"No," to colocass and potato biofuels, says Pang. Consumers' Union

The Pancyprian Consumers' Union is publishing its letter regarding the promotion and encouragement of the use of renewable energy sources sent to the President and the members of the Parliamentary Energy Committee.
and Quality of Life, which states that it rejects the production of biofuels from agricultural products, such as potatoes, courgette and others.

In its letter, the Pancyprian Union of Consumers and Quality of Life explains that it rejects the production of biofuels from these agricultural products, because they need irrigation and given the huge water problem in Cyprus, for this purpose crops that do not need irrigation such as native trees and shrubs.

Furthermore, it asks the members of the Energy Committee to ask the competent Ministry to provide alternative sources of biofuel production on the basis of scientific documentation of their proposals, since as they note, during the session held in Parliament to consider the issue, "the representatives of the competent "They developed positions and opinions in the Commission in an arbitrary and unscientific way, without being based on any study".

As the Pancyprian Consumers' Union adds, "our opposition to crops, such as potatoes and courgettes, is that this would have a very negative effect on the market and consumers who would pay triple the cost."

He went on to express the view that consumers "will pay the increased cost of fuel resulting from the addition of biofuel, will pay the certain increase in the price of water and the certain increase in the selling price of these products for consumption and a possible parallel increase." price and other related products ".

Source: KYPE