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[senco-forum] Keeping costs down

Jeff Hughes jeff at box42.com
Tue Feb 5 23:34:59 GMT 2008

Article: [senco-forum] Keeping costs down

You may find the daily bulletins from this web site helpful ....

http://www.petrolprices.com./

You can subscribe to get an email of the  cheapest prices based on
particular post codes.

I have found it to be right most days - except today when it went a little
haywire - it certainly gives you an indication of where to look and what
price level is reasonable.

Jeff


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> Hi  
>   
> Why not buy a diesel car and it on biofuel?  
>   
> Their are three options: 
>   
> 1) Run the engine on vegetable oil*  
> 2) Buy biodiesel  
> 3) Convert vegetable oil to biodiesel yourself*. 
>   
> * You have to pay tax to the Customs and Excise! 
>   
> I like option 2 because I have a DCi engine so option 1 is out and I am far
too  
> lazy for option 3.  
>   
> If you want to drive down the cost of fuel and save the planet the fix lies
in  
> making the alternatives viable. Once the market shifts towards biodiesel,
fuel  
> companies will supply it (currently a small group of independant suppliers do
 
> most trading). 
>   
> Moreover, govt has made the entire tax on fuel  issue about global warming
(and  
> not just raising cash to pay nurses and teachers) so it will need to make
sure  
> that biodiesel is significantly cheaper than  dinodiesel for some time to
come.  
> Big smiles all round. 
>   
> Also avoiding the big two oil producers will make life miserable for the  
> frnachise owners that run petrol stations and increase the market share of
the  
> multiples who earn in enough in non fuel revenue not to worry too much about  
> biofuels anyway. 
>   
> Aaron  
>   
>   
>   



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