Re: [Biofuel] Japan GHG Emissions
... which sounds the death knell for the ill-advised DieselNo! campaign initiated by Tokyo's foolish rightwing mayor Ishihara as a cheap vote-catcher, and since spread to other centres. And it ushers in an extra edge for biodiesel, being carbon neutral. Some of our friends have used biodiesel and catalytic converters to outwit the DieselNo! campaign restrictions - oops, no emissions, or well within the limits anyway, so they now happily drive their diesels in the restricted areas. The only problem is that the owner is required to pay for the emissions tests, and it's expensive, something like $3,000, ridiculous. Diesels are held guilty until proven innocent, at your expense, not the authorities'. That will change too. We'll help it to change when the time comes. (...) $3,000 ! The full compulsory security control for cars in France, including emission test (opacity - particles, CO, CO2, SO2) is less than 45 ! And a good result at the emission test is very easy to get, even with an old smoky car: you can buy special fuel additives in every supermarket that enhance carburation efficiency and clean the engine up just the time you need. I failed to the emission test with a diesel car fueled with a mix of about 20% of full sunflower oil (and 100% veg.oil the month before). I still have doubts on the reliability of the usual control in my case. I didn't want to cheat but the tip has been to add the magic additive and run the engine with very high rpm for a while before trying again. If you don't pass the test, and get the legal sticker for your windshield, you may pay a very expensive fee. Few years ago, a green minister of environment installed a system of green sticker for motor vehicles in France. In case of hight rates of ozon inside cities, only the vehicles with green stickers are allowed to drive inside city limits. All diesel cars are excluded of getting the green passport. But the exceptions to the rule are so large, that this decision is obviously not effective. Down GHG emissions must not be a goal that can allow everything. In France, the nuclear lobby use this argument to force the choice of building new nuclear power plants and promote electricity for any purpose, including individual transportations. So there is no more money for research or help for alternatives energies, and other bad effects... FD ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
[Biofuel] Japan GHG Emissions
Japanese Gov't Backs Away from New Carbon Tax http://www.greencarcongress.com Japan is one of the signatories of the Kyoto treaty, and was the host of the 1997 UN convention on climate control, but its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are going in the wrong direction -- i.e., more emissions, not less. Instead of being on track to meet its reduction target of 6% below 1990 levels by 2010, Japan has seen its emissions rise to 8% above 1990 levels at the end of last year. To meet the Kyoto targets by 2010, Japan now will have to reduce emissions by 14% based on last year's rate. If emissions continue to climb, the amount of reduction would of course have to increase as well. The transportation sector accounts for an estimated fifth of the total. The Environment Ministry is responding with planned stricter emissions standards in October 2005, and last week announced a new carbon tax. One week later, the Environment Ministry has decided to give up the planned implementation of the carbon tax in favor of more discussion. (Japan Today) The tax as originally conceived would have levied a surcharge on processors and importers of fossil fuels of 3,400´ ($32) per ton of carbon, the surcharge presumably to be passed on to consumers. Internal opposition to that amount pushed it down to 2,400´/ton ($23). Consumers would have paid approximately 1.5´ ($0.014) extra per liter of gasoline, according to the ministry. The average annual burden on households would have come to approximately 3,000´ ($28). (The Japan Times) Industry opposed to green tax Nov 11, 2004 http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=featureid=784 ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] Japan GHG Emissions
campaign initiated by Tokyo's foolish rightwing mayor Ishihara as a cheap vote-catcher, and since spread to other centres. And it ushers in an extra edge for biodiesel, being carbon neutral. Some of our friends have used biodiesel and catalytic converters to outwit the DieselNo! campaign restrictions - oops, no emissions, or well within the limits anyway, so they now happily drive their diesels in the restricted areas. The only problem is that the owner is required to pay for the emissions tests, and it's expensive, something like $3,000, ridiculous. Diesels are held guilty until proven innocent, at your expense, not the authorities'. That will change too. We'll help it to change when the time comes. Meanwhile more and more people here are making their own biodiesel, and promoting it, and all credit for that goes to Midori Hiraga of Journey to Forever. All other biodiesel projects here have either been centralised or depended on these extremely expensive processors a few companies here sell - $70,000 to $200,000 for processors with a 100-litre a day capacity and a poor-quality product that doesn't pass the completion tests. But now people are building their own processors for not very much and making high-quality fuel that passes any test you like. Revolutionary, and it's really taking off now. Best wishes Keith Japanese Gov't Backs Away from New Carbon Tax http://www.greencarcongress.com Japan is one of the signatories of the Kyoto treaty, and was the host of the 1997 UN convention on climate control, but its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are going in the wrong direction -- i.e., more emissions, not less. Instead of being on track to meet its reduction target of 6% below 1990 levels by 2010, Japan has seen its emissions rise to 8% above 1990 levels at the end of last year. To meet the Kyoto targets by 2010, Japan now will have to reduce emissions by 14% based on last year's rate. If emissions continue to climb, the amount of reduction would of course have to increase as well. The transportation sector accounts for an estimated fifth of the total. The Environment Ministry is responding with planned stricter emissions standards in October 2005, and last week announced a new carbon tax. One week later, the Environment Ministry has decided to give up the planned implementation of the carbon tax in favor of more discussion. (Japan Today) The tax as originally conceived would have levied a surcharge on processors and importers of fossil fuels of 3,400´ ($32) per ton of carbon, the surcharge presumably to be passed on to consumers. Internal opposition to that amount pushed it down to 2,400´/ton ($23). Consumers would have paid approximately 1.5´ ($0.014) extra per liter of gasoline, according to the ministry. The average annual burden on households would have come to approximately 3,000´ ($28). (The Japan Times) Industry opposed to green tax Nov 11, 2004 http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=featureid=784 ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
