Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:28:02 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

At 45.1p a unit, I can assure you there would be.

There is 9.7 KWh per liter of diesel. At say 25% efficiency that will
generate 2.425 units of electricity.

That's 109p of income per liter. Agricultural diesel/heating oil is a
lot less than that. About 50p a litre

50p/l for 28sec heating oil? I wish.

The last lot I bought (4th March) was 56.52p/l ex VAT. Red will be
about 10p/l more than that due to the duty. And of course will
attract VAT at 20% not 5% as for domestic heating oil.

The heating oil price tracking sites have had 28sec oil at 60p/l for
a week or so now. So I reckon red will be 80p+/l which fits with
about 50p/l less than pump diesel.

Its still profitable.