Early on in my bio oil career I was amazed to find how much dis-information there was in the public domain concerning bio fuels. Things like "you can use straight vegetable oil in a diesel car with no problems particularly if you mix it with regular diesel" and "you can't put bio diesel into new cars" Probably the worst stuff was and still is that bio fuels are not the answer. They are responsible for a whole catalogue of evil things such as pushing the price of food up, accelerating the cutting down of forests and gaining no advantage on emmissions over fossil fuel!
One presumes there are forces at work here to dis' the honest bio brigade.
The next thing that amused me was to learn last year that the UK missed the target set by the EU on supplying a % of all fuel sold as bio fuel. We were fined millions of euros for that. Didn't get a lot of coverage in the UK papers though did it? THe target is even tougher for 2010. Predictions are we will miss that one too.
And finally if people think HM Gov are turning really green these days why do think they increased the excise duty on bio fuels in December 2006 and will increase it again this year? It just doesn't make sense.
Monday, 25 June 2007
Sunday, 24 June 2007
It was all so simple to start with!
The original idea was to make "local fuel for local people".
If you could set up a fuel club using waste cooking oil to supply car fuel tosome of the local community you could satisfy so many interests, not least of which was your conscience, regarding the planets diminishing resources etc.
It would also be cheaper (a big plus) and you wouldn't be giving your hard earned cash to the global fuel giants. Sadly you still had to pay excise duty to HM Gov, but that's for another posting.
How difficult could it be? After all, the whole world was beginning to wake up to the evils of emmission output big style in 2005 and this would help. Even HMGov was banging on about lowering carbon output and setting up working groups left and right.
Actually some of the Agencies, Environment and unbelievably HM Revenue and Customs were very good about it. Made it easy to start.
So why does our Gov and the car makers resist it so vigorously I wonder?
If you could set up a fuel club using waste cooking oil to supply car fuel tosome of the local community you could satisfy so many interests, not least of which was your conscience, regarding the planets diminishing resources etc.
It would also be cheaper (a big plus) and you wouldn't be giving your hard earned cash to the global fuel giants. Sadly you still had to pay excise duty to HM Gov, but that's for another posting.
How difficult could it be? After all, the whole world was beginning to wake up to the evils of emmission output big style in 2005 and this would help. Even HMGov was banging on about lowering carbon output and setting up working groups left and right.
Actually some of the Agencies, Environment and unbelievably HM Revenue and Customs were very good about it. Made it easy to start.
So why does our Gov and the car makers resist it so vigorously I wonder?
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