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Europe's Biodiesel Drive Sputters

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Biodiesel is having a tougher time to win acceptance as the costs of making it in Europe have gone up and its much costlier to make than regular diesel. And their are costs to the environment of making more biodiesel as it involves more use of land and water resources. Biodiesl costs $1440 per ton or $4.80 per gallon compared to $840 per ton or $2.80 per gallon for regular crude oil based diesel. This is because the prices of most of the crops used to make biodiesel have doubled and oil companies are finding that it is too expensive to buy compared to fossil fuel. Europe only uses 2 % of transportation fuels in the form of nonfossil fuels like biodiesel and the goals of getting to 10% of transportation fuels for nonfossil fuel is now more elusive than ever now that biodiesel is not taking off.

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