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morrisons biodiesel
Saffy:
--- Quote from: topless matt on August 08, 2009, 11:38:37 ---
--- Quote ---I work at British Sugar in Norfolk, near Downham Market, and they've recently completed a multi million pound bio-ethanol plant that produces 100% pure ethanol from sugar beet. That gets blended into all petrol and diesel @ around 5% at the refinaries, to meet government regulations.
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Wouldnt buy diesel with ethanol in it, it is very VERY bad for diesels and can degrade the seals very quickly and knacker the injectors.
It is only the modern new landrover engines that are not supposed to be run on bio diesel because they have not been round long enough to perform enough testing on them.
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I didn't think you had a choice, isn't the case that ALL fuel at the pump is now to contain 5% non fossil fuel additive.
landroverkeith:
Ive used the morrisons stuff a couple of times cant say I noticed any differance to normal derv
Llanigraham:
--- Quote from: topless matt on August 08, 2009, 11:38:37 ---
--- Quote ---I work at British Sugar in Norfolk, near Downham Market, and they've recently completed a multi million pound bio-ethanol plant that produces 100% pure ethanol from sugar beet. That gets blended into all petrol and diesel @ around 5% at the refinaries, to meet government regulations.
--- End quote ---
Wouldnt buy diesel with ethanol in it, it is very VERY bad for diesels and can degrade the seals very quickly and knacker the injectors.
It is only the modern new landrover engines that are not supposed to be run on bio diesel because they have not been round long enough to perform enough testing on them.
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Ethanol is NOT being put into diesel, only petrol.
Diesel is having 5% bio diesel, mostly from rape seed, added.
marky:
I may have got that a bit wrong. :oops:
I don't work in that part of the site (maybe it's a good job I don't!)
Gordo:
--- Quote from: Tanglefoot on August 07, 2009, 21:14:26 ---I don't blame them going that route but with the drive off's so appealing because many of the blood stupid big name garages have a policy of not pressing charges :rolleyes: Esso forecourt in Magor Services ,Wales in summer time could have 3 or 4 drive offs per day, in the 3 years my mrs worked their part time during her student years they only once was followed up and caught one, hardly any went as far as being reported to police.
Thing with these card only forecourt, when I seen one in Bristol there wasn't any staff or anything.... what happens in an emergency like a car fire? Normal garages the staff are trained in such things like turning off the pumps.
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There's an emergency call point, and the pumps can be shut down remotely.
On the subject of car fires, driving back from Ipswich yesterday along the A14 I stopped for fuel and while I was there someone decided that a petrol station was the ideal place to take their car, that was threatening to go up in flames, to seek assistance :shock: :roll: :doh:
And on the subject of the new 5% bio-diesel standard, according to the figures I've seen this 5% means that the crop grown to produce it will have absorbed the same amount of CO² as is produced when driving, making it "carbon neutral". So our road tax should be reduced because we're no longer environmentally unfriendly. :-k
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