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Originally Posted by big al
Apparently a new bio friendly fuel that burns simiar to petrol but with lower emmisions. Understand Tesco is trialing sales in certain areas of the country so maybe if you try their site there may be other links from there. Some info on Bio diesel if you put that into search engine. Also Saab have a car that runs on bio fuel that is soon to be marketed over here. Hope that helps. PS understand it retails around 36p per litre so on a par with a cheap pint!
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Are you sure this isn't just standard LPG? I've been running it for years in my cars. I pay 34p/litre. LPG is environmentally friendly on 2 fronts. When burnt it produces massively less pollution than petrol or diesel. Secondly it is reaped during the pumping of oil for refining and currently less than 10% is used for useful purposes, the rest is flashed off at the rig. The more people that use it would mean a more efficent use of each resource released during the retrieval of oil.
Bio-Diesel is effectively any vegetable based oil(Rape, Sunflower etc) with a small amount of spirit to aid initial cold starting. The 'diesel' engine we know today was originally designed to run on peanut oil. It was only when the oil giants realised that there was a use for a product of the refining process that until that point was thrown away did we start to know it as a diesel engine. Any modern diesel will quite happily run on veg oil. The Customs and Excise are the people would would be a bit upset should you decide to do it though!
Ian