Blair pushes for ‘eco-friendly’ petrol and cleaner, greener cars

It smells of popcorn, can be made from chip fat, and may just help save the planet. Every motorist in Britain will shortly be filling their tanks with eco-friendly petrol under government plans to tackle climate change.

The nation’s cars will switch to using a mix of ordinary diesel or petrol with ‘biofuel’, a cleaner alternative made from plant oils, by 2010, in an attempt to reduce harmful emissions from traffic.