FOLLOWING a report that a quarter of bus routes have been axed in the past ten years, if the bus companies began to manufacture their own bio diesel, would they need to pay duty on it? Yes, according to a government website.

If the price of bio diesel became duty free for bus companies, could we then see lower bus fares?

The local authorities are in an ideal position to supply recycled cooking oil through their recycling schemes for the manufacture of bio diesel to the bus companies. How much used cooking oil is going down the drains of the UK currently?

More and more local bus services are switching to electric buses.

Would it not be better to simply start using bio diesel in conventional buses instead if we can?

Has anyone conducted an environmental impact study into the manufacture of these new electric buses?

Are the bus companies generating their own electricity to recharge these buses? If so, how is that being done? Are electric buses simply a gigantic green washing exercise?

Councillor Nigel Boddy

Liberal Democrats

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