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Letter: Beyond biofuel

Published 6 February 2008

From Chris James

Jeremy Tomkinson says that biofuels “are the only available near to medium-term options for reducing vehicle exhaust emissions” (19 January, p 18). Not so. Reductions in national speed limits, firmly enforced, would have an immediate and permanent effect.

Chandler's Ford, Hampshire, UK

Issue no. 2642 published 9 February 2008

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