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I think biofuel is good for the environment, obviously it pollutes the world a bit but for the situation of the world, biofuel is much better than fossil fuel.

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It is made of natural things so it doesn’t use chemicals although it can be made of wood so it could lead to deforestation.

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It is fuel made of nature but if we make to much we destroy our world so it is an advanced thing but it can be bad

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I don't really know whether biofuel is good or not, though I think Its good. It should be a renewable source since it is made of plants. If its not then I think we should be quite worried. I think biofuel is basically fossil fuels just made yesterday. Even though using biofuel does release greenhouse gasses, it releases a lot less than fossil fuels. I think biofuels should be used a bit more often
(though not to often because I want solar power to replace fossil fuels). :D

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I wonder its new kind of energy and very good for nature

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biofuel are the liquid fuels obtained from bio mass (like pou or plant matter)ETANOLO is a gas produced by sugar and starches and it is used for vehicles.
biodisel is obtained by mixing alcohol with ,animal fat,vegetable oil , or recycled cooking oil and solid biofuels for example wood and domestic refuse.
it is good because it is renewable,clean,can be mixed wiyh other fuels,and for engines (better than ETANOLO biodisel)
ignorance because not many people know about it,more land will be required to be coltivated for biofuel production.so from this i think that biofuel is good because it is clean.

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I think that bio fuel could replace some other kinds of fuel like Edoardo  said diesel. I think that using it could also stop drilling because we can use bio fuel instead. One of the problems is that we do deforestation to plant  other crops to get bio fuel.
Studies have shown that some bio fuels are more polluting that the fossil fuels they replace.So we must be careful.The EU has taken action by establishing rules that prohibit producing and importing by other countries unsustainable bio fuel.

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I think biofuel was a great invention/discovry because it could replace diesel for cars.🍟🍟🚘🚗
Could we die drinking bio fuel?!?🤔🤔🤔

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I think: it is good to recycle, but it's better not to eat chips so then the oil won't be burned inside the cars

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I think the biofuel is a good type of energy, i wonder if biofuel will everv finish.

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Biofuel could be an interesting form of clean energy but it requires a lot of energy to be produced and areas necessary for agriculture and animals.

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It is good because when people make it they always stay shore that there aren't explosive traces or bad things.
But the bad parts are that if you touch it it can burn you very badly and you can lose an arm and it pollutes everywhere.

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I am not sure that biofuel is always good. I think that because maybe if we use to much of it, the natural food is going to be wasted, so we won’t have enough vitamins,so we can die.

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EU nations are being encouraged to set up certification schemes to ensure biofuels help cut emissions and do not threaten biodiversity.

The plans, outlined by the European Commission, would apply to all types of biofuels, including imported fuel.

The commission said the schemes would deliver substantial CO2 reductions and help protect forests and wetlands.

Environmental groups said the voluntary measures were too weak to halt a "dramatic increase in deforestation".

Announcing the measures, EU Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger said: "In the years to come, biofuels are the main alternative to petrol and diesel used in transport, which produces more than 20% of the greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union.

"We have to ensure that the biofuels used are also sustainable," he added.

Mr Oettinger said the scheme was the "most stringent in the world" and would ensure that biofuels used in the EU would "meet the highest environmental standards".

He suggested that, as the plans also covered imports, it would help protect natural habitats in other parts of the world that were at risk from the expanding global demand for biofuels.

In recent years, biofuels - once seen as a green saviour of transport - have fallen out of favour with environmental groups and policy makers.

For example, studies have shown that some biofuels are more polluting that the fossil fuels they replace.

Another major concern is that the growing demand for fossils fuels has led to arable land being planted with more profitable biofuel crops, rather than food crops.

Studies have also raised fears that biofuel plantations could be using plants that are capable of becoming established in the surrounding habitat, harming fragile ecosystems.

The commission hopes that the new criteria will help allay these concerns.

Growing concerns

The package announced by the commissioner in Brussels on Thursday contained three measures:

- governments, industry and NGOs are encouraged to establish "voluntary schemes". In order for the schemes to be recognised by the European Commision, they must be independently audited.

- the fuels must not be made from raw materials from tropical forests or recently deforested areas, drained peatlands, wetlands. For example, the commission said the conversion of a forest to a palm oil plantation would not meet its sustainability criteria.

- biofuels have to deliver savings of at least 35% compared with fossil fuels, rising to 50% in 2017 and to 60% by 2018.

Under the EU Renewable Energy Directive, which was established in 2009, the 27-nation bloc was set the target of ensuring that 20% of its energy consumption came from renewable sources by 2020.

The directive also required nations to ensure that renewables accounted for 10% of the energy used in the transport sector.

In a statement, the commission said that only biofuels that met the new sustainability criteria would count towards the 2020 target.

However, environmental groups said the measures did not go far enough to ensure the alternative fuels did not harm the environment.

"Dirty biofuels exacerbate climate change and lead to destruction of rainforests," said Sebastien Risso, Greenpeace EU's forest policy officer.

"Under the current scheme, Europeans wanting to cut their carbon footprint could actually make the problem worse by using biofuels," he added.

"The worst biofuels are actually more polluting than petrol and there is a very real risk that Europe's cars will run on forest destruction and animal extinction."

The environmental campaign group said the commission's criteria failed to address the impact of indirect land-use change, for example, when agricultural land is set aside to grow biofuels, there is pressure to cut down forests in order to grow food.

However, researchers developing new ways to produce biofuels say that advances in technology mean that the non-food crops grown on marginal or non-arable land can be used to meet the growing demand.

James Nicholson MEP, agriculture spokesman for the European Conservatives and Reformists group, broadly welcomed the commission's plans.

"The current crop of biofuels have their limitations and the commission is right to finally develop criteria to stop the damage that they can do, if produced unsustainably," he said.

However, he added, future generations of biofuels offered "almost limitless possibilities".

"They have the potential to increase our energy supply without harming the environment or taking land away from food production.

"This is the way forward and the commission should be putting far more emphasis on the research, development and promotion of these technologies."

Figures from the European Commission shows that in 2007, approximately 26% of biodiesel and 31% of bioethanol used in the EU was imported. Most of the imports, it adds, came from Brazil and the US.

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EU nations are being encouraged to set up certification schemes to ensure biofuels help cut emissions and do not threaten biodiversity. The plans, outlined by the European Commission, would apply to all types of biofuels, including imported fuel. The commission said the schemes would deliver substantial CO2 reductions and help protect forests and wetlands.

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Here's a short introduction to biofuels.

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Here's a short introduction to biofuels.

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Fun Kids - the UK's children's radio station

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Can cars run on used chip oil?

Incredibly it is possible to run a car using fat that's been used for cooking chips. Although it's a little bit more complicated than it sounds.

It's all to do with vegetable oil. You see, when chips are cooked in places like your local Fish and Chip shop, there's lots of left over cooking oil.

Now, a little while ago some clever people worked out that cars designed to use diesel fuel could be powered by this vegetable oil - although with a few important tweaks!

To start with, you don't just pour chip oil into the fuel tank. You firstly have to heat the oil up to steam off any water that might be in it. Some chemicals are then added and the oil is then left to separate out into layers.

It then needs to be filtered before it can be used to remove impurities and any old chips that may still be in there! This is definitely a job for the grown-ups and even they need to be very careful. Once all of that's done, the fuel can then be used in your car.

This kind of fuel is known as a biofuel because it comes from living matter - that's the crops that were used to make the vegetable oil in the first place. Many people think that biofuels like these are good for the environment because it's basically recycling oil that would otherwise just be thrown away.

Remember though, hot oil can give you nasty burns so stay safe and leave this sort of thing to your parents!

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Kids' Guide to Biofuel Chip Fat Cars - Fun Kids - the UK's children's radio station

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Can cars run on used chip oil? Incredibly it is possible to run a car using fat that's been used for cooking chips. Although it's a little bit more complicated than it sounds. It's all to do with vegetable oil.