Legal position on using vegetable oil?

gyppo

Quick question here lads:

What is the legal situation regarding excise and running a diesel car on vegetable oil? By veg oil, I mean using litre bottles of Aldi's or Lidl's finest (cheapest ). Is it illegal, and punishable, or whats the story? Looking at an old golf with the 1.6 indirect turbo diesel engine, which would probably be a good candidate for this fuel.

pete4130

Try www.ecocar.ie for more info. They mightbe able to give you some more info. As far as I know there is still duty to be paid on the veg oil. I think it works out at something like 60c a litre.

Henry Ford III

Yep duty is due.

colm_mcm

how do they know how much oil you buy? surely you need only pay duty on one or two drums and the rest of the time pretend to be Ronald McDonald and claim it for "personal use"

G Luxel

How many bottles of oil do you need to get 200 miles out of the vegetable engine?:D Would u have to buy the entire shelf of aldi's?:eek::rolleyes:

mick.fr

Pfff just buy the oil and run, no point for letting the authorities know...