{"id":595960,"date":"2025-11-26T23:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/595960\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T23:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:11:12","slug":"120-pigs-per-car-oil-lobbys-eu-biofuels-loophole-could-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/595960\/","title":{"rendered":"120 pigs per car: oil lobby\u2019s EU biofuels loophole could see\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Inserting a biofuels loophole in the EU 2035 cars law could see a huge spike in demand for biofuels from waste feedstocks like animal fats, used cooking oil and palm oil by-products, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transportenvironment.org\/articles\/biofuels-in-cars-a-dead-end-for-europe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new T&amp;E analysis<\/a> finds. A car running on animal fats, for example, would require the equivalent of 120 pigs a year. This additional demand could lead to cars, planes and ships consuming two to nine times more advanced biofuels than can be sustainably sourced in the future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inserting a biofuels loophole in the EU 2035 cars law could see a huge spike in demand for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[150610,27868,1306,1311,2000,299,5187,59681,107866,1398,187339,187338,15822],"class_list":{"0":"post-595960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-150610","9":"tag-advanced","10":"tag-aviation","11":"tag-biofuels","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-industries","16":"tag-require","17":"tag-shipping","18":"tag-sourced","19":"tag-sustainably","20":"tag-times"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115618531569587242","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}