Stupid thing is
It's illegal too. You have to pay 25p a litre fuel duty, and register yourself as a "fuel processor" or "Fuel distributor" to do that. And the government has all these emissions targets. Idiots.
(sabre-tooth monkey, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 9:40, 2 replies)

^^^ WRONG!
Get up to date. Last year the government issued a taxation waver on people self producing fuel and you can now make and use I believe 2500 litres of fuel a year without paying a penny in tax on it.

In other words it's a green light from Mr Brown to fill your car full of veg oil.

Just do your research as not all diesel cars will like this!!!!

Useful reading
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 9:42, closed)

Yay! You've made me very happy!
Apart from the general insult of shouting "Wrong" at me. Bastard.

Agree about the careful bit. But if your car cost £50 in the first place, why worry? I will be upgrading to a cheap, nasty diesel car in the new year, and fitting it with additional heaters for starting up.
(sabre-tooth monkey, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 9:44, closed)

Sorry
Wanted it to be eye catching for the wannabe savers out there who might have given up after reading your post.

Save the planet & money in one go! :-)
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 9:46, closed)

Well, big thanks for that.
Any idea where I buy the cheapest veg. oil?
(sabre-tooth monkey, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 9:53, closed)

Costco
Were doing a box of 20 x 1 litre bottles (NOT 1 x 20 ltr!) which worked out about 80p a bottle. That was 3 months ago though.
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 10:01, closed)

you don't have to pay duty
if you use less than 2,500 litres per year.

(Edit: beaten to it.)

Bosch pumps can handle it so you're totally in luck if you've already got one in your car. If you mix the veg oil with diesel you don't have to worry about it congealing and freezing in the winter.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 9:43, closed)

At least you have good manners.

(sabre-tooth monkey, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 9:45, closed)

it's nice of you to say so, thank you.
Normally I'm a complete harpy.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 9:46, closed)

I never figured out what a harpy was.
I'm from a small town in the Midlands. Perhaps the word is redundant there. Like the fact that Eskimos don't have a word for "snow", but 27 words that finely distinguish different types of snow.
(sabre-tooth monkey, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 9:53, closed)

's a big, screechy
bird, innit?

EDIT Not that I'm calling CHCB a big, screechy bird. I've met her, and she's even lovelier in the flesh than she is on here, and I, like most of us, definitely WOULD.

Three cheers for CHCB!
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 9:55, closed)

*checks CHCB profile photo*
*agrees* (in principle. Would upset partner if actually did).
(sabre-tooth monkey, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 10:00, closed)

Pfffft
She's changed her profile pic! She used to look like an angry mong in her other one, but even then, we all still would have.
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 10:02, closed)

you love the angry mongs, eh Bert?
A harpy is a vulture with the head and the breast of a woman. Note that in my profile pic you can only see the head and the breast of a woman.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 10:04, closed)

I certainly do
sometimes, I poke them with sticks, just so I can spaff in their lovely, pudgey faces.

Hmmm... breast.
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 10:06, closed)