With the demand for fossil fuels growing through out the world, there is with out a doubt a lack of supply for this demand. The United States is the world’s highest consumer of fossil fuels because of the amount of Automobiles that we have on the roads every day. This is not one of the statistics that a country should be proud of being at the top of. Since the United States is the leader of the consumption of these fossil fuels, the government is making an effort to look for alternative fuels that we can use and substitute these new types of fuel in place of oil and gasoline to preserve our fossil fuels and make them last longer. One of the fuels that they are looking into is ethanol or CH3CH2OH which is the chemical make up of ethanol.
Ethanol is a clear colorless liquid that at low levels has a sweet taste, but at levels needed for fuel use it has a burning taste. Since 1990, when the government decided that gasoline burned had unsafe levels of carbon monoxide, ethanol has been......
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