Veggy Oil

That's only 2 cubic metres. Dig a hole, get a bit of pond liner... Bobs yer cliche.

Donner Kebabs. Not sure how the injectors would cope with the naan bread though.

But veggy oil is not biodiesel.

excellent idea, he could keep sardines too !! Sorted !

who's going to know? I bet the police don't often stop people and ask them what fuel they've got in the car and if duty has been paid on it?

Bigus

Does Lamb fat work as well as veg oil? Would the chili sauce fool the sniffer dogs looking for chipfat.

They would be naan too happy?

Surely an old Golf is, then, a good car to have in a dodgy area? Won't attract any attention, will blend in, etc.

I park my car around the halls all the time not had a problem yet.

Trouble is, it has scum-magnet badges on it.

I suppose he could always get a set of 'Driver' badges - that may well have the desired effect.

However, it's generally old cars that get targetted - ISTR you have a MkII Mondeo? - something that has integrated alarm, immobiliser and deadlocks, rather that 'easi-pick' locks as fitted to a MkII Golf.

Agreed, my brother cuts the diesel in his TD Land Rover Defender with veggie oil from Tescos, the only problem is if he's a bit heavy with the veggie oil it smells like you're driving a burger van :)

I'm seriously contemplating getting a Citroen AX diesel now because of this (I say Citroen AX as I presume it would be dirt cheap ?)

Many years ago I used to fit central heating in villiages / farms etc. Some of these oil boilers used kerosine, rather than diesel. Now, here is the interesting bit.

a) its a slightly lighter grade of fuel than diesel, but not so different than a diesel engine wouldnt run on it. At least my old diesel van had no problem. But It ran on esso blue when hot too!

b) its cheap.

c) its clear, (or it was in about 1977!)

d) it smells and looks like diesel

e) You can legitimately have a tank installed at your house and run say a garage heater from it.

You MAY be advised to add a little oil, (synthetic two stroke or something) as its a slightly lighter thinner fraction than diesel. Although still very low octane with low SIT temperature.

When the fuels are cracked at gradually higher temps, they come off basically in this order as far as I know. Gasses, propane, butane, etc... Petrols as we know them before blending etc including avgas.. Paraffins Jet fuels like JP4, JP8, Jet A etc Kerosenes Diesel Heavier fuel oils Lubricating base oils etc.

So my question has to be (and I dont drive diesels so never looked into it) why mess about with veggi oils when you can legitimately have a big tank of this stuff at home?

not when you're frying with it, no. When you stick it in a diesel engined car it would be classified thereas.

Under current waste disposal laws this would be a criminal offence if they were found out.

"Used Oil MUST be collected by a registered, Licensed waste carrier collection company. MUST sign and receive a Controlled Waste Transfer Collection Note. Used Oil MUST be in lidded containers. It is the responsibility of the waste producer to ensure used oil is properly disposed of. Non compliance is a criminal offence."

Would be silly not to.

Hmmm, you have a point. If all the sniffer dogs started licking the exhaust as the lamb fat vapour condenses, may raise an eyebrow or two.

It could do, it certainly fools alot of people into thinking that donner meat isn't roadkill.

Pointless tip: Don't eat kebabs from Monsoons on Oxford road, Mcr, they are woefull. 100 yards down Whitworth Street West is Locos, kebab par excellance.

mmmm! food and humour!

;-)

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Burgerman" saying something like:

Because if you use kerosene as a road fuel you are immediately liable to pay the full rate of duty on it, thus pretty much wiping out any advantage.

The used veggy oil thing works because the oil if free and the duty payable still makes it cheap. HMC&E, bastards though they may be at times, are fairly decent about this now they've had the nod from above. [1]

Apart from that, the whole veggy oil thing was an EU directive; as part of the Kyoto Agreement to reduce CO2 emissions, each member state had to introduce measures to incorporate alternative fuels by a certain date (offhand, I don't recall it).

[1]It was suggested somewhere else in this thread that you could declare a lot less than you actually use, but once C&E get a whiff of that, they'd be all over you.

No it wouldn't; if it was, ASDA would be happy to sell it as such.

Sadly, kebabs use pitta bread, thus rendering the joke invalid...