On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 22:17:42 +0000 (UTC), spitfire2
wrote:

For corn or sunflower oil - ask the French - they grow millions of acres of the
plants for cooking oil. I think plenty use it in their cars, as most of France
uses diesel, not petrol in cars. They don't tax it like we do

There have been reports in the press and on TV of folk in South Wales using
waste cooking oil mixed with their diesel. It was found out by the exhaust
smell! The tax authorities are NOT amused, and there was talk of the people
being prosecuted for tax evasion..

Yea, why does gas cost $4/gal in England? It ain't because their
crude oil costs are higher. Walked into a shop in Ireland once
looking for a NiMH charger, my 60Hz unit fried on the stepped down
50Hz power. Got into a huge discussion about the "value added" tax
after I was shocked at how high it was. I said to him, "You know
that's why America started the revolution". He ended up not charging
me any tax. I came away with the feeling that there's a lot of that
going around.

John

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