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Cars can run on chip-pan power



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REGARDING the article on the G-Wiz electric car ('G-Wiz – there's nowhere to plug in Scotland's only electric car', July 27), it's nice to see other people are fighting back against the tide of oil company greed.

My own strategy in this campaign is to convert a diesel vehicle (a VW Golf Mk3) to run on plain old filtered oil, not bio-diesel.

The G-Wiz being electric still has to use some kind of power to charge up, whereas a car fuelled by waste vegetable oil (WVO) not only means you run for free, but it keeps waste out of land fills, saves chippies and burger outlets paying to have it removed, and it is, after all, renewable.

I'm not sure if I have Scotland's only WVO fuelled car, but so far I haven't come across any others north of the border. How expensive does diesel have to get before we canny Scots get a grip and start running for free?

Derek McRiner, by e-mail





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  • Last Updated: 02 August 2008 9:01 PM
  • Source: Scotland On Sunday
  • Location: Scotland
 
1

truthsleuth,

03/08/2008 01:04:29
I have heard AS (as in SNP) is asking for a cut in the taxation of chip shops and has set up a Department for Fish and Chip Shops which the SNP will subsidise.
2

Itchy,

03/08/2008 10:36:08
"it's nice to see other people are fighting back against the tide of oil company greed"

How about fighting back against the tide of state greed, you idiot.

The state is the villain in this affair and not oil companies.
3

Hugo of Garven,

03/08/2008 15:46:50
#2 Itchy

Do you really expect to convert Derek McRiner by calling him an idiot?

 

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