Government urged to scrap duty on biofuels and drive biodiesel cars

THE Green Party has urged the Government to scrap excise duty on biofuels and has called for the State’s fleet of ministerial cars to be converted to run on biodiesel.

The party’s energy spokesman Eamon Ryan said the Government’s recent announcement of €3 million per annum excise relief was merely a pilot project and should be extended on a mainstream basis across the fledgling biofuel industry.

“This Government has failed to realise the potential we have from new green energy and has left us exposed to an over-dependence on fossil fuels and an unfolding world energy crisis which is putting the Irish economy at risk.