 Public acceptance of biofuelsElectra Savvanidou, Efthimios Zervas and Konstantinos Tsagarakis Energy Policy, 2010, vol. 38, issue 7, 3482-3488 Abstract: The public acceptance of biofuels in Greece is examined in this work. The analysis of 571 face to face interviews shows that 90.7% of the respondents believe that climatic changes are related to fossil fuel consumption, while only 23.8% know the difference between biodiesel and bioethanol. 76.1% believe that energy saving should precede the use of an alternative source of energy. Only 27.3% believe that priority must be given to biofuels over other renewable energy sources. Only 49.9% think that the use of biofuels can be an effective solution against climatic changes and 53.9% believe that the use of biofuels can be an effective solution for the energy problem. Finally, 80.9% of the car owners are willing to use biofuels, 44.8% are willing to pay the supplementary amount of 0.06Â [euro]/L of the fuel market price, while the average amount reported as willing to pay was 0.079Â [euro]/L on top of the fuel market price. Furthermore, eight models correlating the eight main responses with several socioeconomic variables are developed and analyzed. Those findings heave important policy implications related to the use and promotion of biofuels. Keywords: Biofuels; Biodiesel; Social; acceptance (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:enepol:v:38:y:2010:i:7:p:3482-3488 Access Statistics for this article Energy Policy is currently edited by N. France More articles in Energy Policy from Elsevier |
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