veggie oil?? (was RE: Audi 5000 Diesel conversion)

[mike]

In the UK bio diesel is a mainstream product produced
by the oil companies and sold alongside regular fuel
at petrol stations and at much the same price.

Burning old cooking oil (or anything else) in a car is
illegal because the government doesn’t get the fuel
tax. (UK for sure, rest of the world pretty certainly)

So, you can be sure that as soon as any cheap fuel
builds to a volume where it starts to hurt government
tax take it WILL be regulated and taxed

The UK situation is neatly summarised here

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,878122,00.html

Don’t forget, in the UK we pay very high fuel duty,
whilst you yanks are screaming about $3/gall we pay
£1/litre (which assuming 5l = gall, £1 = $1.70 and the
US gall = UK gall) works out at $8.50/gall

Hope all our transatlantic cousins are warm dry and
far away from windy places

Mike

--- Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com> wrote:

> 
> I am curious as to whether bio diesel users are
> specifically exempted 
> from the road use tax?  I suspect that as its use
> becomes more 
> "organized" (ie, businesses picking it up, filtering
> it, and reselling 
> it "ready-to-use", and manufacturers building
> vehicles prepared to use 
> it easily), we might see more regulation/taxation on
> the process.  Or 
> not.  Does anyone actually know?



	
	
		
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