MarlboroLite -- Virgin's teamed with Boeing and GE to research biofuels (resulting in last month's babussu nut/coconut flight) but when they placed the 787 order in April last year, they said they had not yet decided who would do the engines (obviously they'd only be deciding between GE and RR). Branson said the offers and energy/emissions savings from GE and RR were practically the same, which begs the question why RR and whether there might've been some political pressure or him to go British....
