No end to fuel duty rises

[icsys]

Main road fuels

Current effective rate per litre (£)
Diesel / petrol 0.4835
Biodiesel / Bioethanol 0.2835

From 1 October 2007 Effective duty rate per litre (£)
Diesel / petrol 0.5035
Biodiesel / Bioethanol 0.3035

From 1 April 2008 Effective duty rate per litre (£)
Diesel / petrol 0.5235
Biodiesel / Bioethanol 0.3235

From 1 April 2009
Diesel / petrol 0.5419
Biodiesel / Bioethanol 0.3419

The current duty differential of 20ppl for biofuels will be extended until 2009/10, in line with the alternative fuels framework.

In my opinion the duty on biofuels should at the very least be frozen indefinitely or reduced to the same differential as LPG.
By not doing so this government is proving that it does not care about saving the planet or reducing UK emissions but just wants to cream off yet more money from the British public.

[plumb bob]

Main road fuels

Current effective rate per litre (£)
Diesel / petrol 0.4835
Biodiesel / Bioethanol 0.2835

From 1 October 2007 Effective duty rate per litre (£)
Diesel / petrol 0.5035
Biodiesel / Bioethanol 0.3035

From 1 April 2008 Effective duty rate per litre (£)
Diesel / petrol 0.5235
Biodiesel / Bioethanol 0.3235

From 1 April 2009
Diesel / petrol 0.5419
Biodiesel / Bioethanol 0.3419

The current duty differential of 20ppl for biofuels will be extended until 2009/10, in line with the alternative fuels framework.

In my opinion the duty on biofuels should at the very least be frozen indefinitely or reduced to the same differential as LPG.
By not doing so this government is proving that it does not care about saving the planet or reducing UK emissions but just wants to cream off yet more money from the British public.

No Sh1t!

[JUDWAK]

Biodiesel is a joke nothing good about it
most of it is made in indoneasa ($$$$ spelling) its caurseing a war over there
pepole are dieing over land for Biodiesel
and the guy that invented it was from a small tribe there after finding an old landy left over by the logging company he made his own diesel about 20 years ago
then the big wigs taken over and rape there land to make it now poluteing and killing has they go
not that green then is it

[logey79]

Biodiesel is a joke nothing good about it
most of it is made in indoneasa ($$$$ spelling) its caurseing a war over there
pepole are dieing over land for Biodiesel and the guy that invented it was from a small tribe there after finding an old landy left over by the logging company he made his own diesel about 20 years ago
then the big wigs taken over and rape there land to make it now poluteing and killing has they go
not that green then is it

erm....people have been dying in wars for years so we westerners can get their oil/gold/diamonds/tea or whatever we want that we're unprepared to pay a fair price for.

also, forget biodiesel - veg oil!!!!!!

[pirate-storm]

it will mean food/clothes etc will be going up more n more to help pay for fuel costs

[Retribution]

[cataclysm]

...and the guy that invented it was from a small tribe there after finding an old landy left over by the logging company he made his own diesel about 20 years ago...

Funny... I thought it was Rudolph Diesel who started using biofuel in compression ignition engines.
As for Biodiesel, I doubt a small tribe has access to the equipment to perform methyl-transesterification.

Why am I even answering this flamebait?

[JUDWAK]

Funny... I thought it was Rudolph Diesel who started using biofuel in compression ignition engines.
As for Biodiesel, I doubt a small tribe has access to the equipment to perform methyl-transesterification.

Why am I even answering this flamebait?

you under estimate them
they been useing it for years

[icsys]

also, forget biodiesel - veg oil!!!!!!

Isn't biodiesel made from 100% veg oil but with the fatty glycerine removed?

[plumb bob]

Funny... I thought it was Rudolph Diesel who started using biofuel in compression ignition engines.
As for Biodiesel, I doubt a small tribe has access to the equipment to perform methyl-transesterification.

Why am I even answering this flamebait?

Rudi diesel ran his first "diesel" engine on peanut oil