In a world where the demand for biofuels, especially sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), heavily outweighs the supply, it’s quite a curiosity that Shell, one of the most profitable fossil fuel companies around, pauses construction at its facility in the Netherlands. Shell said that the decision will help control costs and optimize project sequencing but in reality the company is worried about bringing a new product into the market at too high a cost, or rather can’t see a way in which its expected sale price will be competitive long term. Will Shell pull the plug on this facility later this year? We won’t be surprised if that’s how it pans out, because we’ve been calling the precarious environment in which…