Internal EU report casts doubts on its biofuel strategy
Date: Friday, January 18, 2008 @ 15:11:54 UTC
Topic: Testimonials
 The hood of a car running with Bio-Ethanol is seen at the Geneva Motor Show, 2007. The European Commission has criticised EU proposals to boost the use of biofuels in transport, concluding that their costs outweigh the benefits.
The unpublished working paper by the Joint
Research Centre, the European Commission's in-house scientific body,
makes uncomfortable reading for the EU's executive body ahead of a
meeting Wednesday where it is to detail a plan for biofuels to make up
10 percent of all transport fuels in the EU by 2020.
The cost-benefit study looks at whether using
biofuels reduces greenhouse gas emissions, improves security of supply
and creates jobs and delivers an unenthusiastic opinion on all three
counts.
"What the cost-benefit analysis shows is that there are better ways
to achieve greenhouse gas savings and security of supply enhancements
than to produce biofuels," says the report.
"The costs of EU biofuels outweigh the benefits," the researchers state.
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