Biodiesel fuel blend for Taiwan cars
Government wants to cut oil imports, increase farmers' yield and reduce CO2 outputTaiwan has started selling biodiesel fuel on a trial basis as part of attempts to reduce oil imports and carbon dioxide emissions.
Gas stations in two counties, Taoyuan and Chiayi, began selling petroleum diesel mixed with 1 per cent of biodiesel fuel over the weekend, the Economic Ministry said on its web site.
The blended diesel will be sold all over the island by next year. By 2010, the mix of the biodiesel fuel will be increased to 2 per cent, resulting in the consumption of an estimated 100,000 kilolitres (26 million gallons) of biodiesel fuel in total a year, it said.
The trial sale this year is aimed at encouraging farmers to grow more soybeans, sunflowers and rape plants that can produce the alternative fuel.
The government has made the production of biodegradable fuel one of its core policies to help cut oil imports, increase farmers' yield and reduce the output of carbon dioxide to help with the battle against global warming, the ministry said.
Source: AAP 2007
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