Comment of the Week; France Bans Palm Oil For Biofuel

Here is a comment from the previous post :

Anonymous Saturday, October 12, 2019 12:27:00 PM

Punca pemimpin kita akal macam keldai. Kambing Zakir lebih penting daripada ekonomi. Negara shithole Pakistan lebih penting daripada peneroka kita.

This is the point exactly. What about our own people? Macam mana pula dengan nasib orang kita sendiri? Kalaulah India tidak mahu membeli 3.9 juta tan minyak sawit dari Malaysia, bagaimana pula nasib peneroka kelapa sawit dan pekebun kecil kelapa sawit?

And here is the latest development in Europe. The French have already decided to ban the use of palm oil for biofuels. This was not supposed to be "voted upon by the European Union" until the middle of 2020 but the French have already gone ahead and banned palm oil as a biofuel component.

Here is the news :

PARIS (Reuters) - France’ on Fri upheld law excluding palm oil from biofuel scheme

legislation removes palm oil from biofuels from Jan 2020

and eliminate related tax advantages

constitutional court said law in line with environmental protection

considering strong growth of palm oil production

and major amount of land used for production worldwide

deforestation and drying out of peat bogs

EU also plans to restrict palm oil in biofuel due to environmental impact

TAX EXEMPTIONS

Under French 2019 budget, tax exemptions for palm oil will end on Jan. 1, 2020

law specifies palm oil cannot be considered a biofuel

Tax exemptions for other biofuels remain in place.

My comments : This is supposed to be about 600,000 tonnes or more (for the whole of the EU).

European roadways are highly connected and European fuel refineries do not have to worry about border controls. Fuel trucks and trains just deliver fuel everywhere across Europe. Well not anymore. If fuel trucks carry palm oil based biofuels they are going to have problems driving into France. Meaning since the French have banned palm oil for biofuel, the rest of the EU will follow suit.

This is not the fault of Malaysia. But neither is it the time for finger pointing or passing blame. These are simply realities. Keadaan semasa dunia. These are facts. How are we going to deal with these realities? This is a real situation.

Dr Mahathir says we cannot 'confront' the Chinese because they are too powerful.

Hmm . . .so the Uyghurs will have to wait.

Here is my suggestion. Does anyone remember Tibet?

It seems like Tibet is doing quite well. The Chinese have dragged Tibet into the 21st century.

We know best how to handle our country. Buy Bukan Islam Last, make people disappear in the night, make official nasty comments about other countries.

So in the same way other countries also know how to handle themselves.

But lets get back to the Comment of the week above.

Siapa nak bela nasib peneroka?