This stuff is made with 5% re cycled chip and cooking oil yet surprisingly, isnt 5% cheaper than 'regular' diesel.
Personally, I think the distributor is going to be disappointed with sales even if it is greener but still costs the same as the regular stuff!
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IIRC the duty on biodiesel is 20p per litre lower than on mineral fuel, so with a 5% mix the saving in duty is 1p per litre, the production cost, also IIRC, is slightly higher than fossil fuel so I would not expect much price difference anyway.
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As you say Brian, recycled chip oil is not free, and neither is converting it into diesel. Biodiesel is already widespread in Europe, where the lower tax has been in place for years. If you fill up in France you might not even know you're using a fuel that includes it. Apparently a small amount is added to petrol to help even up the burn in the absence of lead. Is this true?
In San Francisco the buses run on a diesel/biodiesel mix on the open road, and hook up to overhead electric cables downtown to reduce local pollution, which seems like a good idea to me. Even so, on a bad day you can break your teeth on hydrocarbons, mostly produced by petrol cars of course.
Chris
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Eh trolley buses! Why did they ever take them off the roads? With a bit of foresight (ahem!) technological advances would have meant they wouldn't have to on the wires all the time.
Trams are making a come back, maybe trolley buses could be next?
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Trams and trolley buses both suffer from the same restriction in that overtaking of one by another is difficult/impossible, so a following one has to wait whilst one in front loads/unloads passengers.
There are few streets in UK cities where there is space to install passing places or dedicated stopping bays.
IMHO they are OK on a single route, but too inflexible to give a practical complex service.
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Surely the whole point of a tram system is that they dont overtake each other. They follow set routes, a set time apart. The Metrolink in Manchester works very well (apart from ruch hour when its a little overcrowded).
Jonathan
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Greenergy who introduced City Diesel many years ago are now starting to sell a diesel with 5% biodiesel. This saves 1p a litre tax but costs more to produce. Very few diesel engines will run on 100% biodiesel but most will accept a 5% blend.
See www.greenergy.co.uk/index.html and look for Globaldiesel
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