The end of petroleum world resources will allow the development of renewable energies.

(Evolution of oil's price since 2000)

The petroleum consumption has increased by 160% since 1965. Specialists are saying that the petroleum end is standing out to the horizon because the world resources of the black gold are running out.

However the demand of energy around the worl is going to increase by 60% from now to 2030; the major reason being the economic growth of China, India and Brazil. Since 15 years, China is responsible by itself by 30% of the increase of the petroleum world demand (industry development). The principal market actor, OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) cannot manage the market anymore.

Currently, the transportation sector is absorbing 58% of the petroleum world consumption (42% in 1970’s).So it is topical to develop alternatives urgently and multiply the economy of energies. The countries have to adapt those policies for this problem.

Nowadays, it is existent in several ways to substitute the black gold. The biocarburant could allow a vocational retraining of farmers in the current context where the European PAC (Politique Agricole Commune) and the american protectionism offers less and less of selling price guarantees. Furthermore, biocarburant does not affect the greenhouse effect responsible of the global warming.

The hydraulic, wind, solar energy, biocarburant, biomass…etc, could be used in different sectors like electricity, heating and transportation.

Some countries have started to work on innovative projects. For example Germany, which has the biggest center for solar energy in the world (area of 30 soccer fields) was created in 2004. Australia plans to build a tower for solar energy of 1.000 meters high supplying the same quantity of energy than a small nuclear reactor. Sweden is one of the industrialized countries which will consume more renewable energies than petroleum soon. The oil demand does not stop to go down in Sweden and hydraulic, solar, wind and biomass energies are progressing.

Since 30 years, Brazil is exploiting its farms resources to produce Ethanol from sugar estates. The Ethyl-alcohol is produced from cultures of cereals/sugars with a high concentration of Amidon. Ethanol is the result of the sugar fermentation.

Thus, Ethanol cars are less pollutant as UNICA (Brazilian sugar syndicate) says; Ethanol is representing 40% of the carburant of the country which is distilling more than 4 milliards gallons a year being able to increase the production. Brazil is the leader in this market.

These efforts to develop renewable energies must continue throughout the world to face the inevitable end of the petroleum world resources, but also to fight against dependence of oil, oil price and pollution (global warming).

In Guyana the sugar has a future; the price cut applied by the European Unionj is not a fatality. As an enterprise, which is managing its diversification strategy, the sugar industry must reflect about new market opportunities. to be short, the sugar is not close to dying, on contrary it has the possibility to improve its yearly results.

Jonathan Fredericks