'Growing petrol' hits: The biofuel debate continues to rage with the nation's most popular motoring programme taking a typically irreverent stance, reports Matt Davies

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He was attacked with a custard pie when he received an honorary degree and environmental pressure groups have called for his show to be scrapped. But even when Jeremy Clarkson and the Top Gear team produced their most environmentally conscious show todate, they still left behind a trail of destruction. With the aid of three rather extravagant tractors, Clarkson and fellow presenters Richard Hammond and James May descended on the family farm of NFU President Peter Kendall attempting to plant a fieldof oilseed rape. But they botched the biofuel experiment to the extent that local farmers had to be drafted in to quickly plant the crop.