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In the UK, drivers using SVO/PPO have in the past been prosecuted for failure to pay duty to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. The rate of taxation on SVO was originally set at a reduced rate of 27.1p per litre, but in late 2005, HMRC started to enforce the full diesel excise rate of 47.2p per litre.
In Europe, straight vegetable oil (SVO) costs 150 pence/litre at most supermarkets [11] and somewhat less when bought in bulk direct from the manufacturers whereas diesel costs at least 130 pence per litre (in the UK [12]) to well over that (depends on the year, 1.4 euro is the current market price in central Europe). [13]
Under favourable economic conditions and strong improvements in policy support, NNFCC projections suggest advanced biofuels could meet up to 4.3 per cent of the UK's transport fuel by 2020 and save 3.2 million tonnes of CO 2 each year, equivalent to taking nearly a million cars off the road. [27]
Diesel prices have reached a record high of more than 180p per litre, new figures show. Data firm Experian Catalist said the average price per litre on Sunday was 180.3p per litre.
Drivers have been hit by the average cost of a litre of petrol reaching a record of nearly £1.60. Figures from data firm Experian Catalist show UK forecourts sold the fuel at an average price of ...
The blending target for biodiesel for the whole country is 5% or 3.96 million liters per day of B100. The initial intention was to increase by 10% or 8.50 million liters per day in 2012, but for the same reasons mentioned above, the 2011 target was revised and slashed to 3.02 million liters per day of B100.
Average petrol and diesel prices have risen by 10p per litre so far this year, new figures show. The RAC said the average price of a litre of petrol increased by 3p to 150.0p in April alone.
Today, multi-feedstock biodiesel facilities are producing high quality animal-fat based biodiesel. [ 96 ] [ 97 ] Currently, a 5-million dollar plant is being built in the US, with the intent of producing 11.4 million litres (3 million gallons) biodiesel from some of the estimated 1 billion kg (2.2 billion pounds) of chicken fat [ 98 ] produced ...