Time to scrap levies on bio-diesel to boost production in the UK - Yorkshire Post Letters
From: Nigel Boddy, Greencroft Close, Darlington.
President Trump has decided to ignite a second Falklands War. We must retaliate by attacking him where it hurts - in the wallet.
During the last fuel shortage many of our local petrol stations ran out of diesel before they ran out of petrol. Why doesn't the PM consider scrapping some or all tax and levies on bio-diesel to encourage new production here in the UK, in the immediate short term?
Do not dismiss the good in pursuit of the perfect. McDonalds uses bio-diesel to fuel their fleet of vehicles. I imagine they know what they are about. Bio-diesel is easier to make than beer.
Why not give a 100 per cent tax allowance on the cost of conversion of all buses and taxis to bio-diesel? Perhaps Labour should never have imposed so much tax and fuel duty in the first place on bio-diesel 21 years ago.
Surely anything which diminishes the income of the current Iranian regime, Putin's regime and Donald Trump's regime simultaneously, is a good thing, is it not?
If Britain merely announced an intention to switch to bio-diesel, to get us over Trump's temporary bump in the road, that would reopen the Straits of Hormuz faster than any naval action.
Ours is still the sixth biggest economy in the world. The Iranian regime does not want to lose us as customers in 2026, when they were planning on losing our business by 2050.