The production of biodiesel on the basis of domestic rape crops is a technical and economical alternative to the conventional production of fossil diesel fuel. In comparison to fossil diesel, biodiesel has ecological advantages (CO2 balance in equilibrium, biodegradable). For this reason, the development and introduction of this product received assistance. This study, which is an up-date of a similar project from 1996/97, is an economic assessment of this new product chain, taking into account the following factors: its impact on GDP, employment, tax revenue, subsidies, imports, private investment, private consumption and income from employment as well as from consultancy services and assets.
Input-output calculations will be carried out, using the input-output tables of the Federal Statistical Office as the starting point. These will be expanded by three sectors that portray the biodiesel chain. These are the production of rape seed on fallow land (non-food fields), the production of rape seed on conventional fields (food fields), the production stages of oil production and transestrification to rapsmethylester (RME), otherwise known as biodiesel. Both agricultural sectors take into consideration the foregone use alternatives.
Data collections in the agricultural and food sectors, internal data of the affected economic sectors.
Due to the great influence of the prices in the model, simulations will be conducted and the results presented in tabular form.
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