Allegedly “green” biodiesel being shipped into Europe from Communist China is likely fake, various climate organizations have claimed.
A number of organizations concerned with the manufacturing and distribution of green biodiesel have reportedly now suspect that a lot of the fuel being shipped into Europe from China is fake. [emphasis, links added]
Due to various EU legal requirements and climate subsidies, China’s biodiesel industry is now reportedly booming, with manufacturers in the East being able to ship large quantities of the manufactured combustible into Europe for a sizable profit.
However, according to a report by Bloomberg, organizations involved in certifying such fuels, as well as protecting biodiesel enterprises operating within the EU, now believe that a significant amount of the Chinese fuel entering the continent is fake.
While the fuel is ostensibly supposed to be made using food waste in order to minimize environmental impact, experts now believe that some of the fuel entering Europe is made in part or entirely out of crops specially grown for the purpose of being turned into diesel.
This is due to the fact that more “green” fuel is being made in the communist nation than thought to be physically possible, with many experts being of the belief that there is simply not enough food waste available to Chinese companies for them to be able to produce the sheer volume of supposedly climate-friendly biodiesel they are exporting.
Companies in China are also thought to be cutting products sent West with cheaper ingredients, something that also vastly changes the environmental impact of the fuels burnt.
To make matters worse, the diluting or substituting of materials within the biodiesel is said to be near undetectable once the finished product is made, with one expert saying that with “an already refined product that’s been chemically transformed into biodiesel, it’s hardly possible to know” what ingredients were actually used.
The possibility that green fuels entering the EU are actually not as they advertised raises serious questions regarding the bloc’s green policies.
Brussels has implemented various targets and recommendations forcing corporations and countries within the union to adopt the use of green fuels, with some amount of supposedly green alternative fuel being required for use in air travel from 2025, with it to make up 70 percent of what’s filling planes by 2050.
How effective such measures will actually be are highly questionable now that it appears that lots of green fuels sloshing around the continent are not green at all.
Apart from the bloc’s climate targets, the fake fuels are also reportedly damaging local biodiesel producers on the continent, with Chinese companies being able to undercut EU competitors while availing of climate subsidies.
This has ultimately resulted in many EU producers being put to pasture, unable to compete with the supply of dodgy diesel being pumped into Europe.
“The threat is really existential for certain companies,” European Biodiesel Board Secretary-General Xavier Noyon remarked regarding the issue.
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Every thing concerned with AGW is fake, this story is par for the course.
Looks like the EU made regulations that hurt Euro producers while China hauls in the premium on renewable diesel. When will Europeans say “ENOUGH!”
When will the EU say “ENOUGH”? My guess is the day after never.
The solution to fake green biodiesel is obvious. Eliminate the requirements that mandate its use.
I once knew a guy who would go around to restaurants and collect the used cooking oil. He ran his small pickup exclusively on that fuel. I don’t know what he does now because I have lost contact with him.
Biden is being totally irresponsible about what is a totally fake crisis its more to do with Globalism and a Global Government under the UN