Carninore becomes an omnivore

Just stuck a litre of COOP rape seed oil into the tank to if it would kill the pug. At 97p per litre its currently 30p cheaper than the local diesel prices. It also is renewable and less carbon damaging. The tank was about a third full ~ 20 Litre, so in real terms means that the mix was less than 5% . As I said before we hope to get this up to 25%. It did feel somewhat like I was breaking the law as I opened up the filler cap and shove the bottle neck in to the tank (confessions of a vegetable oil filler part 1).

I have kept the receipt and am starting a notebook on how many litres go into the pug and when. For the truly sad cases I will also have a look at fuel economy. What started as a bit of a joke seems to be a new way of driving...

60 Litres of diesel = £75.60
45 litres of diesel + 15 litres of veg oil (97p) = £71.25 (£4.35)
45 litres of diesel + 15 litres of WVO = £56.70 (£18.90)

Now if we get into the realms of bio-diesel (ie mixing the WVO with a bit of non kerosene based white spirit) we could go 100% fill requiring 3ml per 997ml of WVO we get

59.82 Litres of WVO + 0.18 Litres of white spirit B and Q 96p = 96p (£74.64)

so if the car cost £100 quid we save that in a month in fuel alone ?



Ok it will take some time and money setting up the filters etc but that is amazing , the filter I just bought was £3.50 on ebay including post.

So I now need fuel drums, and white spirit. I have a funnel and we can get the WVO watch this space!