Cost of green jet fuel could match kerosene by 2018

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Report finds next generation fuels from non-food vegetable oils could become cost-competitive before end of the decade

The cost of some aviation biofuels produced from non-food vegetable oils could reach parity with conventional fuels by 2018 if production efficiencies continue to improve, analysts have said. Jet fuels...

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