The Geopolitics of Green Jet Fuel
EU Policy, Global Conflict, and the Race for Sustainable Aviation Fuel

About this book:

The sky is the new battlefield. As the EU’s ReFuelEU mandates force airlines to blend sustainable aviation fuel into every departure from European runways, a frantic, multi-billion-dollar scramble has erupted—one that pits Brussels’ regulatory stick against Washington’s IRA subsidies, Big Oil’s strategic pivot against China’s biorefining ambitions, and the Global South’s biomass against the North’s net-zero deadlines. *The Geopolitics of Green Jet Fuel* pulls back the curtain on the most consequential energy transition you’ve never heard of: the race to replace the kerosene that binds globalization together.

From the waste-oil tankers crossing oceans under dubious certificates to the Gulf sheikhdoms racing to reinvent Dubai and Doha before fossil supremacy collapses; from the chokepoints of Hormuz to the deforestation frontiers of the Amazon and Borneo—this book maps the fierce, messy geopolitics of feedstock. It exposes why “drop-in” fuels are anything but simple: why used cooking oil has become a strategic commodity, why synthetic e-fuels demand vast new mineral cartels, and why the physics of flight make every alternative a compromise. The transition isn’t coming—it’s already redrawing the map of twenty-first-century power.

This is not a techno-optimist manifesto. It is a hard-eyed dissection of the political economy of decarbonization: who pays the green premium, how airline margins and ticket prices will warp under mandate, why NATO must reconcile green logistics with lethal readiness, and how verification fraud threatens the entire architecture of trust. If you want to understand where the next resource wars will be fought, why the Inflation Reduction Act terrified Europe, and what happens when the fuel in the wing tank becomes a weapon of statecraft—start here.