Eat more chips!

Site Issues 2008 Archive Room
#1

A pump station in York, has had to reduce its trading days from five days to two days a week. Why? Becuase demand has outstripped supply.

The station has, for the past twenty years, been selling bio-diesel, eighty per cent of which has been processed from re-cycled vegetable oil collected from chip shops, schools, hospitals and other users of deep-friers.

Now the station is being inundated by haulage companies looking to strike a deal. The price of the fuel is 94.9 pence a litre. Yes, that’s considered cheap in Britain. :smiley:

Please, say the proprietors, no more calls!

#2

Whats the average cost for a liter of gas in Britain

#3

It was your arm at the elbow, now its to the bicep. :slight_smile:

#4

In Germany we pay 1,50 € per liter. Dunno the exact conversion into dollar/gallon (too lazy to calculate) but it’s probably in the region of 10 bucks.

#5

4 liter is to a gallon I think, and euro is 50 cents more than a dollar I think, so about 5 to 6 dollars a gallon…holy crap.

#6

Hmm, Ok, if it’s around 4:1 then it’s between 8 and 9$ , because the conversion euro dollar is a factor, not a sum.
1,50 € are ~2,25 $
2,25 times 4 is 9.

#7

Petrol is currently around £1.15 in the UK, and Diesel around £1.25 (equivalent to $8.61 and $9.36 per US Gallon respectively).

#8

Ouch. It’s running about $4.00 to $4.50 a gallon here. Which is why the American market is getting cars from the Euro and Asian markets that never would have made it here a few years back.

Cars like the smaller Honda Fit, Toyota Yaris, Mazda5 van and 2 (as a Ford Fiesta), Nissan Versa, etc.

The underground bio-diesel craze began here about ten years ago as people now distill old frying oil into excellent fuels usually as a collective. Unfortunately, now restaurants are charging for it and some new diesel passenger cars are not allowed in NY or Cali for emissions reasons, which is pretty f***ing idiotic since tractor trailers cause far more pollution!

I was interested in the Saturn (Vauxhall, Opel, Chevy) Astra with the 200 HP diesel engine, but they haven’t even bothered to import it.

#9

Aww, that was my first answer but I thought it was too ridiculous. Wow

#10

There has been a spate of fuel stealing in my area including this kind of bio fuel.

It seems the most popular method is to drill a hole into a car’s fuel tank which seems rather suicidal.

#11

I thought for a moment you were going to say that the burglars had stolen your chip pan.

#12

I was wondering if restaurants over there now sell their waste oil, like they do here…

#13

Probably.

Down here, Mc Donalds, KFC and all the others sell their waste oil embedded in French fries, chicken, etc, whether the customers want it or not.

#14

I was visiting Mayfield lavender fields, yesterday, and suffered the misfortune of being stung by a bee (had to share that). However, another problem arising is the Rosemary beetle. Our cold climate normally reduces thier numbers. But now the winters are milder, they are becoming a problem.

More on it if you scroll down the link.

http://www.mayfieldlavender.com/

It was by the hedge in the background, that members of the hive discovered me.

http://www.mayfieldlavender.com/gallery/