Once again the BioDiesel Scam artists are up and about and getting right up our nose.Here is a piece from the Energy Business Review, detailing Scania's decision to join forces with Finnish oil firm Neste to trial a new low-emission bio-based synthetic diesel fuel, NExBTL, which is being produced by Neste in a facility in southern Finland.The piece quotes Hasse Johansson, group vice president of R&D at Scania, who says:"Scania's laboratory tests corroborate that bio-based synthetic diesel has great potential. Simply switching to such fuel from standard diesel can significantly improve emissions. The possibility of mixing it freely with standard diesel makes the fuel interesting for old vehicles and engines as well. "There is no reason to wait 'a few more years' for better alternatives. With the renewable fuels and the technologies available today we are off to a head start, making a significant contribution in reducing carbon dioxide emissions." So, we develop a fuel that costs more energy to produce than it actually offers as a finished product, and then we celebrate? Copper-bottomed twaddle. The ERoEI - Energy Returned over Energy Invested - figure for BioDiesel is laughable: it takes around three barrels of oil to make one of BioDiesel. Manufacturing BioDiesel costs more oil than it saves, and yet here is Hasse Johnasson - a man who we have always respected if not actually understood - suggesting that it is good for the environment. Bullshit.The big picture is very simple. We are fast running out of oil. Period. BioDiesel is a scam, and, more worryingly, one that leads to complacency. We may not be able to drill for oil anymore, but at least we can grow it. Nonsense. If we turn our food into oil, what do we eat? Opportunity cost or what.And just to add insult to injury, we now find ourselves agreeing with, of all people, Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. This (is) the unkindest cut of all.
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