SUSTAINABILITY PROBLEMS MAY RESTRICT BIOFUEL TRANSPORT USE IN EUROPE
March 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT almost seems like yesterday when European policymakers were hailing biofuels as the practical green alternative to fossil fuels, so clean - cars, vans and trucks might as well have been running on water. However, with the growing and widespread acceptance that producing many biofuels (and burning them of course) produces substantial carbon emissions, those days are well and truly over. Meanwhile, mathematical calculations being pored over by officials in the European Union's (EU) executive, the European Commission, could further cloud the ...
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