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Originally Posted by Captain Echidna  Probably the only time you would get picked up would be if you started selling it! |
That's true mate but isn't it a pain in the butt that we are forced to do things under the radar? Surely it would be much better to encourage the production of fuel from ethanol or/and biodiesel by the little blokes...such as ourselves...(so long as things are done safely) after all, I don't believe to many Aussies would go making their own fuel, most people would put that in the to hard basket and keep buying their fuel from fuel stations...so the ATO would loose very little on fuel taxes, on the other hand, when enough people had proven it safe to use ethanol or/and biodiesel as fuel, then the big oil companies may start production of ethanol and biodiesel at a price we can all aford.
On my last trip to Queensland late last year, on the outward bound trip and the homeward bound trip, I fueled-up with biodiesel in NSW, the cost of biodiesel in NSW was about 1.3c per litre less than petrodiesel! When I enquired from the FS owner how bio' was selling, I was told there was little demand! At a price difference of 1.3c per litre it's no wonder I was only the second customer for biodiesel that fuel station had had for the whole week! The other thing about that NSW FS, they advertised their biodiesel as...Diesel! But clearly anyone with a little expierence could tell this was not your everyday diesel! I told them if I was selling the biodiesel I would advertise it as BIODIESEL! Helping save your environment! But then what do I know!
Bill