How would VW know if you ran BD in your bug? As soon as you had any trouble couldn't you switch back to DD and run that for a tank or two until you took it to the dealer.
Jack --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From a letter from the US: > > >I'm in the midst of acquiring > >a VW Beetle turbodiesel, but was disappointed to learn that VW won't honor > >the warranty if biodiesel is used, altho' Germany does. The issue is that > >Germany uses rapeseed-based fuel, and most of the supplied biodiesel here is > >made with soybean oil. > > Clash of standards - the issue wouldn't be, would it, that Europe's > biodiesel standards have some specs that include rapeseed oil but > exclude soybean oil, for no apparent reason, other than that perhaps > Europe has a huge surplus of rapeseed oil, just as the US has a huge > surplus of soybean oil? > > Surely the only valid issue is to promote maximum use of renewable, > carbon-neutral biofuels. Or am I being naive? > > Best > > Keith Addison > Journey to Forever > Handmade Projects > Tokyo > http://journeytoforever.org/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE credit report with a FREE CreditCheck Monitoring Service trial http://us.click.yahoo.com/ACHqaB/bQ8CAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/