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my misses asked me this poser.... if she bought some land and used half to grow bio- fuel and the other half to build a private road (track) would she still have to pay fuel duty on the fuel she uses to drive around her own track? oh not agri- vehicle but car before any one asks... just wondered like?
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You are allowed to make and consume quite a lot of biofuel duty-free zookeeper. Don't know how much the kit costs though to make and store a few thousand litres a year of car-compatible cooking oil though.
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She could build roads over the entirety of it and run on red diesel.
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Hmmm.... Strange question for your good lady to suddenly come out and ask? [I'd worry...]
Still; if she gets contractors to prepare, sow, spray, fertilize and combine 3 acres of rape; then she can spend many happy hours pressing 150kg an hour using a £5000 press to extract 2,500 litres of oil - which then has to be filtered through a £2000 unit before adding methanol and caustic soda [she is well insured...?] in a reaction vessel to produce bio-diesel.
Then she could drive round and round until it's all gone? No tax due at all - and it only took 100 hours of filthy, dangerous, work and cost around ten grand - or roughly £4 a litre.....
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Sounds like it would be easier to buy a chippy and use the waste from that (suitably filtered!), then she could use all of the land for the track and not just half of it! ;)
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Did n't the Top Gear lads start growing their own fuel? Seem to recall an episode about 18 months back with much hilarity on tractors etc. Not sure there was any follow up.
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Yep, they supposibly used the fuel to race a BMW diesel for 24 hours in some sort of race....
Also something about May planting the wrong seeds or something - I only take half an interest when watching TG these days...
Edited by b308 on 31/05/2008 at 17:23
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I only take half an interest when watching TG these days...
That's because of BD Clarkson.
Very best regards..............MD
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