Biodiesel Seen Its Best Days?

By: GARKO

These are troublesome days for environmentalists promoting biodiesel energy sources.

Global grain stocks are at all-time lows and prices are higher than they have ever been. That means high incentives to clear new land to plant crops – in precious rainforest regions in South America and Southeast Asia that sustain indigenous peoples and which hold reserves of immense quanitities of carbon. These regions are also populated of biodiversity. Sacrificing them for automobile fuel is a horrible act.
Any shill wants to contest that such efforts amount to "economic development in the Third World" will have to explain a stark fact: transnational agribusiness interests, primarily Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland, siphon off the bulk of profits for Brazilian soy and Asian palm. Their environmental and social record is dismal.
With these facts in mind it is even more monumentally depressing to observe the current status and trend of the U.S. biodiesel industry.
Biodistillers nationwide now are becoming aware that their industry's survival depends on the unpredictability of world trade. That is to say, less costly soy and palm oil from foreign countries increasingly replace domestically grown soy oil. Environmentally conscious Europe takes most of the U.S.-produced fuel.
So here is how it works. To maintain production of this "homegrown renewable fuel," we've resorted to procuring the feedstock from environmentally vulnerable zones and sending the fuel to Europe. To make matters worse, the U.S. taxpayer is footing the bill the whole thing: biodiesel producers get a $1 excise tax credit on each gallon of bio fuel that is produced with regular diesel -- even when it gets sold to foreign countries.
Evidently, the numbers around use of biodiesel for American car owners have collapsed, even with consideration to the $1/gallon subsidy:
It takes 7.7 pounds of soy oil to produce a single gallon of biodiesel -- or $4.34 --. Add overhead and other processing costs (roughly 70 cents per gallon), taxes to state and federal (54 cents), and then from that total subtract the dollar tax credit, and a gallon of biodiesel could cost the consumder $4.58 at the pump. Regular diesel sold for $3.86 a gallon Wednesday.
So how does it become more profitable for these producers of biodiesel to sell their stuff on the European market? Might ask another question for the answer to that one… qui bono? (who benefits) from the incredible shrinking dollar? . Adjusted for the abysmal dollar/euro exchange rate, U.S. producers are suddenly competitive with their European rivals.
As long as the dollar stays dead in the gutter, pushed down by the enturbulance on Wall Street and voracious oil use (unmitigated by biofuel), U.S.-made biodiesel, feedstock sourced from the environmentally sensitive regions to the South, will continue to flow to Europe.
The question becomes this: where is this leading us, environmentally?

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