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finding a specific biodiesel supplier

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I cant find the supplier link i got the other day for a biodiesel stockist, who delivered nationally for free in large 250 litre drums
It worked out about 74p a litre, a friend at works interested in my new bio ways and wants some for his 206 hdi

Can anyone think who it may be?
There front page shows some blue barrels and a yard at the top where it's stored, with their logo over the top.

Failing that a sub 80p who delivers would be great. so far im seeing 99p stockists who think they're doing everyone a good deal when in fact that's stil ltoo high in my mind (though better than £1.10)!


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Why not mix a few litres of cooking oil with your diesel? you wont need to add much to drop the ave price below 99P !!!!

My ZX is on approx 85% Diesel at the moment, but it will be back on 90% cooking oil by mid May. :D
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Anyone?
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try posting on this site....someone here is bound to know

http://www.vegetableoildiesel.co.uk/forum/index.php
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weety wrote:try posting on this site....someone here is bound to know

http://www.vegetableoildiesel.co.uk/forum/index.php
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I go through about 120 litres of veg oil per week. I do it on special order from Tesco.
Go to customer services and they will sort out for you.

You need to order Pura Veg Oil in 1 Ltr bottles. I know its a real pain with the small bottles but you will be paying 56p per litre compared with the 75p per litre that they charge for the larger containers.

Its the only product I know where the unit price goes up for larger quantities and is clearly just another scam designed to hit the car drivers. Funny that the price shot up when the Simplification of Biodiesel Regs came in last June.

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Post by MikeT »

Stuart, I had an idea of going on to Tesco's website, ordering 100 bottles and having it deliverd for an extra few quid :lol:

I agree, it's obvious they fixed the oil prices due to higher demand and as soon as one did it, the rest followed suit - that's the real policy of their BS "price-check" philosophy. :evil:
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You can do that Mike but they might phone you if they havent got stocks.

It wont last at that price. Occasionally they do let me down as supplier stocks are low.

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Hoping your all recycling the bottles :lol:
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Your not one of these people who actually believe that all this environmental nonsense is to save the planet are you ???

Its all about making money and thats it.

I deliberately put all my waste bottles in a skip or my bin out of principle. I pay enough in council tax for them to sort my rubbish if they want to.

Oh, and while I'm on about it - This latest tosh from the supermarkets about carrier bags - Its all about them making more money by not supplying any. Since all thats kicked off I deliberately use twice as many as before :evil:
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I have to use the recycling bin for my veg oil bottles as it soon fills up the normal black bin :D
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Spot on - Only recycling when it suits you is to be commended. :D
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MikeT wrote:Stuart, I had an idea of going on to Tesco's website, ordering 100 bottles and having it deliverd for an extra few quid :lol:

I agree, it's obvious they fixed the oil prices due to higher demand and as soon as one did it, the rest followed suit - that's the real policy of their BS "price-check" philosophy. :evil:
If you order a SIM-card at the same time they deliver free. You can return the cards and exchange them for goods.
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MikeT wrote:I agree, it's obvious they fixed the oil prices due to higher demand and as soon as one did it, the rest followed suit - that's the real policy of their BS "price-check" philosophy. :evil:
Thats market forces in action I'm afraid. Farmers only planted a limited amount of oil crops this season then demand went up and so did the price. The farmers won't be able to respond to the increased demand until the next growing season, presumably the supermarkets will be negotiating contracts and prices for the next crop. If vegetable oil prices don't come down then or in the few seasons, you can can complain about price fixing.
stuartadair wrote:Your not one of these people who actually believe that all this environmental nonsense is to save the planet are you ???

Its all about making money and thats it.

I deliberately put all my waste bottles in a skip or my bin out of principle. I pay enough in council tax for them to sort my rubbish if they want to.

Oh, and while I'm on about it - This latest tosh from the supermarkets about carrier bags - Its all about them making more money by not supplying any. Since all thats kicked off I deliberately use twice as many as before :evil:
That is a very irresponsible attitude indeed. I understand perfectly well that "the environment" and "global warming" are used as an excuse for focusing taxation on certain things in the same way that "the rich can afford to pay more tax" is used as an excuse. I also understand that councils are generally run inefficiently, if their costs for landfill go up they will put taxes up instead of trying to be efficient about reducing their landfill requirement by sorting the rubbish themselves. The logical outcome of you putting your plastic bottles in the rubbish rather than the recycle bin is that you'll pay more for your plastic bottles (since they don't get recycled more oil is used to make more plastic for more plastic bottles) and the local council will use it as an excuse to punish you financially, that is of course ignoring the environmental impact of landfill and oil exploration etc...

Speaking personally, I like the idea of making it difficult for government to blatantly use things as an excuse to justify a certain course of action. If I were cynical I might say that Tony Blair only became passionate about climate change because the taxation opportunity was explained to him.
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I also understand that councils are generally run inefficiently, if their costs for landfill go up they will put taxes up instead of trying to be efficient about reducing their landfill requirement by sorting the rubbish themselves. The logical outcome of you putting your plastic bottles in the rubbish rather than the recycle bin is that you'll pay more for your plastic bottles (since they don't get recycled more oil is used to make more plastic for more plastic bottles) and the local council will use it as an excuse to punish you financially, that is of course ignoring the environmental impact of landfill and oil exploration etc...
I'll go along with this hypothesis. Our local council introduced recycling a while back and reported in the first year that after they had paid for the extra vehicles and manpower to collect the items to be recycled, they had saved £1.3M. Which would have otherwise been added to the council tax bill.
I imagine that they have then wasted it on some other hairbrained scheme but that is what councils do, isn't it :)
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