The chemical compound, ethanol, has risen in recent years as the most viable alternative to fossil fuels. Ethanol is a renewable fuel made from crops, mainly from corn in the United States, which can power engines. There are many who argue that corn ethanol should replace fossil fuel gas as the primary source for running cars.
One major benefit of using corn ethanol is that it uses less energy than gasoline. Using less energy means that people can get better gas mileage while driving these more fuel-efficient cars. In the long-run, this will be cheaper for consumers because they can drive further than they do now with fossil-fueled cars. People will spend less money on gas because they won’t have to stop to fill up as frequently.
Another advantage of switching to corn ethanol is that it helps the American economy become less reliant on energy sources from other countries. Petroleum is not readily available in the U.S., so it must be imported from other countries. Depending on foreign relations with those countries, fuel becomes a political issue. Corn is a crop that America has in abundance. By using corn ethanol instead, the cost of gas will decrease because now the import taxes on fossil fuels are calculated into the price. This also means that we will be putting the money into our own economy, thus helping local corn farmers.
One of the most attractive aspects of corn ethanol is how environmentally friendly is when compared to current automobile gasoline. Fossil fuels release carbon that has been stored for years from the earth. Burning biofuels, like corn ethanol, is better for the environment because it releases less greenhouse gas emissions. Lessening the amount of carbon emissions will help prevent global warming and all of the other negative effects of climate change.
Although both the article and the lecture explains the potential effects of using ethanol as a replacement for fossil gas, they have contradicting views regarding the same. While the article is highly about the replacement of ethanol and corroborates its claim using three seemingly convincing facts, the speaker refutes each of these suggestions.
To start with, the article states that since ethanol is a less energy consuming source than gasoline, it is deemed to support individuals through better has mileage, create fuel efficient cars and turn out to be pocket -friendly in the long run. The speaker diminshes this claim on the premise that corn being expensive to produce due to an extensive process of production, transportation and distribution, shall be highly costly. Resultantly, the cost of ethanol shall be exorbitant for the consumers, as against the claims of the author.
Secondly, the passage presents the idea of corn helping the American economy to be self-dependent - thanks to reduced imports of petroleum from foreign countries, thus ameliorating geo-political conditions pertaining to America. Additionally, import taxes shall be reduced, making cost of gas chepaer. To this, the lecturer argues that price of corn may rise owing to substantially higher demands. It shall affect feed for cows and in turn hamper dairy production. This woud not only make the gas prices to shoot up, but also hurt the economy in the long run.
Lastly, the passage explains how shifting to ethanol would be environment friendly as combustion of the same shall release much lesser biofuels, leading to lesser carbon emissions and potential prevention of global warming. The professor, although, finds this claim to be flawed as, according to him, the repercussion effects shall make the demand for corn to rise. As a result, more farmland would be needed to produce the crop, leading to absorption and release of higher amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. In due course of time, the ozone layer is likely to get destroyed.
The author and the speaker, although shares diametrically opposite views on ethanol replacing fossil fuel gas, sparks an enriching deabte on this issue.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, lastly, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, thus, while, as a result, to start with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 12.0772626932 25% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 30.3222958057 171% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1849.0 1373.03311258 135% => OK
No of words: 349.0 270.72406181 129% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29799426934 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32221490584 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85369649288 2.5805825403 111% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 145.348785872 141% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.587392550143 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 556.2 419.366225166 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 1.25165562914 399% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.9687272013 49.2860985944 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.266666667 110.228320801 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2666666667 21.698381199 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.66666666667 7.06452816374 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.147215212421 0.272083759551 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0467963162292 0.0996497079465 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0371467627282 0.0662205650399 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0867821070262 0.162205337803 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0262247851956 0.0443174109184 59% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.3589403974 114% => 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: 13.76 12.2367328918 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.62 8.42419426049 114% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 63.6247240618 168% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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