Biofuel - worth the wheat? 

The BBC reported today that BP is planning a biofuels plant for a site it owns on the outskirts of Hull. If built, the facility will produce some 420 million litres of bioethanol from wheat every year.

It sounds like good news for Richard Branson and anyone with gluten intolerance, but there’s no mention in BP’s press release of just how much wheat is needed. We wonder where its partner Associated British Foods will find all that spare cereal in the light of recent poor harvests in America and Australia, both major producers of the world’s crop.

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