The country where you can fuel your car at the pump with leftover French fry oil: "90% fewer emissions"
What do French fries and a fuel station have in common? At first glance, not much. But starting from May 30, drivers passing through Germany can fill up with a new type of fuel.
It comes from used cooking oils and is more environmentally friendly. A gas station in Lower Saxony is among the first to offer the new type of eco-friendly diesel fuel, called "HVO" - an abbreviation for "hydrotreated vegetable oils".
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Lorenz Kiene, CEO of Classic Tankstellen: "Every particle of carbon dioxide in the air counts, and that’s why we should use fuels that are already available for the energy mix of the future".
To produce this fuel, used cooking oils or fat residues are processed into liquid fuel using hydrogen and energy.
A liter costs approximately 2.5 lei more than traditional diesel. A car can be fueled with the new eco-friendly fuel if the tank cap is labeled "XTL".
Micha Gebhardt, ADAC: "The advantage of HVO100 fuel is clearly the reduction of CO2 emissions. Up to 90% fewer CO2 emissions in every old diesel model approved for it is a leverage you otherwise wouldn't have to drive in a more climate-neutral way".
Environmentalists are skeptical.
Lasse van Aken, a Greenpeace activist: "I don't think biofuel is a good solution because, in one form or another, we are burning food residues in a tank".
However, it will take some time before the new type of fuel becomes widely available.
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