"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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BartC wrote
Rod Speed wrote

There just arent enough cars in britain that are diesel powered to
produce a
shortage of cooking oil if some of them started using cooking oil in
their cars.

I get through about 1 litre of cooking oil per year.

And hordes of commercial operations use a hell of a lot more than that.

For food products? If ultimately they will be consumed by individuals, the
per capita consumption won't be hugely more than mine. (And anyone getting
through nearly 3 litres a day, the amount I use in my car, will probably be
dead before the year is out.)

But use about 1000 litres of diesel.

And **** all who use anything like that will bother with cooking oil from
the supermarket instead.

Other people would have a smaller ratio, but even so I can see the demand
for cooking oil growing by easily 100 times, if everyone who drives a
diesel (40% of us) used it for fuel.

But everyone who drives a diesel isnt going to bother.

You don't think that would generate a shortage?

Nope, essentially because bugger all will bother to fart around
with oil from the supermarket when its so much more convenient
to just use the bowser at the service station etc instead when you
save **** all like you do currently.

I was talking about if the price was still 50p/litre. And there must be
places where you can buy it in larger quantities (for the commercial use you
mentioned for example).

And all it takes is one person filling his tank with the stuff, to
temporarily clear the shelves of one supermarket. (Someone buying 50 bottles
of cooking oil might be a bit suspicious though.)

It really wouldn't take much to generate a shortage.

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Bartc