A few months ago, I heard my colleagues discussing about the jatropha and its potential as a source of bio-diesel in the Philippines. In a news article of Philippine star last June 13, 2006, I found out that The Philippine National Oil Co. (PNOC) is planning to build a refinery that would process jathropa into biodiesel. (the author of the article use to spell it as jathropa).

I made some research about jatropha and later found out that jatropha seems already popular in some countries like India where it has become a source of livelihood and a promising source of alternative fuel in the future.

Like coconut and sugar cane, I hope that the development of alternative fuels in the Philippine continue to progress because we cannot stand anymore the continuous rise of the cost of fossil fuel oil products.