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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to stop promoting biofuels as an alternative to petroleum. More details
Submitted by Robert Heath – Deadline to sign up by: 10 October 2007 – Signatures: 114
More details from petition creator
Biofuels are not a valid replacement for petrol.
Planting the crops not only causes mass deforestation, it also displaces people. More importantly, its carbon footprint is actually higher than that of current fuels.
The government's plans intend to ensure that by 2050 a third of the fuel used in Britain will be biofuel. The government uses this as indication that it is becoming more eco-friendly. The reality is that it is actually more destructive.
If Britain wants to combat global warming and climate change it cannot push the carbon cost on to the countries producing the fuels, the government's current retort to the fact biofuel is as a whole more damaging than oil. Global warming is, after all, global.
This petition requests that the Prime Minister acknowledge that biofuels are neither sustainable nor ecologically sound and stop promoting them in Parliament, and to the public, as being such.
Current signatories
Robert Heath, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Amy Benziane
- EIRLYS DAFYDD
- Matthew Bruce
- Neil Clarke
- Liam Baldry
- John Talbot
- Tim Joslin
- Almuth Ernsting
- Muriel Gasnier
- Oisin Little
- ian fiddies
- Frances White
- Alister William Coutts
- Hilary Griffiths
- Sarah Clayton
- Robert Palgrave
- Jean Hopwood
- Barbara Edwards
- Leo Murray
- Stephen Rainbird
- jenni Young
- Jesse Harris
- W Arthur Chapman
- Clare Palgrave
- Sue Broughton
- Robert King
- Denis Palgrave
- Isobel Palgrave
- Jimmy Kent
- Chris Gooch
- Ian Lander
- Horatio Morpurgo
- Jo Pycroft
- Lynda Cowles
- Tim Ellis
- Sandra Bensley
- Lesley Churchill-Birch
- Elizabeth Hughes
- Graham Lingley
- Elizabeth Green
- Ann Jones
- Andrew Cormie
- Mike Joslin
- Marion Clarke
- Nic Lee
- stephen kay
- Richard Dingle
- Ian Hall
- Deborah Loe
- Giles Gooding
- Gunnar Moeller
- Michelle Hickman
- Stephen Trinder
- Ian Smith
- Tam Nguyen
- Robert Simpson
- Chris van den Bos
- nicola henderson
- Julie Russ
- Janet Parsons
- Stephen Stretton
- Adrian Sie
- Peter Gray
- Olwen Gillespie
- John A. Bolitho
- tracy simms-patterson
- Adam Walmsley
- Rob Ryan
- Marilyn Walsh
- Allan Kelly
- Ken Finn
- Andrew Boswell
- John Ellerby
- Mark Crutchley
- Alex Lee
- Pat Gowen
- Norma Gowen
- Sebastiana Mikulova
- Dr. Karl J. Brazier
- Rosemary Lovegrove
- Henry Lovegrove
- Anthony Welsh
- Claire Stephenson
- Mark Champion
- Dr. Jeremy Bartlett
- Helen Johnson
- Matthew Wicks
- Mike Maybury
- Richard Wilson
- Tom Tamplin
- Susan Schnadhorst
- Leonard Morrison
- Godfrey Whitehouse
- Greg Colbourn
- Tim Pinder
- Diane R Carroll
- Roderick N Carroll
- Michael Andrew Windermere Chambers
- andy hart
- Anne Napier
- Marc Brett
- James Porter
- Vera and Donald Hunter
- Rob McCormack
- Liam Slater
- Derek R Allum
- Margaret Moscrop
- Claire Rowan
- Anthony Rowles
- Daniel Syddall
- Michael Sackin
- chris gillham
- Stuart Leather
