liters of biodiesel fuel in a year. Biodiesel is good possibility to replace fossil fuels as the world’s energy source for vehicles. Biodiesel can be used in car engines, and it can be transported and sold using existing infrastructures. Ethanol is made from starchy grains. It can be used by itself or added to gasoline. It produces less energy per liter than gasoline but the cost of ethanol is as little as half the cost of gasoline. In Brazil, the fuel can be found at every station from downtown. Although, growing plants for fuel production don’t appropriate that have less food in poor countries.