1. Is there a calculation of the approximate volume of recyclable cooking oil generated in the city? If so, what is the ratio of that volume to the volume of fuel needed to replace N4 oil?

2. Is there some estimate of the cost comparison of a unit of reclaimed oil to unit of N4? While a frequent approach, tax credits are a deferred benefit, and would need to be sufficiently large to close any gap in the unit price. But even if it is large enough, as a deferred benefit many users might still want to forgo it because a deferred benefit doesn’t address the cash flow challenges that many face, especially during winter heating months.

3. Both of these speak further to my biggest concern: if answer to 1 is that there is a significant gap and to two that it is not sufficiently cost effective such that a deferred benefit would in fact be an incentive, then it seems more than likely that this policy will push not recycling but the further diversion of agricultural product into biofuels. Such diversions already helped spur one global food crisis. What’s to keep this policy from contributing to more such crises? How will expansion of production into new areas leading to social and environmental destruction, as we’ve seen with rapid expansion oil palm production. But this isn’t just a question of imported biofuel, but also the continuing diversion of highly subsidized and corporate US grain production, which rather than “feeding the world” as they like to say, is instead feeding cattle and our seemingly insatiable appetite for fuel.

Curious to hear what your thoughts are on these issues.

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