biodiesel mandate in nsw, page-5

Unlike imported ethanol, imported biodiesel is not subject to the 38.14c-a-litre fuel excise, so the biodiesel imports from Asia are effectively subsidised by Australian taxpayers. Rex Wallace, the chief financial officer of the Adelaide-based Environmentally Friendly Fuels, said his company had purchased five million litres of palm oil-based biodiesel in recent years.

"We would not need to import it if people could produce a quality product on a regular basis in Australia," he said. "We would love to buy more local produce but it's just not there." http://www.orangutans.com.au/Manager/Item.aspx?id=Imported-biofuel-a-risk-to-wildlife&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

but http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/hanstrans.nsf/v3ByKey/LC20070509

The Hon. TONY KELLY: No, that is not true. It is not the time for talk. As I said, very shortly I will bring forward legislation that introduces for the first time in Australia a mandate for ethanol.

so what's going on? are we talking ethanol a biofuel or biodiesel?

What it has done to the domestic biodiesel industry with the recent fuel tax changes is nothing short of policy vandalism. It has killed the future of the biodiesel industry with its scorched earth policy where the environment, jobs and fuel of purity come a distant second to economic rationalism gone mad. And what have The Nationals done about this? Nothing. They carp about the benefits of biofuels—I think Barnaby Joyce made it one of his so-called four pillars—but when it comes to action they are nowhere to be seen. It is all talk and no action, similar to the deregulation of the dairy industry, the flogging off of Telstra and the new industrial relations laws. The Nationals are irrelevant in opposition and powerless in government.

The States and Territories have given up on the Federal Government when it comes to biofuels. That is why this Government will proceed to bring in legislation to ensure that for the first time in Australia there is a biofuels mandate. As the Premier said, the time for talk is over. Now is the time for action. The Government is leading the way when it comes to alternative fuel. Proof of our leadership will be forthcoming during this session of Parliament when we move to legislate this mandate.

Are you still confused??