Can increased use of biofuels also be important to reducing our ever-greater dependence on oil from the Middle East?
Reducing our unilateral dependence on oil from a small number of net-exporting oil countries is one of the main reasons why, with the aid of legislation and various benefits, both the USA and the EU are trying to dramatically increase use of biofuels, especially in the transport sector. The transport sector already uses about 70% of all oil consumed in the USA and the EU – a proportion that is still on the increase.