Wednesday, 28 May 2008

Fuel ... so far - so good

Ok, started putting more oil in the tank with diesel, 2 x 3 Litre's of vegetable oil with 30 Litres worth of diesel. I will probably drive the pug all week just to check that no real changes takes place. The price of diesel is £1.26.9 the price of vegetable oil is sadly rising too, to £1.16 so only a saving of 66p in total against the three COOP bottles saving at 97p.

Savings to date £1.56, I will save the money in a separate account to see if we can pay for the car in the lower rate of running before it goes on the run ! Mind you, driving the pug to work saves me £1.41 a day on fuel costs compared with the HRV maybe I should add that in too! The pug has better MPG ~ 50 as to the 30's even though the fuel is more expensive it works out cheaper .


carL per Mile
L per Journey (50M)
fuel £total
pug11.014.54£1.26£5.77
hrv8.146.14£1.17£7.18

So whats the percentage of oil to diesel in the tank now , haven't the foggiest, better do the maths...

20L Derv + 3L SVO + 30L Derv + 6L SVO means ~ 18% of the fuel is SVO ...

All very fun and exciting, meaning the tax man get less, we are doing less damage to the planet and it's costing less !

Ambient temp is 21 degree C and raining so the cool starting problem should be avoided.

2 comments:

Ross said...

"Drive it all week just to check..."

HAHAHA what a hardship. I am in awe of your dedication. Nothing to do with your wussy modern car deciding it doesn't need windscreen wipers and also has no reason to keep rain on the outside?

;-p

greg said...

Oh the shame of it !!!!