EC chiefs are planning tax incentives to encourage British motorists

to fill up their petrol tanks from Europe's wine lake.

Vast streams of unsold wine are being distilled into alcohol, and

officials are desperate to get rid of it.

At the moment, much of the alcohol is sold to Brazil, where it is used

as fuel for cars.

''A proposition is being prepared to give an important fiscal

incentive for using fuels of agricultural origin,'' taxation

Commissioner Christiane Scrivener told a meeting in Paris yesterday.