{"id":210,"date":"2007-07-06T09:28:35","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T09:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/eu-trade-commissioner-against-biofuel-tariff\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:56:00","slug":"eu-trade-commissioner-against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/eu-trade-commissioner-against\/","title":{"rendered":"EU trade commissioner against biofuel tariff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union trade commissioner, Peter Mandelson, yesterday said he opposes tariffs on biofuels aimed at protecting European domestic markets, a position that will boost big non-EU players like Brazil.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Biofuel policy is not ultimately an industrial policy or an agricultural policy &#8211; it is an environmental policy, driven above all by the greenest outcomes,&#8221; Mandelson said. &#8220;Europe should be open to accepting that we will import a large part of our biofuel resources. We should certainly not contemplate favoring EU production of biofuels with a weak carbon performance if we can import cheaper, cleaner biofuels.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The EU target is that 10 per cent of vehicles will be running on biofuel by 2020.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union trade commissioner, Peter Mandelson, yesterday said he opposes tariffs on biofuels aimed at protecting European domestic markets, a position that will boost big non-EU players like Brazil. &#8220;Biofuel policy is not ultimately an industrial policy or an agricultural policy &#8211; it is an environmental policy, driven above all by the greenest outcomes,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fuels","category-green-politics","category-miscellaneous"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10085,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/10085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}