A truck leaves Nippon Oil Corp.'s Negishi refinery in Yokohama on Thursday morning carrying the first biogasoline. Biogasoline is made by mixing gasoline with ethyl tertiary butyl ether, a synthesis of bioethanol and petroleum gas. The new fuel will be sold at 50 gasoline stations in Tokyo and adjacent prefectures from Friday, with a nationwide rollout to be completed by 2010. Bioethanol, which makes up about 3 percent of the blend, causes no rise in CO2 emissions.

Daily Yomiuri Online (Apr.27,2007)
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070427dy02.htm



Bioethanol expect to reduce CO2. On the other hand, to be demand of it bigger, it causes some problems. The prices for material products like corn and sugar cane rise. Moreover other products’ farmers change their products to material products. So the production reduces and it causes recent rises of orange, mayonnaise, and so on.



To compromise of is important I think..