{"id":818,"date":"2009-04-08T16:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=818"},"modified":"2009-04-08T16:00:47","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T16:00:47","slug":"uk-biodiesel-prices-to-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/818","title":{"rendered":"UK Biodiesel Prices to Rise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I mentioned my not so favourite fuel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?s=biodiesel\" target=\"_self\">biodiesel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been just over a year since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/98\" target=\"_self\">I took a look at how biodiesel manufacturers were abusing a government subsidy arrangement in the USA<\/a> to enable them to undercut European biodiesel manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union has now come to the same conclusion The Guardian did one year ago and started applying an additional duty to biodiesel imported from America, in a move to provide a level playing field for European producers of biodiesel.<\/p>\n<p>More details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fleetnews.co.uk\/news\/story\/Fleets-face-biodiesel-price-hike-\/49833\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biodiesel imported from the USA is now being subjected to an additional duty in order to allow European producers to compete fairly with US-government subsidised fuel producers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139],"tags":[141,660,171],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}