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As gas prices continue to surge higher and higher and concern over our country?s reliance on foreign oil grows more serious by the day, many experts are pointing to ethanol as a quick and easy solution to the current energy crisis. This article takes a look at Ethanol as the new source of gas and the opportunities it presents.

Recently, oil has reached a high of $79 and some experts are predicting that it will go to $100 by end of this year – 2006. Since 2004, oil has been on a relentless journey in upward trend sending fear and panic to investors. In 1973 and 1979, oil crisis sent the oil prices sky high and a global recession followed. With the current Middle East problems, the fear of another oil price spiking up is not unexpected. To reduce dependency on Foreign oil, ethanol is one the solutions for Alternative Energy.

The article looks at the failure of corn ethanol to become a petroleum substitute. Low energy yields of corn ethanol have resulted in huge demands for grains. A combination of high world market prices for petroleum and US subsidies for ethanol has spawned a worldwide food crisis. Instead of ethanol and corn, we must find biomass with exceptionally high energy content and must develop new techniques to grow high energy biomass in arid areas.

In this chapter we shall discuss the importance of recent developments in agriculture upon the world’s energy resources and the impact on the world population and environment. We shall focus mainly on agriculture producing fuel as this is currently controversial. We will briefly discus the historic link between agriculture and petroleum then we will explore aspects of methane, biodiesel and ethanol production before a brief summary on the strategic importance of a strong agricultural sector.