New Zealand’s Prime Minister Helen Clark committed the government to use B10 blends or electric power for 80 percent of its fleet by 2015.
The national Biofuels Bill was introduced into Parliament last week, which will result in a 3.4 percent biofuel mandate target for 2012.
In August, a 10 percent ethanol blend went on sale in New Zealand, prompting strong public support from the Green Party while the Director of New Zealand’s Advanced Energy and Material Systems Lab called biofuels a “waste of time and money”.
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