{"id":13975,"date":"2005-05-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-10T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20050511-05n"},"modified":"2005-05-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-10T22:00:00","slug":"asian-palm-oil-for-euro-biodiesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/asian-palm-oil-for-euro-biodiesel\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Palm Oil for Euro Biodiesel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><img SRC=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news-images\/20050511-05\/palmoil_fediol.gif\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right:10px;\" BORDER=\"0\" ALT=\"Grafik\"\/> <\/b><b>Asian palm oil could supply up to 20% of the European Union\u2019s biodiesel needs by 2010, Pascal Cogels, the head of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fediol.be\/\" >Fediol<\/a>, the EU\u2019s vegetable oils federation, told Reuters.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The reason is price: palm oil is one of the least expensive vegetable oils. The winners in that scenario would be Malaysia, which produces 45% of the world\u2019s palm oil and Indonesia (39%).<\/p>\n<p>The EU currently imports about 3.5 million tonnes of refined and crude palm oil every year, chiefly from those two countries. A 20% share of biodiesel would mean between some 300,000 and 350,000 tonnes of additional palm oil imports, according to Fediol.<\/p>\n<p>Rapeseed oil now makes up between 80%\u201385% of the EU biodiesel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b> <\/b><b>Asian palm oil could supply up to 20% of the European Union&rsquo;s biodiesel needs by 2010, Pascal Cogels, the head of Fediol, the EU&rsquo;s<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-13975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13975"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=13975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}