Re: recycled cooking oil as fuel

"Mr.Nice." <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de
news:[email protected]...
> I was talking to a guy today who runs his van on oil from these guys
> http://www.bio-power.co.uk
> I'm going to look into is as a possible fuel for my 1984 110 (2.5 n/a
> diesel).
> Is anyone here running an older landy on this kind of stuff?
> or anyone know anything about it?
>
>
> Regards.
> Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.)

My dad used vegetable oil in his farm tractor . Was a International
Harvester, 6 cyl. engine transformed by Elbett, see
http://www.elsbett.com/wwwusa/engl/corporate.htm
Was working very well at low cost as the farm was producing tons of
sunflower.
Use of vegetable oil on roads is legal in France, but unfortunatly you get
so many administrative problems and have to pay so much taxes, it is not a
good deal...

Regards, Jean

On or around Wed, 13 Oct 2004 22:12:16 +0200, "Saint Clair"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>Use of vegetable oil on roads is legal in France, but unfortunatly you get
>so many administrative problems and have to pay so much taxes, it is not a
>good deal...

it is in this country too, but if you use it as road fuel you're supposed to
pay duty and tax on it.

not that anyone does, of course

Actually I think some do. There was an article in a mag about a year ago/
maybe this newsgroup where somebody had an arrangement with the local
chippy's and took all their used oil ; filtered it, treated it and used it
full time. To the extent that he had contacted Customs and legitimised it
all.



"Austin Shackles" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On or around Wed, 13 Oct 2004 22:12:16 +0200, "Saint Clair"
> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>
> >Use of vegetable oil on roads is legal in France, but unfortunatly you
get
> >so many administrative problems and have to pay so much taxes, it is not
a
> >good deal...
>
> it is in this country too, but if you use it as road fuel you're supposed
to
> pay duty and tax on it.
>
> not that anyone does, of course
>

>
> not that anyone does, of course
>

If you read the site then it indicates that this is fully legal road fuel
they sell complete with duty paid

I'll be trying it as soon as I can get it in the east midlands (must check
to see if it'll cause problems with the vectra), driving Tiggurr and
smelling chips - got to be good !

You have to look at why you want to use it - to lower cost or for
environmental reasons, the former you can do if you get the oil free and use
it as such even if you pay the duty

I would actually be willing to pay more for environmentally good road fuels
if it came down to it - I know that may sound strange but better than paying
into this world order of oil wars

The nice thing bout this setup by th look of it is that it takes power away
from the nasty oil companies and back to local people. Thats got to be worth
a few pennies of anyones money

Have a look at www.veggievan.org - they produce a very good book on
bio-diesel, oils and how to run vehicles on them

Rich
101 300tdi Ambi 'Tiggurr'
Please Don't Buy Coke - See www.cokewatch.org

On or around Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:27:45 +0100, "Rich Clafton" <rclafton at
lineone.net> enlightened us thusly:

>If you read the site then it indicates that this is fully legal road fuel
>they sell complete with duty paid

ooops. I admit it, I didn't read it, I took it as one of the typical
"cooking oil" threads. Mea culpa.

> ooops. I admit it, I didn't read it, I took it as one of the typical
> "cooking oil" threads. Mea culpa.
>

You're forgiven this time