Ron Oxburgh, chairman of D1 Oils in the UK, discusses the change in attitudes to biofuels. He says the way forward for biofuel production is to decouple them from the production of food crops. Jatropha curcas is a tree with fruits which produce good diesel oil. It yields fully after 5 years, produces for 50 years and is cleaner than diesel produced from fossil fuel.
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