[Ian101]

its ok Graham from corrie loosing all his customers so I can buy his bike / cart 

[martinsadie]

Going to have to put my prices up when the vat increase hits in January

the customers will sack you when you do ,so they can afford the vat and fuel,best to leave prices alone 

[the bfg]

Diesel is a terrible price I am having to put £20 in my van some weeks, (up from £15). Terrible

oh no 20 quid a week,

big deal fuel is cheap wait til it runs out then you lot will be complaining,

not sure if youve read the post correctly but they are complaining NOW 

[ant french]

cant belive today i paid 127.8  it was some super diesel, all the norm diesels were out of use, convenient hey. im looking into chip fat, i waatched a clip on youtube with running it on used oil, as long as you have 30% diesel it wont freeze up or clog pipes

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

bio diesels cheap bout 97p a litre 

[ant french]

u seen how much veg oil is going for 1L  £1.18 same as petrol lol   

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

try bio diesel m8

[ant french]

  a quid a litre    heres a link to where they sell it lads  http://www.biodieselfillingstations.co.uk/region02.htm#Percentage%20Mix%20&%20Source:

[rosskesava]

cant belive today i paid 127.8  it was some super diesel, all the norm diesels were out of use, convenient hey. im looking into chip fat, i waatched a clip on youtube with running it on used oil, as long as you have 30% diesel it wont freeze up or clog pipes

You remember what an old fashioned chip pan looked like? Use cooking oil in any dilution when the engine is cold and the insides of your engine will look like that. Been there, done it, and paid heavily for it.

Also, if you start using bio fuel, buy a new fuel filter now. Bio diesel will clean all the old muck out the tank and pipes and clog up the filter. I've been using bio diesel for 3 years - it's much better for the engine and the engine runs much quieter as the burn rate is slower.

[ant french]

does it make any diff to power and mpg???  if i can get more mpg ill be a happy chappy

[rosskesava]

You get slightly slower acceleration but about 10% to 15% better mpg. Bio fuel, because it 'explodes' slower it gives more power over the whole downward stroke of the piston giving more efficiency. Normal diesel explodes to fast which is why a diesel engine sounds 'clunk clunk clunk'.

One drawback though, sometimes when in traffic, it can stink like an old chip pan.

Originally, the diesel engine was designed to run on peanut oil and a diesel engine can run on any heavy oil - soya, rape seed, etc or any mixture including old sump oil provided it's been cracked properly.

[ant french]

  yeh theres this bloke in my village who has a old nissan 3 liter thing tht smells like a chip van but u kno when hes coming lol might av a look at this option, theres a place nar me who lets u have an account and the pumps open 24/7. orrr ill look at the lpg route, dunno bout lpg tho    anything to save me sum pennies. you wait and see the goverment put bio diesel up to 1.20 soon

[chopsie]

lpg is for petrol engines, not diesel

[ant french]

ok thats closed that idea lmao 

[rosskesava]

One other great thing about bio fuel, because it's much less explosive than normal diesel, it can be stored in almost any plastic container. It is very very low on the list of explosive fuels/chemicals and wouldn't go up if you smoked near it although I havn't tested that fact out.

I buy a tank full and then fill up 8 X 25ltr containers and stick them in my garage as it's a bit of a drive to buy it. Places that sell bio fuel are few and fare between.

I pay 97p a litre.

[EZclean]

It's about 86 88 $ a barrel at the moment for crude. It's going upto 150-200 $ a barrel in the next 6-12mths.

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

thers a place in bury 

[Paul Coleman]

cant belive today i paid 127.8  it was some super diesel, all the norm diesels were out of use, convenient hey. im looking into chip fat, i waatched a clip on youtube with running it on used oil, as long as you have 30% diesel it wont freeze up or clog pipes

Just wondering how that would work with some vans as I don't think I would risk it.  On some vans the fuel pump relies on the oil content in diesel so that they don't seize up (this is what I've been told but I don't have the mechanical knowledge to know different).

[Paul Coleman]

a quid a litre    heres a link to where they sell it lads  http://www.biodieselfillingstations.co.uk/region02.htm#Percentage%20Mix%20&%20Source:

A good link but there's nowhere close enough to me to make it viable.

[cozy]

€1.21 ( 1.03 quid) in Boxheadland