Is there any prospect of biodiesel coming onto the market and if so in commercial quantities.
I believe that the Chancellor indicated in the recent budget that the tax would be 20p per litre lower than on the fossil fuel version, but will actually be cheaper or will the "saving" be lost in higher production costs.
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www.biodiesel.co.uk should have some considered answers to those questions.
As I understand things, the biodiesel duty rate will only apply to biodiesel made from recycled vegetable oils. However, I hope I am contradicted.
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Thanks for the link, Neil.
It looks like it isn't available commercially, won't be for at least 5 years, if at all, and Gordon Brown was trying to sound green and generous when there was no substance at all to the announcement.
All spin and no delivery, as usual.
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It's more likely to become a component of existing diesel, so diesels would become gradually more solar powered as the amount of Biodiesel increased. I read somewhere that it is already used to improve lubricity after the removal of sulphur. The reason we don't have it now is because the big oil companies (and the oil producing nations, us included) are afraid of losing their revenues if every agricultural nation suddenly became an oil producing nation. Something for our farmers to think about maybe.
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