Sourcing product

I get regularly asked "but where can I get waste vegetable oil (WVO) from?" The answer is from lots of places and the price will vary. It varies from nil to about 60 cents (30p) per litre. Now if you are making Biodiesel at home and produce less than 2,500 litres a year and live in the island called UK you can make it TAX FREE! Yep our Gov. has decided to let all you good people have a years worth of fuel fro free.



So it's even more important to be able to source low cost or free WVO. That way you can spend more money on you and less on transport costs!



Where to start? Making Biodiesel is all about the OIL. Quite simply, no oil - no fuel! As an aside, I suppose, with the tax free benefits it is also worth considering NEW vegetable oil at a push, but see paragraph 2 above. No, if you are tempted to make Biodiesel at home you need to first of all establish a source of WVO.



This easy. Just go into your local pub, restaurant, hotel, chippy, fast food outlet, school, college or similar institution that fries food (most of them, right?) - and here's what you do. You ask if you can take away their nasty used up oil. Simple as that! Beware though, once you get an agreement to take it away, you have to take it away, regularly - like every week. To them it is just a waste product to be disposed of.



Now if you've been wondering if people really are making Biodiesel at home, here is a way of testing the water. When you ask if you can have the WVO for free, if they say no. Ask why? If the answer is that their supplier is paying them to take it away you know that making Biodiesel is really catching on, in your area anyway. Making Biodiesel is really starting to become established. What I really like about this is that it is largely staying local. What I mean is that a lot of people are making Biodiesel at home from re-cycling local WVO. This means - local fuel for local people! More importantly perhaps it is re-cycling a waste product that normally goes to land fill. This in itself is a very good thing and an extra plus. So lots and lots of local communities are benefiting from this new fuel phenomenon. Everybody wins don't they? Where is the downside here??

Having said that I am sure there must be some of you reading this who will now proceed to tell me about the downsides. If so, please make it constructive and not just a personal rant - OK? have we got a deal?

Other sources of WVO? Well one of the best is eBay of course. Over the last year there has been a steady rise in the number and variety of items listed under Biodiesel - take a look. Not only chemicals for the catalyst but hardware, small systems and importantly WVO and new oil.
Next rant will be about eBay.

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