377 Deputy Paul Gogarty asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to revise the system of calculation of carbon emissions from flexifuel vehicles in view of the fact that although bioethanol cars burn less efficiently, the carbon produced is by and large the carbon absorbed by the plant as it grew, that is, a nil net effect, and this contrasts with petrol and diesel, where the carbon burnt has been absorbed into the oil over millennia or indeed electric cars which at present tend to be fuelled by oil or coal or peat burning ESB stations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41284/09]

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377 Deputy Paul Gogarty asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to revise the system of calculation of carbon emissions from flexifuel vehicles in view of the fact that although bioethanol cars burn less efficiently, the carbon produced is by and large the carbon absorbed by the plant as it grew, that is, a nil net effect, and this contrasts with petrol and diesel, where the carbon burnt has been absorbed into the oil over millennia or indeed electric cars which at present tend to be fuelled by oil or coal or peat burning ESB stations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41284/09]

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