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Motorists 'need to buy greener cars'
15th September 2009
Vehicle manufacturers are going green but car insurance customers in Britain still have some catching up to do, according to the results of a recent study.
British motorists languished in 16th place among Europe's car buyers in a survey carried out on behalf of the Environmental Transport Association (ETA), which aimed to find out which countries buy the greenest and most polluting cars.
Portuguese car insurance customers emerged as the greenest in Europe with an average CO2 rate of 138g/km, while the worst offenders come from Latvia with a figure of 177g/km.
Andrew Davis, director at the ETA, said car makers are building green cars, but they need motorists to buy them.
"The report found that strict new emissions laws are having a strong effect on the availability of cleaner cars, but wealth, motoring taxes, fuel prices and consumer attitudes … have much more of an effect on how clean a car is chosen," he commented.
Earlier in the year the ETA criticised the car scrappage scheme, which it claimed is a motor industry bail out "masquerading" as a green initiative.
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