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

[mike]

and on a lighter note....

http://www.thatbebristle.co.uk/content/2004/11/oil.shtml


Mike

--- mike <mikemk40 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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