New York City’s requirement that all heating oil used here contain 2 percent biodiesel fuel is a generous handout to the biofuels industry — and a terrible deal for the environment and everyday New Yorkers. Yet now, the City Council wants to jack up the percentage — to 5 percent by year’s end, and to a whopping 20 percent by 2030. And it’s all being driven by a wrongheaded notion that biodiesel is an environmentally friendly fuel. Fact is, the environmental movements in the United States and Europe are both nearly unanimous in their condemnations, noting time and again that biofuels — fuels derived from food products — encourage environmentally...
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