Researchers Working On An Earth Friendly Fuel

Imagine being able to fill up your car gas tank with a fuel that had no carbon in it and thereby posed no threat to the enviornment. Well this guilt free driving experience may be coming in the future. Researchers at Arizona State University are attempting to grow an Algae that they would be able to turn into a biofuel that would work just as well as gasoline in your cars gas tank only without the harmful global warming exhaust coming out of the back. Algae consume carbon dioxide when they grow so the stuff would not have any in it to spit out into the enviornment when it is burned in your cars combustion engine. The added benefit is that it will not cut into the supply of food for people to eat like the biofuels that are used now such as sugarcane and corn because algae cannot be eaten, it is not a food source. The reason the price of food has been skyrocketing in the last few years is due in large part to the fact that nearly 1/3 rd of the crops that farmers have been growing in this country has been going to make biofuels. This has lowered the amount of food available to buy for consumers and as a result the price for many foods has shot up because the demand for food has remained the same and the supply shrunk. If this works and it can indeed be pulled off it will be a win/win for the earth and the people living on it.