Bio diesel or vegetable oil seems safe, efficent and green, why doesnt the goverment give it tax breaks?

Question

I understand there are tax breaks for LPG ,maybe Im wrong about the " greenes" of this fuel

Answer 1

The short answer: our administration is in bed with the crude-oil industry. The long answer: biodiesel can be easily produced in your backyard and vegetable oil is readily available. The production of biodiesel is a relatively simple chemical procedure requiring vegetable oil as an ingredient (if I remember it correctly) that produces glycerin as a byproduct (you can even find procedures for it online). In fact, many people already produce it in thei backyards. The problem is that, if a fuel became a cottage-industry endeavor, control would get away from the petroleum industry. If that was the case, how would would our administration be able to pocket the money? Oh, right, they would still have the weapon industry! Sarcasm aside, there are too many political interests at stake. Right now, many large oil companies such as BP are desperately trying to come up with a controllable solution to the oil problem, such as Hydrogen Fuel (don't get me wrong, it makes perfect environmental sense), which you can't produce in your backyard. In addition to the politics, there are also a few scientific concerns with biodiesel and vegetable oil. If everyone were to be using it, where would the raw-material be coming from? Then it becames an issue of land usage and the fuel needed to harvest it, etc.

Answer 2

The price of sugar cane has doubles in 18 months. Afforestation is taking place to grow it.

Corn prices are rising as more is taken to produce fuel. The corn used to make one tank full of fuel would feed a person for a whole year!

current Bio fuel is a sop to conservation and a cost to everyone who consumes food at the present time!!!

Perhaps when bio fuels can be produced from celulose it will become more viable. Meanwhile people may well starve because of it.

A simple statistic though - if Americans reduced the size of their cars to the same as the Europeans the whole problem of Global warming would be solved at a stroke!!!

The real answer lies in tax breaks for smaller cars with clean lean burn highly efficient engines.

Answer 3

sure with out question. organic sparkling vegeatble oil is filtered to at leasts as severe a wide-spread as diesel gas and also you've a gas filter out very actual outfitted perfect there contained in the engine bay ;-) Mr Diesel who invented the engine, first displayed it operating on peanut oil and designed it to run on low grade gas (for this reason the severe compression ratio). In cooler climes, the oil will partly solidify contained in the tank over evening if organic so in the course of the summer season run about seventy 5 - 100% vegetable oil and in iciness no better than 50%. Biomass is a growing to be form of being further to fuelpump diesel in Europe and could be contained in the united kingdom quickly. some engines (Pajero, fords) run a lot extra useful on a hefty does of veggie. never ever use olive oil or unfiltered, used oil as they are going to gum up the injectors. FILTERED used oil is high quality although; one guy even purely drove throughout the time of Europe on get well chip oil.

Answer 4

The world has thousands of trillions of dollars, and over a century, invested in using fossil fuels. A policy shift by the world's largest consumer country could send catastrophic economic shockwaves around the world. It's not as simple as just stamping a tax break on bio fuels (I wish it was). It could work for some smaller countries, which would have a much smaller world-wide impact if similar breaks are implemented.

Answer 5

The government wants to tax those ofus who work into oblivion! The main reason is that it isn't produced by the oil companies therefore no tax break. LPG is a greener product produced by the oil companies there fore it has a tax break.

Answer 6

Same reason why they've not pushed LPG even though other European countries have been using it for decades....they make a fortune on taxing petrol and therefore love people using it - no matter what they say to the contrary.

Answer 7

You must be a forever optimist this thieving government wouldn't give anybody the drippings of its nose, they understand the word take but the word give is beyond there intelligence, except when it appl;ys to themselves of course, then its first pig in the trough boys

Answer 8

By giving it tax breaks it would encourage more to use it. Supermarkets would complain due to shortage effecting customers wanting to use it for its more conventional purpose. There is better technologies like hydrogen technology around which the government does give tax breaks and incentives for.

Answer 9

Because legislators get great wads of money from the petroleum industry?

Answer 10

Anyone who drives is evil. I don't drive at all. Why don't I get a tax break?