Junk food is well known for containing a lot of palm oil. If you’re concerned about deforestation from palm oil (a huge issue for our atmosphere as well as biodiversity), you have probably seen the campaigns urging people to not buy certain brands and urging producers of such food to use something other than palm oil. I don’t recall seeing any campaigns regarding palm oil and diesel, or even big awareness-raising campaigns about the link. Until now.
Transport & Environment (T&E) has release a report that shows that EU drivers burn more palm oil in their diesel fuel in a year than is put in all of the Oreo cookies in the world each year.
This comes in part because palm oil use in “biodiesel” jumped 7% in the EU last year as regulations pushed industry to “clean up” diesel pollution. A record 4.5 million tonnes of palm oil were put into biodiesel in the EU.
That’s not to say junk food is good for anyone, but in this case if the environment is a priority, diesel needs to receive attention because it’s a major polluter on this planet.
See EU Diesel Drivers Burn 100× More Palm Oil Than All Oreo Cookies In World
Transport & Environment (T&E) has release a report that shows that EU drivers burn more palm oil in their diesel fuel in a year than is put in all of the Oreo cookies in the world each year.