Author Archives: Jim Roland

Opinion: Who would hurt all mankind, just to save face?

Back in September, Geoffrey Payne asked here on LDV what green activists who berate the Lib Dems expect us to do. Well, we could start by ditching our indefensible commitment to biofuel targets.

Later this month, the Council of Europe and MEPs are due to approve the EU climate package, including a commitment to 10% ‘renewable’ fuelling of vehicles by 2020, most of which is expected to come from biofuels; 6% can be met by those from foodstuffs.

Lib Dem MEPs have worked for some improvements in the package, but (along with the other largest political groupings) still …

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