Running your car on vegetable oil
Miles Brignall | London, United Kingdom
19 March 2008 10:00
In an effort to get around the big rise in oil prices, thousands of motorists have taken to running their cars on supermarket-bought vegetable oil and it’s all perfectly legal.
Two weeks ago here in the United Kingdom, the average price of a litre of diesel went though the £1 barrier again, prompting many drivers of older diesel cars to consider using shop-bought vegetable oil instead.
Plenty of owners of cars with older diesel engines can run their car on vegetable oil — either mixed in with ordinary diesel or, following some modifications, entirely on such oils. Users point out that Rudolf Diesel originally designed his engines to run on peanut oil. The only downside is the smell that comes out of the exhaust, which has been likened to a barbecue.
The use of this “alternative” fuel was given a big boost in Britain recently when the UK Treasury relaxed the rules on the taxation of home-m
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