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Feb 07, 2009
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When Virgin Airlines flew a Boeing 747 jetliner from London to Amsterdam a year ago February with one of the engines partly fueled by coconut oil and babassu oil, it was for the biofuels movement an historic event, sort of like Louis Bleriot’s first flight across the English Channel.

The flight was initially dismissed as a stunt, but as crude oil prices …

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