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"A rule change proposed by European fuels and cars industries to allow new
combustion engines running on biofuels to be sold after its 2035 deadline for
zero-emission cars could result in an unsustainable spike in demand for
biofuels from waste feedstocks like animal fats and used cooking oil.
According to the European Federation for Transport and Environment (T&E),
Europe’s leading advocates for clean transport & energy, a car running on
animal fats would, for example, require the equivalent of 120 pigs a year.
This would see cars, planes, and ships consume anywhere between two- to
nine-times more advanced biofuels than can be sustainably sourced in 2050.
The findings come from a new report published by T&E late last week entitled
Biofuels in cars: A dead end for Europe, which analysed the effect of
allowing the so-called “biofuels loophole” in the EU 2035 cars law, which bans
the sale of new petro land diesel cars in the European Union from 2035.
Implementing the loophole is supported not only by European fuels and cars
industries, but also the Italian government.
But to include such a loophole would immediately consume the already limited
supplies of sustainable advanced biofuels which are currently required for
hard-to-decarbonise sectors like aviation.
Based on current European targets, planes and ships alone will already require
approximately double the amount of advanced biofuels that can be sustainable
sourced in Europe in 2050 under what T&E describes as “the most optimistic
scenario”."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
