After the Oil Crisis: Biofuel Manufacturers Ask that the Increase in Cutting with Biodiesel Be Sustained

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August 25, 2022

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(Clarin (Google translation)) On August 16, the deadline for the additional cut of 5 percent ended, but the Ministry of Energy could extend it. — There are no technical restrictions for the increase in the cut, and there is even sufficient history of massive use of pure biodiesel, they say.

After the expiration on August 16 of DNU 330/22, which was launched by the Government in the midst of a diesel shortage crisis and imposed an additional temporary cut of 5 percent of diesel with biodiesel, the Argentine Chamber of Biofuels (Carbio) requested the “permanent continuation” of the measure.

“The measure showed the benefits and feasibility of replacing imported diesel,” they assured from the entity.

Together with DNU 330/22, resolution 438/2022 of the Energy Secretariat had been published, which permanently raises the biodiesel cut from 5% established in law 27,640 to 7.5 percent. In this way, adding the transitory 5 percent, the cut had remained at 12.5 percent. The DNU empowers the enforcement authority to extend the measure for the duration of the exceptional situation that gave rise to it, with the aim of ensuring the supply of the domestic market.

As highlighted by Carbio, there are multiple international experiences that show the technical capacity of biodiesel to replace diesel in transportation, “in addition to its contribution to improving public health and the environment.”

Claudio Molina, executive director of the Argentine Association of Biofuels and Hydrogen, explains that the origin of the problem of shortage of diesel in Argentina is in the new biofuels law, which last year enabled the reduction of the cut of diesel with biodiesel from 10 at 5%. READ MORE

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