Biofuels

On land, on water and in the air: Biofuels can be used to drive engines in cars, trucks, ships or even airplanes. Different biofuels are available such as biodiesel, vegetable oil, bioethanol, biogas and in future synthetic biofuels too (so-called BtL - biomass-to-liquid-fuel). Biofuels reduce CO2 emissions in traffic. Biofuels can replace part of global oil petroleum consumption. In Germany they currently (2011) cover 5.4 percent of fuel requirements. In 2011 biofuels avoided 4.8 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions. Biofuels are mainly produced with domestic biomass in Germany: Biodiesel comes from the rape field and not from the rainforest.