Twerto Posted November 6, 2007 Report Share Posted November 6, 2007 hmmm but surely the energy used to carry a case of beer/cider/crate of wine plus munchies plus normal food to the bus and then the mile or so to your house from where the bus driver decides to drop you off in the pissing rain and wind and sleet and hail pinging off your forehead.. Is much more than the £3 extra in fuel it costs to drive your car? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sudden Stop Posted November 6, 2007 Report Share Posted November 6, 2007 Cases of beer/cider/crates of wine never come back off a bus in Shetland, plus the occupants usually roll out of said bus wearing half the food whilst having left the other half on the floor/seat/roof/back of the shirt of the guy sitting in front... ....So no need to worry about carrying any of that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twerto Posted November 6, 2007 Report Share Posted November 6, 2007 true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dumbo Posted November 27, 2007 Report Share Posted November 27, 2007 just been ta da toon £1.19.9 whens it going to stop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest posiedon Posted November 27, 2007 Report Share Posted November 27, 2007 I just had a delivery of heating oil........43.69 a litre plus of course 5% tax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sudden Stop Posted November 27, 2007 Report Share Posted November 27, 2007 just been ta da toon £1.19.9 whens it going to stop? Arrr, but WILL it stop, that is the question? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fjool Posted November 27, 2007 Report Share Posted November 27, 2007 Wonder how easy it would be to convert my car to run off heating oil rather than diesel ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twerto Posted November 27, 2007 Report Share Posted November 27, 2007 there was an interesting section on the one show ( or what ever it is called ) on bbc 1 at 19:00 last night. where they are trying to figure out weather these bio fuels are friendly to the environment because at the moment they are chopping down huge areas of rain forest to clear ways to grow the necessary crops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penfold Posted November 27, 2007 Report Share Posted November 27, 2007 you can get your vehicle to run on most fuel fjool, I'm heard o Norwegians running there cars on aviation fuel which is near da same as heating fuel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shetlandcars Posted November 27, 2007 Report Share Posted November 27, 2007 diesel cars can run on normal oil from the supermarket, ie vegatable, sunflower, the trick is not to use too much in the one tank or it becomes too gloopy without the aid of a tank heater you should be able to quite happily run a diesel engine on 70/30 mix ie 70% diesel and 30% cooking oil. if you had a dual tank system and a heater you could start the car on diesel, let the oil tank heat up, say 10 mins then run the rest of the journey on 100% cooking fat - a lot of people still dont realise this, that diesel cars can run on most oils if you use below a certain amount a year you dont pay tax any more, there was a change in the law a few months back, heres a link for you to read: http://www.ravenfamily.org/andyg/vegoil.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fjool Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 That's a really interesting link. Thanks! So very tempted to tip a bottle of Crisp'n'Dry into my tank and see what happens! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shetlandcars Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 just make sure that it contains just the oil in the product, I suspect crisp n dry has other agents in it to create the crispyness, which i suspect arent all that usefull in a modern diesel engine! cheapest i found was at co-op for vegetable and sunflower oil. make sure your tank is filled with diesel first to allow the oil to mix with it. point i noted was that said oil is substantially cheaper on the mainland! point of law: I am just making this information available from other sources of information and my own observations, i am not to blame if something goes wrong! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mutton Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 The high fuel prices is another reason why Shetland should be independent. In Shetland we don't have buses every ten minutes as they do in the central belt, we don't have undergrounds as they do in the central belt, we don't have trains! Any independent Shetland would make the essential practice of driving a lot cheaper with a much lower rate of tax if any! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toothlesstammy Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 I am of the strong opinion that if one pence is added to the price of fuel in towns this would enable the price of fuel in Shetland to be below the £1.00 mark. I have based this on the consumption used by buses, taxis and vehicles used twice a day on short school runs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KING OF AUSTRALIA Posted December 9, 2007 Report Share Posted December 9, 2007 over here in Melbourne the price of fuel has gone up to $1.39 per litre(60p) and people are complaining.i tell them about shetlands fuel prices and shock them!!when i first came here petrol was at $1 per litre........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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