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Alternatives - UK - Moves to boost biofuel use in cars
LONDON,UK -Reuters, by Nigel Hunt -Nov 10, 2005: -- Five percent of all motor fuel sold in Britain will have to come from renewable sources by 2010, UK Transport Secretary Alistair Darling said on Thursday... The requirement will lead to a 20-fold increase in biofuels use, which currently stands at about 0.25 percent of all road fuel sales, and the announcement received a largely positive response from the farming and renewable energy sectors... The measure, known as the Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation, should save around one million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions in 2010, the equivalent of taking a million cars off the road, Darling said in a statement... Biofuels use in the UK has been growing during the past few months, with supermarket giant Tesco Plc among those expanding sales at its forecourts... The European Union biofuels directive released in 2003 calls for a target of 5.75 percent on the basis of energy content...
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