Colourful Suggestion

[Octavius]

Can I suggest a green section (other than A&N/Environment), as it is a topical issue?

After watching Dick Strawbridge last night I decided I wanted to run my wife's Rangey on biodiesel. Having looked into it at http://www.biodieselfillingstations.co.uk/ , I found that the nearest filling point charges 85.9p per litre. Now my local garage sells ordinary eco-destroying ozone polluting diesel at 93.9p per litre. I would have to drive 14 miles to save about �4. Where is the incentive in that, apart from a minute planet-saving contribution?

Should I have put this in motoring?

[jno]

Do you make a special trip every time you want to fill the car up? I just stop at a petrol station when mine is getting low. Why not combine the trip to the filling point with a visit to an eco-friendly farmers' market, and stop at a wind farm along the way to admire the technology?

Or why not just sell the Rangey and encourage your wife to walk?

[Octavius]

It's not ours to sell.

[rugeleyboy]

i have started running my vehicles on bio diesel, the nearest one to me is only 4 miles away and they charge .82 ppl or if i have a 1000 litre pod they will deliver it to me for .72 ppl.

[Octavius]

Yes that�s what I was thinking, perhaps home delivery is the key. Dick had a large tank delivered to his door and it had a pump.

[jno]

I don't know if major outlays are the best idea... I'm thinking of ordinary diesel, which used to be loads cheaper than petrol because they were trying to promote its use; now the taxes have gone up so it's basically the same price as petrol. I'm all for filling up with corn syrup or whatever, combining it with other trips so as not to be too wasteful; but I'd be wary of building a home filling station on the strength of government waffle about encouraging its use. Brown or Cameron or whever could change their minds tomorrow.

[Octavius]

The fact that it harnesses the reuse of expended cooking oil to power a diesel vehicle and is zero emitting is enough for me to consider using it. As I understand it, around 83% of the fuel pump price is tax, so one way or another we end up paying through the nose. This tax is applied to biodiesel as well as far as I know, hence I know it is only a small gesture, but where is the incentive to go �green�? Or is it just the threat of making fuels, whether fossil or renewable, just too expensive to force people into not using fuel consuming equipment?

[JjP]

It should be put into motoring.

[dot.hawkes]

please couold you tell me what ppl and pod means please i am unfamiliar with this abbreviation,

[rugeleyboy]

ppl..... pence per litre

pod...... a device to store fluid.