Selby council says a trial running vehicles on vegetable oil was a success - but unsustainable.
The war in Ukraine has forced a council to shelve its plans to fuel its vehicles with vegetable oil.
But a permanent switch from diesel was now "financially unsustainable" due to war-inflated vegetable oil prices."It was a good trial and successful until Russia invaded Ukraine - in essence that's what killed it," he said.
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