Re: Run on recycled cooking oil!

["Tony Sims" <simstony@domain.elided>]

> This is surely the way we should be going, but are governments going to
> encourage it?  Of course not, they would prefer to go on collecting the
tax
> they put on 'proper' fuels, and the UK government is particularly guilty
of
> this.
>
> There was something in our local paper recently about Asda (UK supermarket
> chain, now owned by Walmart) in Llanelli (a medium sized town a few miles
> from here) consistently selliing out of cooking oil, in fact selling more
> than any other branch in the country.  The police are patrolling the store
> looking for customers buying large amounts of cooking oil, and then
> presumably trying to catch them with the cooking oil in the tanks of their
> cars.
>

I saw an article somewhere recently talking about UK government efforts to
crack down on people running vegetable oil in their diesels to avoid paying
tax.  IIRC the fine for getting caught was significant.  Tax collectors are
the same humorless bastards the world around.

Tony
--
to be removed from alfa, see /bin/digest-subs.cgi
or email "unsubscribe alfa" to majordomo@domain.elided