Newsbot Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 Environmentally-friendly drivers could be better off if plans to introduce a new road tax go ahead. Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/...man/6293556.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RC-Drift.com Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 So how do you prove you use bio all the time? ...it's not always the best option - as I once found out!...It's made me uneasy since Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeky boy Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 The only way to do this is to drop the tax on biofuel at the pump. Can you imagine the queues at Laxey if it were 75p per litre ? It is much to logical a solution and is nowhere near bureaucratic enough to be implemented by the Treasury so it will never happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x-in-man Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Ill argue that I use BioFuel all the time. The fact that it comes from old rotten dead fish, dinosaurs, trees, plants and the odd neanderthal, should count as a BioFuel Im sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amadeus Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Biofuels Boom Results in Pricey Pasta Italian pasta makers say bad harvests and competition from biofuel manufacturers have led to a durum disaster. Consumers will be paying for it by summer's end. Mamma mia! The price of a plate of pasta is expected to rise 20 percent this summer as a bad wheat harvest and increasing competition from biofuel manufacturers send the price of delicate, delicious durum wheat skyrocketing. Italian consumers, accustomed to paying 70 euro cents ($1) for a pack of the good stuff -- half the cost of a cup of coffee -- will be the first to feel the pinch, but the Italian Pasta Manufacturer's Association will be passing the costs on to export customers as well. "Pasta producers have tried, with growing difficulty that has now become no longer sustainable, to absorb the high cost differentials," the Association announced last week. "But this situation cannot go on any longer in the face of the dynamics of the durum wheat market." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balin Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 IIUC there are some issues with biofuels. IIRC their CO2 production is prodigious as a fuel and there is a potential for their cultivation to replace food crops in some areas that need food......er.... more than biofuel crops. I've been wrong before though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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