philippines biodiesel

The Biofuel Act kicked in in the Philippines today, and gas stations around the country started pumping B1 into diesel cars at midnight (local time), according to AHN. The law requires all oil firms to blend coco-methyl ester (CME) into diesel products to at one percent of the total. In two years, ...

Last year Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo released an Energy Independence Agenda for her country that called for sixty percent energy self-sufficiency by 2010. Now the president has signed a bill into law that makes part of that plan mandatory. The Republic Act 9367 mandates five ...