Canola production estimate

[WiltonRanch]

Those buggers. Heard all of this “used” cooking oil coming into the USA for biodiesel from China. Sneaky as usual.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

The Chinese are better capitalists than we are.
The unintended consequences of making arbitrary regulations about solving an imaginary problem.
We are making renewable diesel out of new palm oil with the associated deforestation and labor issues. Because that is more renewable than domestic oilseed. And subsidizing them heavily to do so.
California is importing South American ethanol, but won't use North American made ethanol, and recently proposed a law restricting the use of canola oil in renewable Diesel and saf.

[shtferbrains]

Offshoring the emissions?
The rest of the world is just happy to take the cash.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Offshoring the emissions?
The rest of the world is just happy to take the cash.

Hard to believe that there are still people naive enough to believe that anything about the green economy is about the environment, versus power and money.