Abstract
Biodiesel started to be widely produced in the early 1990s and since then production has been increasing steadily. The global biodiesel industry is among the fastest-growing markets the chemical industry has ever seen. World capacity, production, and consumption of biodiesel grew on average by 32% per year during 2000–2005, and the industry looks set for even faster growth rates—115% per year for capacity, and 101% per year for demand—in the years to 2008 and beyond. Germany, the largest biodiesel market, has excluded biofuels from taxation altogether. The main characteristic of Germany is to market 100% pure biodiesel, which is on sale in Germany at over 1,500 public filling stations.
Acknowledgment
The author would like to thank Sila Science for their financial support.