American Biodiesel Energy

Crude Palm Oil (CPO) is one of the main products of South East Asian countries like Indonesia and Malaysia. Those two countries together supply more than two third world’s CPO needs. CPO is the main source from many food and cosmetic products.

In the present times, there is a growing popularity of CPO followed with the high demand. It is not only the increasing demand of food and cosmetic products but it also the fact that CPO is one of the best materials for biodiesel production. We all know that biodiesel become a new trend for alternative energy. As a result, the CPO price is growing higher. Of course it is directly affected to the high price on palm oil products. Palm oil is one of the most important ingredients of Malaysian and Indonesian culinary, and off course the people of those countries got the worst effect.

It is not only the high food price. High demand of CPO for biodiesel leads to a new environmental disaster. There are a high deforestation rates in both countries and most of them are turned to palm tree estates. Both countries are having bad reputation in deforestation and high CPO price make it worst. It is true that Biodiesel could reduce Carbon Gas Emission, but with the vast deforestation, is it equal with all the benefits of biodiesel?