"Very
likely" that UK will introduce E10
This is not good news for
the classic car movement for whom the damage caused by E10 on fuel systems on
classic cars is a serious concern. You also get less mpg with E10 petrol.
Why do the the renewable energy targets still apply to the UK?
Lord Bourne raised the prospect that "while leaving the EU, Britain could
still remain in the energy union" but quite how that will be settled as part
of the Brexit negotiations is not certain.
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article in the Daily
Telegraph today (14th July 2016) sets out how the UK is likely to "press
ahead with plans to hit EU renewable energy targets despite Brexit including the
introduction of a new "green" petrol adding 1p a litre to prices at
the pump". The transport minister, Andrew Jones, said it was "very
likely" the UK would introduce a new kind of petrol called E10 which
contains a higher proportion of biofuels than current petrol, in order to meet
a sub-target requiring 10% of transport energy to be renewable".
Last
year UK Government sources insisted the UK was trying to avoid introducing the
fuel (E10), saying that doing so would "shaft" drivers and was parts
of the EU's "war on the British motorists".
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