Planes Not Cars “Should Have Biofuel”

A think tank called Policy Exchange has recommended that the European Union should not pursue biofuels as an option for cars but instead demand that airplanes use it. They say that a crop area the size of the USA would be needed to biofuel all the world’s cars and alternatives such as electricity should be considered instead. The BBC reports:

Policy Exchange claims using biofuels is the only way in the foreseeable future to meet people’s desire to travel without escalating emissions of greenhouse gases.

Airlines should be mandated to blend biofuel with kerosene in increasing quantities from 2020, it believes.
By this time new generation crop-based fuels should have been developed which do not compete with food crops.

Green groups have been critical of the destruction of rainforest to create the fuels and the resultant loss of habitat for rare species.

They also say that with more farmland being turned over to grow profitable biofuels, food production has fallen and pushed up global prices, affecting supplies for the poorest people.

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