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 text and the lecture offer two opposing views about the ethanol. While the text specifies some certain views about the use of ethanol, the professor counters those specific points and support his views with the opposing points.
Firstly, professors view on burning ethanol will not cause the greenhouse effect as ethanol is produced from corn and sugar cane. Corn and sugar cane which is actually planted products, use carbon dioxide as one of the substance to produce their food. So, ethanol offers no environmental disadvantage over gasoline.
Secondly, the text states that the production of significant amounts of ethanol would dramatically reduce the supply of corn to farm animals which is actually used to feed them. To support the demand for fuel, at least sixty percent of the current corn production will be used to extract fuel, leaving less food for farm animals. But the professor disagrees with this statements as it the part of the corn is used to produce ethanol is not the part which is actually used to feed the farm animals. 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 states if the Government decision on subsidization of tax on ethanol production is gone the price of ethanol will rise.
In conclusion, the lecture dismisses the points made in the text and proposes ethanol as a good alternative to gasoline.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, firstly, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 22.412803532 40% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1152.0 1373.03311258 84% => OK
No of words: 230.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.00869565217 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89432290496 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57375146379 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 126.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.547826086957 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 359.1 419.366225166 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.23620309051 49% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.4650991506 49.2860985944 141% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.2 110.228320801 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.5 7.06452816374 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.175966305258 0.272083759551 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0809238742895 0.0996497079465 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0396241611595 0.0662205650399 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111306810539 0.162205337803 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0479950555244 0.0443174109184 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.69 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 63.6247240618 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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