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Originally posted by FV623
Having made the oil here, we have to tell the authorities its to be used as a road fuel and pay the miniscule taxes to make it wholly legal, but with fuel taxes at some 85% of the total price you can bet the loophole will be closed soon.
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Karmen, coincidentally, there was a feature on this subject on Dutch television last night. Although the EU has made it mandatory to have 2% of the vehicles running on renewable fuel sources, our government is not taking any concrete steps to realise this. They are afraid of loosing the huge excises charged on fossil fuels. But I believe private initiative will soon force them to take action, because in countries around us like Germany things are speeding up. The TV programme interviewed a Dutch entrepreneur who has now contracted farmers to grow rape seed, and he is having a mill converted to press the oil while other entrepreneurs are selling conversion kits for diesel-engined cars (like
http://www.greasecar.com/).
Art, I did not know Canada was a leader in using vegetable oil for I/C engines during WW II. You mean the lubricating oil, don't you?
Over here farmers have to use bio-degradable oil here in their farm equipment to minimise soil pollution. Next step would be to have their tractors run on rape seed oil, use the remaining matter as cattle feed so they are truly self-sustaining. Before you know it countries like Holland could be members of OPEC!
H.