Early on in my bio oil career I was amazed to find how much dis-information there was in the public domain concerning bio fuels. Things like "you can use straight vegetable oil in a diesel car with no problems particularly if you mix it with regular diesel" and "you can't put bio diesel into new cars" Probably the worst stuff was and still is that bio fuels are not the answer. They are responsible for a whole catalogue of evil things such as pushing the price of food up, accelerating the cutting down of forests and gaining no advantage on emmissions over fossil fuel!
One presumes there are forces at work here to dis' the honest bio brigade.
The next thing that amused me was to learn last year that the UK missed the target set by the EU on supplying a % of all fuel sold as bio fuel. We were fined millions of euros for that. Didn't get a lot of coverage in the UK papers though did it? THe target is even tougher for 2010. Predictions are we will miss that one too.
And finally if people think HM Gov are turning really green these days why do think they increased the excise duty on bio fuels in December 2006 and will increase it again this year? It just doesn't make sense.
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