No fuel duty on veg oil

tenkfeet · Post by **tenkfeet** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:05 pm

Just been watching working lunch and they were saying you no longer have to pay fuel duty if you run your car on vegetable oil or reclaimed vegetable oil . At 55p a litre for vegetable oil almost makes it worth while to buy a diesel shed that can run on vegetable oil . The limit is 2500 litres ( about 20 k miles)of oil and you have to keep records.

That could be a big saving on your fuel bills . I suppose however if everybody does the price of oil will rise .

Their website is down just now http://www.bbc.co.uk/workinglunch/

Here is the tax man press release

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/briefs/excise-duty/brief4307.htm

Chopperver1 · Post by **Chopperver1** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:37 pm

I wonder if you can cook chips in diesel ?

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:43 pm

Chopperver1 wrote:I wonder if you can cook chips in diesel ?

alicrozier · Post by **alicrozier** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:54 pm

I remember going to ASDA with Thinfourth for emergency fuel for the Landie. Handy it comes in ready made plastic containers with integral pouring spout (and smells OK).

tut · Post by **tut** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:57 pm

The Welsh cottoned on to this a while ago, and were getting it for free from Chip shops.

It was an easy way for the shop to dispose of it, and the motorists were then filtering it and putting in a pint of additive, can not remember what it was, but paraffin or similar. You were supposed to pay duty on it then, around 22p per litre.

They did a 300 mile journey in an oldish Volvo diesel estate, and it ran fine.

tut

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:39 pm

White spirit, at a ratio of 10:1-20:1 or there abouts, removes the stickyness in the oil apparently....

Its also a good idea to filter out the chips...

/pikey

mckeann · Post by **mckeann** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:50 pm

RICHARDHUMBLE wrote:White spirit, at a ratio of 10:1-20:1 or there abouts, removes the stickyness in the oil apparently....

Its also a good idea to eat the chips...

/hungry

hmmmm

The_Rossatron · Post by **The_Rossatron** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:57 pm

Good news. What a farce it was in the first place paying duty on vegatable oil!

Scottd · Post by **Scottd** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 10:08 pm

The_Rossatron wrote:Good news. What a farce it was in the first place paying duty on vegatable oil!

Wot you mean, both our beloved main UK parties are very green, it says so in the Weekly News

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:56 pm

Hmm mmmmm mmmmm