China Financial Daily

Japan’s large-scale popularization of bio-fuel
This paper, Tokyo, Japan’s largest oil companies – Nippon Oil Company officially began on the 1st to the metropolitan area in the region as the center of large-scale bio-fuel sales. This is also the Japanese bio-fuel to the first real popularity. For almost 100% dependence on imported energy, oil-consuming nation of Japan, the move of great significance.

It has been learned, including Tokyo, Kanagawa, Yamanashi, Nagano and so on are a total of about 6 counties of more than 2,000 stations, 861 stations have started to join the ranks of sales of bio-fuel, accounting for about gas stations in the region 40% of the total.

At present, sales of bio-fuel standards for gasoline in accordance with the proportion of more than 1% in a mixture of sugar cane and other plants as raw materials to produce bio-ethanol, as a result of the Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry and oil Union of biological fuel and regular gasoline for the difference between the part of bio-fuel market and regular gasoline prices the same as regular gasoline can be directly added to the tank car.

French gas stations will provide a new bio-fuel
Xinhua in Paris on March 30th (Xinhua Li Xuemei) French Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development announced on 30th, since April 1 this year, the gas station saround France would start to provide a new bio-fuel 95-E10, which types of fuel contained 10% ethanol, and the use of the fuel would be beneficial to environmental protection. According to introduction of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, this initiative was put by French President Nicolas Sarkozy in October last year when attending the Motor Show in Paris, and France hope that by the year of 2010, the account of bio-fuels for petrol filling stations to provide will increase the ratio of total to 7 %.