"And if Asda's sales figures were anything to go by, unless he was running a fleet of buses across south Wales, the driver who had been pulled over by the emissions inspectors wasn't the only one. Wind your windows down in a Swansea traffic jam last spring, the rumour went, and the chances were you would think someone was having a barbecue. The local joke was that the whiff was particularly prevalent around the DVLC, the government's national car-licensing department, which is headquartered in the city. It was a nice irony, because, as the cooking-oil driver discovered when he was fined £500 and had his car impounded, the government is not amused by cheap alternative fuel. Diesel is relatively pricey because a large chunk of the cost is made up by duty. Cooking oil carries no such tax. But if it is put to use in a petrol tank, duty is due.

When, in September, just up the coast from Swansea, in Burry Port, near Llanelli, six more drivers were discovered apparently running their cars on cooking oil, the news quickly spread. "It was a media feeding frenzy," says Dai Davies of Dyfed and Powys police, whose officers were involved in the spot checks. "Everyone came down here, from the local BBC news to the New York Times." Within a couple of days, the story was in circulation of a crack team of law-enforcement officers swooping on south Wales motorists, of widespread tax fraud, of a hunt for the Mr Big of the cooking-oil scam."


http://www.sovereignty.org.uk/features/foo...th/biofuel.html

seems you just cant win

you find a way to save a few bucks on fuel and the gov. wants to stop you

the cooking oil police are everywhere...in america people do it for about .80 cents a gallon.

Well I never heard about it!?
Thank God im not Welsh.
But i guess thats the whole idea?

The shop does seem a bit tacky.

So does anyone know the mixture rate on the cooking oil, to gas ratio? Is the ratio 100% cooking oil??
All I know is, its time to get a diesel.

ive seen some sites that say use 60% deisel to 40% oil, seems to give a good product

though others do say you can use 100% oil if you like, it will work

well, if cooking oil is cleaner, why not convert to using that?

ack, wait, because theres no tax on it and the gov't will lose a lot of money...