WHITE HOUSE PUSHES FOR MORE BIOFUELS IN AVIATION

In an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation industry by 20-percent, the current administration is calling for the use of biofuels, also known as sustainable aviation fuels (SAF). SAF’s are fuels that lower lifecycle GHG’s by 50-percent as compared to conventional fuels, but current production capacity in the U.S. is maxed out at 1 billion gallons per year and the predicted amount of SAF’s required to meet air traffic demand by 2050 will be 35 billion gallons. Government funding and incentives (namely grants) will be utilized to ramp up U.S. SAF production, rather than biofuel mandates. The new biofuel policy applies to all non-military flights within (and departing from) the U.S.