"The Government", hmm what is that exactly right now? We have a King Maker on the prowl and a tired socialist regime that has reacted to shadow policy rather than ever having been innovative. The recent car scrappage scheme didn't apply if you wanted to buy an Electric Car - one example! Biofuels are contraversial depending on what you're planning to grow in order to make fuel rather than food - ironic when 10,000 children die each day in poverty!

Nissan, I think, have also said that the Leaf will be on sale in the UK THIS year, maybe not made here just yet but available and whilst the debate will continue about the carbon used to create new cars and ship them around the planet rather than modify perfectly good already built carbon producing vehicles, at least availability of "no carbon emissions" vehicles is a start! As for the point... "In 2030, the UK will be selling cars to rapidly developing Asian markets" etc, does Ms King not know that the Chinese car market is already a bigger market than the USA? And with no UK owned volume car makers left, which cars might it be that we'll be exporting in such volumes? Would they be the Nissans, Hondas, Toyotas etc that originate in Asia? Hmm, makes you think doesn't it?

The UK Govt has never picked winners, so the industry (or rather the market) will take care of itself...and the UK will almost certainly lose out yet again!