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Omdat de VS heel veel/steeds meer van die zooi produceert en dus hebben gelobbyed voor wetgeving voor het verplicht gebruik ervan.
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But Pekka Kauppi, a university professor in Helsinki, shed light on other reasons for the biofuel boom. In an opinion piece for the country's biggest daily Helsingin Sanomat, published earlier this month, Kauppi noted that biofuels were not being introduced for climate change reasons only. An alternative reason lies in the United States, where corn production per hectare nearly doubled between 1970 and 2000.
As corn prices began to reach unsatisfactorily low levels for producers, the US created demand for the commodity by directing overproduction towards use in fuels, Kauppi writes, noting that decisions on introducing biofuels were first taken in the US at the turn of the millennium, after which the EU followed suit.