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Biofuels: ‘Irrational’ and ‘even Worse than Fossil Fuels’
Biofuels: ‘Irrational’ and ‘even worse than fossil fuels’
The UK’s “irrational” use of biofuels will cost vehicle drivers around ₤ 460 million over the next 12 months, a think tank says.
A report by Chatham House, external says the growing dependence on sustainable liquid fuels will likewise increase food costs.
The author states that biodiesel made from grease was worse for the climate than nonrenewable fuel sources.
Under EU law, external, biofuels are set to comprise 5% of the UK’s transportation fuel from today.
Since 2008, the UK has needed fuel providers to include a growing proportion of sustainable products into the fuel and diesel they supply. These biofuels are generally ethanol distilled from corn and biodiesel made from rapeseed, used cooking oil and tallow.
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But research carried out for Chatham House states that reaching the 5% level suggests that UK motorists will have to pay an extra ₤ 460m a year because of the greater cost of fuel at the pump and from filling up more frequently as biofuels have a lower energy content.
The report state that if the UK is to satisfy its commitments to EU energy targets the cost to motorists is most likely to increase to ₤ 1.3 bn per annum by 2020.
“It is tough to find any great news,” Rob Bailey, senior research fellow at Chatham House, told BBC News.
“Biofuels increase expenses and they are an extremely costly way to minimize carbon emissions,” he stated.
The EU biofuel requireds are also having extremely distorting effects in the market. Because used cooking oil is considered as among the most sustainable types of biodiesel, the price for it has actually increased rapidly. Rob Bailey states that towards completion of 2012 it was more pricey than refined palm oil.
“It develops a monetary incentive to purchase refined palm oil, cook a chip in it to turn it into utilized cooking oil and after that offer it at revenue,”
“It is insane but the rewards are there.”
There are likewise stresses that taking EU land out of production to grow rapeseed oil in specific is creating more environment problems than it fixes. The more fuel of this type that is taken into cars and trucks the larger the deficit produced in the edible oils market. This had caused increased imports of palm oil from Indonesia, often produced on deforested land.
“Once you consider these indirect impacts, biofuels made from veggie oils really result worldwide in more emissions than you would receive from utilizing diesel in the very first place,” said Rob Bailey.
“Plus you are asking motorists to pay more for the fuel – it makes no sense, it is an entirely irrational strategy.”
Biofuel advantages
The European Biodiesel Board (EBB), which represents the industry, external across the EU, said it knew the problems triggered by the required. But it believes that biofuels have many positives.
“Blaming biofuels for all the troubles in the world is a bit too exaggerated,” said Isabelle Maurizi, task manager at the EBB.
“It has actually brought lots of benefits. It has actually enhanced the security of our diesel; it has actually lowered EU dependency on animal feed imports, thanks to the rapeseed we grow for biodiesel.”
“If there was no biodiesel farmers would just make their land idle – no food, no feed!”
As the UK strikes the 5% of liquid fuels mark, the government faces some challenging decisions on how to progress on this issue as it deals with tripling the costs for motorists by 2020.
Insiders recommend its choice would be to try and get contract in Brussels on the impacts of indirect costs which might constrain what counts as biofuel. However getting contract from countries with effective farming sectors who gain from the current plan will be tough.
“When you have a lobby which includes the farming sector and the oil sector it is very difficult for Governments to make a U-turn,” said Rob Bailey.
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