For driving, no fuel is yet greener in the proper sense of using fewer overall resources than petroleum based gasoline, and we can acknowledge that an electric car is actually coal-powered.
"With the price of fuel it's too tempting for people to say we're only producing a small amount of fuel that stays below the criteria for being a proper registered producer with all the costs and all the bureaucracy and all the burdens that brings with it, " says Jim Walker, managing director of Argent Energy.
Proper accounting for environmental impact, an end to quarterly reporting of results and the phasing-out of fossil-fuel subsidies are likely to be near the top of the list.