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Simon Hughes unveils biodiesel taxi at Uptown Oil

Wednesday 7 April=20 2010

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Simon Hughes MP has unveiled his new vehicles for the = Liberal=20 Democrat general election campaign in Bermondsey and Old Southwark: a = taxi=20 fuelled with biodiesel and a folding=20 bicycle.

Simon Hughes stopped off at Uptown Oil to = refuel his=20 new yellow taxi

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The MP has for many years driven around in a former London taxi = painted in=20 his party colours.

His last vehicle has been off the road for a couple of years, but for = the=20 general election campaign he has bought an LTI TXII taxi which is = fuelled with=20 locally sourced biodiesel produced from waste vegetable oil.

On Wednesday Simon refilled the taxi at Uptown Oil, the local = biodiesel=20 producer based in a railway arch just off King James = Street.

Uptown Oil collects used cooking oil from London restaurants and = recycles it=20 into green biofuel at its SE1 premises. Uptown sells most of its fuel to = London=20 taxi drivers. Since the start of the year it has also been supplying the = London=20 Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

Simon=20 Hughes bought his new taxi from the Ascott Cab Company of Deptford, = who were=20 formerly based in Druid = Street.

And, to replace his bicycle that was stolen a few months ago, the MP = has=20 acquired a yellow Brompton folding bicycle from On Your Bike in Tooley=20 Street.

Simon=20 Hughes is the Liberal Democrats' shadow climate change secretary. He = has pledged to move to a = new=20 energy-efficient home in the constituency if he is reelected on 6 = May.

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Uptown Oil and = LSBU=20 academics cook up low carbon fuel recipe (3 Jan = 2010)
Southwark = biodiesel firm=20 Uptown Oil wins cross-party praise (22 Feb=20 2009)

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