Posted on 04/18/2009 8:13:04 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Biofuel imports - a costly trade in bunkum
Carl Mortished: On the money
Forget electric cars, you won't be driving one for decades, perhaps you never will. What matters is the liquid that fills the tank in the Mondeo and that liquid is becoming more peculiar every year. You may think that your car's diesel engine is burning brown sludge pumped out of a North Sea well and processed in a stinking jungle of pipes and pots on some blighted estuary in the North of England. That is only part of the story: what goes into your tank may be a cocktail of fossil-based fuels from Russia or the Gulf laced with vegetable oils imported from as far afield as Brazil and Malaysia. Making road fuel and delivering it to your car is a business that is becoming more complicated, costly and wasteful every year.
Fleets of ships, belching emissions of sulphur and carbon, are moving ethanol and other biofuels to Britain to ensure that the petrol and diesel sold at filling stations complies with the low-carbon diktat. A nightmarish transglobal web of logistics and manufacturing is required to meet the increasing biofuel obligation. In Britain, road fuel is currently 2.7 per cent ethanol or biodiesel (sourced from grains, such as wheat, rape or soya as well as palm oil and animal fat). The Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation will increase that to 3.5 per cent next year and an EU directive requires that it rise to 10 per cent by 2020.
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What's becoming more hilarious by the day is watching all the schemes concocted by the warmies making them look like the fools they are. Ethanol is no solution. Burning french fry oil is no solution. Windmills are no solution. Solar panels are no solution.
It is really fortunate that the problem that their is no real solution for is no real problem in the first place.
Somebody’s making a fortune on this, and who can begrudge them that?
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