Car firms and investors greet UK biofuel

From March this year half a dozen supermarket forecourts – in Taunton, Bridgwater, Bristol and Shepton Mallett – are preparing to supply the E85 biofuel under the Somerset Biofuel Project, an initiative which is seeking the “sustainable distribution of a locally grown, environmentally friendly fuel”, according to Mr Hilton.

Bioethanol made from grain produces 65% fewer greenhouse gases than petrol, according to the UK government agency Central Science Laboratory.

“There is the capacity to mobilise capital to build infrastructure to produce and distribute biofuels, and once you get the scale, the cost will come down,” Mr Meeks says.

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