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Target of introducing Biofuels

In the Kyoto Protocol Target Achievement Plan of April 2005, the government specified the use of 500,000kl of biofuels for transportation use

Target in 2010


Biomass fuels for thermal use  3,080,000kl/year(Crude oil equivalent)  Biofuels for transportation use  500,000kl/year(Crude oil equivalent)


Japanese oil industry solely achieves 210,000kl/year out of the above 500,000kl/year Bio-ETBE is blended to gasoline  [Crude oil equivalent]210,000kl  [Ethanol equivalent]360,000kl +lso-butene [ETBE]840,000kl Blended to gasoline