Government Environmental U-Turn.
Not so long ago, the imminent arrival of our latest family member prompted me to buy a bigger car (my little Yaris suddenly had one too few seats). Not being terribly happy about purchasing a great big 7-seater car I looked at ways of minimising its environmental impact and made sure to buy a diesel vehicle so that I could run it on biodiesel. I checked for suppliers and was pleased to see that biodiesel could be purchased easily across the country in a 30% B30 mix at Morrison’s supermarket. This week I went to fill up only to find the pump out of operation for the fourth day running. Staff informed me that Morrison’s had decided to stop selling it. I was pretty unhappy about this, so I wrote to Morrison’s to confirm the situation and get an explanation.Yesterday a press clipping from the Times arrived in my inbox via their press office
Here’s the story online:
‘Flexi-fuel drivers left high and dry after Government subsidy U-turn
Drivers who took the Government’s advice and chose a low-emission car could be left with a white elephant after a U-turn by ministers.
Britain’s biggest supplier of biofuels will announce today that it is closing its pumps because the Government is ending financial support from April.
It is the second time in five years that the Government has changed its mind and cancelled subsidies after encouraging motorists to invest in a particular type of green car.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7021180.ece
Anyone else pig sick of this government waving its environmental credentials around and hoping that nobody will notice that they bought them from an online fake diploma mill?