A quick calculation shows that it bio-fuels produces about 2.5x the CO2 of just burning gasoline. Where do you think the plants and harvesters come from and how are they built and powered? Natural gas is the best fossil fuel, lowest CO2 produced, and it basically needs no refining. In the context bio-fuels means corn ethanol.
A new report from the Royal Institute of International Affairs has found that biofuels are pretty much a disaster. Author Rob Bailey declares that they are not sustainable, they are hugely expensive, they are not a cost-efficient way of reducing emissions, and that the EU is going to insist that production is ramped up anyway.
Since the biofuels mandate comes from the EU Commission (which was subverted by the farm lobby), it is, of course, impossible for national governments to do much about this appalling situation. Roger Harrabin tweets that governments will not want to do anything about biofuels anyway because they fear that if they do business will not support future government initiatives.
One wants to weep at the corruption of it all.
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