CoverGirl Car Insurance guide to running your car on veggie oil

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Why should you run your car on vegetable oil?
Vegetable oil is renewable and therefore does not contribute to global warming. It has cleaner emissions than other oil and is better for your car, making your engine run smoother. Vegetable oil also has less sulphur so creates less sulphur dioxide which can create childhood asthma. It is possible to run your car on vegetable oil and in fact Rudolf Diesel’s first engines were built to run on peanut oil. It is also much cheaper to run your car on vegetable oil.

An ordinary diesel engine cannot run on 100% vegetable oil without a conversion as pure vegetable oil is too thick to run through the fuel pump and injectors. The best way to save time and money and use vegetable oil is to just mix it with diesel. You can do this by just putting them both into the fuel tank. Another alternative is to make or buy biodiesel. To find out more about biodiesel see: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html and http://www.greenfuels.co.uk/

How much vegetable oil should you use? Well, start with a light blend of the two, adding a little of the veggie oil into a tank of diesel. If you hear the car spluttering you know you’ve added too much and should add more diesel. A 10% blend of oil and diesel will reduce the harmful emissions and does not impact on the way your car runs. You can go a couple of steps further and add as much as 50% vegetable oil to your engine. This is only suitable for the summer months as you may struggle to start the car in winter.

It is not illegal to run your car on vegetable oil in the UK but you must pay duty on it. To do this you need to:

Register with Customs and Excise
Keep your receipts
Fill in a monthly tax return

Follow this link to find out how to pay your duty http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/

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