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Old 17-03-08, 06:04 PM   #31
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two words for diesel drivers ( cooking oil )
Two more: Common Rail
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Old 17-03-08, 07:25 PM   #32
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Nope, you want direct injection for cooking oil and it better be filtered and refined first. Also as illegal as running on red diesel, if you're not telling and paying the tax man.
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Old 17-03-08, 08:38 PM   #33
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i know a belingo that runs fine on 1/3rd cooking oil with no modifications.
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Old 17-03-08, 08:41 PM   #34
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two words for diesel drivers ( cooking oil )
Price has gone through the roof, its about 70p a litre now.
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Old 17-03-08, 08:43 PM   #35
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i know a belingo that runs fine on 1/3rd cooking oil with no modifications.
Yes, but a Hilux Surf will run on 100% cooking oil and has done for over 18 months.
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Yes, but a Hilux Surf will run on 100% cooking oil and has done for over 18 months.
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Old 17-03-08, 11:35 PM   #37
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Apparently there was a new record today, its cracked over $110 a barrel i think - joy. I remember people saying the prices when they would actually stop driving cars/vans. In today's money I reckon over ?1.80 a litre I would have to stop, especially as they are all leisure trips as well. I don't think the bike would go until it hit ?3/litre though.

On the upside the government has got the luxury of cutting tax to control prices. Personally I think a serious cut of the oil companies profits should be returned, everyone is blaming the government but the oil companies are really to blame. They make silly, silly money.
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Old 17-03-08, 11:48 PM   #38
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On the upside the government has got the luxury of cutting tax to control prices. Personally I think a serious cut of the oil companies profits should be returned, everyone is blaming the government but the oil companies are really to blame. They make silly, silly money.
In fact, the government makes more out of a litre of fuel than the oil companies, thanks to tax.

I'm not sure regulating the oil companies would actually help that much.
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Old 17-03-08, 11:57 PM   #39
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In fact, the government makes more out of a litre of fuel than the oil companies, thanks to tax.

I'm not sure regulating the oil companies would actually help that much.
This is true but whilst at least the majority of the money that goes to the goverment makes it back to the people of the UK. I expect most of the oil money goes offshore and the stuff that stay here dosnet really filter back into the ecomony in the same way as tax revenue.

I with you on regualtion though, I think the big companies are too big for our goverment to take on.
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They make silly, silly money.
Not from forecourt sales though, thats why every filling station is a retail outlet, same as every airport - their revenue does not come from their core business. The oil companies do make huge profits from the sale of oil products, but not from sales to motorists.
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