INCREASE IN FUEL COSTS

That this House notes that due to an EU Renewable Energy Directive a change to all current petrol which is five per cent bioethanol, to 10 per cent, will result in almost 1.5 million cars throughout the UK requiring approximately 10 per cent more fuel to cover the same annual mileage; finds it reprehensible that this will result, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers, in 1.5 million drivers on average mileage having to pay around £260 million more every year, not as a result of increasing oil prices but purely as a result of an EU Renewable Energy Directive; and calls on the Government not to implement such a Directive.