biodiesel

Shewhomustbe...

Is it illegal to use biodiesel in your car?

unkel

Shewhomustbe... wrote:

Is it illegal to use biodiesel in your car?

That's a good question! In the current environment with very high fuel prices a lateral thinking person like yourself will come up with a potentially radical solution

I don't have a lot to offer for an answer but to encourage fellow posters to comment

An interesting thing I read a few months ago though. If you drive an ancient technology car (like a peugeot / renault mid 90s diesel), people have claimed it is perfectly safe to fill it up with 25% diesel and 75% sunflower oil or used chippy fat :eek:

As pure sunflower oil doesn't atract fuel duty and is cheaply available in the price-fighters like Lidl or Aldi, it might make for an interesting alternative!

John R

I thought that if you use it as fuel then fuel duty does need to be paid.
Several years ago a mate of a colleague arrived at the office with an old diesel car full of chippy fat and went into great length about it and how he was "evading" the taxman. Frankly they could have tracked him halfway across the country by smell, it was rank and the smell lingered for hours.