Richard Branson opened a vial of jet fuel made with oil from Brazilian babassu nuts
By dfred on February 27, 2008 - 10:41am
Sir Richard Branson, who announced that they did the first Airbus flight to use synthetic fuel. The problem is that the bio-fuel that he created uses some nut (babassu nuts) from the Amazon rain forest. We don’t claim to be above the average Joe, Sir Richard, but we are thinkers—don’t you think that’s going to hack off the rain forest environmentalists?
Source: Vancouver City Blog
...wouldn't that depend on whether you need to cut down the tree to harvest the nuts? Because that's not how it usually works.
The Amazonian Forest is so dense that they probably have to cut some trees to reach the BABASSU nuts. Or cut trees to create babassu nuts orchards.