A problem-related to the competition for land use is
whether crops should be used to produce food or fuel.
(1) ______ areas will be examined in this respect. (1) ______
Firstly, the problem should be viewed in its (2) ______ (2) ______
perspective. When oil prices rose sharply in the 1970s,
countries had to look for alternatives to solve the resulting crisis.
In developing countries, one of the possible answers
to it is to produce alcohol from (3) ______ material. (3) ______
This has led to a lot of research in this area particularly in
the use of (4) ______.The use of this material resulted (4) ______
from two economic reasons: a (5) ______ in its price (5) ______
and low (6) ______ costs. (6) ______
There are other starchy plants that can be used to produce
alcohol, like the sweet (7) ______ or the cassava plant (7) ______
in tropical regions, and (8) ______ and sugar beet in (8) ______
non-tropical regions. The problem with these plants is
that they are also the people’s staple food in many poor countries.
Therefore, farmers them are faced with a choice: crops
for food or for fuel. And farmers naturally go for what is
more (9) ______. As a result, the problems involved are (9) ______
economic in nature, rather than technological. 7his is my
second area under consideration.
Finally, there have already been practical applications
of using alcohol for fuel. Basically, they. come in two forms
of use: pure alcohol as is the case in (10) ______, and a (10) ______
combination of alcohol and gasoline known as gasohol in Germany.