Hi John, What are you paying for your raw materials? When I was making biodiesel in Ireland two years ago methanol was €114 per 200 litres. This worked out at roughly 11c per litre of biodiesel produced. The duty payable per litre was 33c. I forget exactly what I paid for the sodium hydroxide but it was fairly small. If you get your waste oil for free, which I did, then your costs including heating, should be roughly 50c per litre. Given that it is now €1.08 per litre for dino diesel at the pumps that leaves it a very economical proposition. If you want to do something about the duty payable on biodiesel then respond to this:
*The Green Party has launched its Drop the Duty Postcard Campaign. Party Leader Trevor Sargent TD and Deputy Leader Cllr. Mary White are urging Minister Cowen to drop the excise duty levied on the biofuel industry in the forthcoming Budget. * *Postcards for our campaign are now available in the Green Party office. If you require some of the postcards to be sent to you please let us know asap. They can also be collected from the office during working hours.* *Please support this campaign. Regards Dermot * john owens wrote: > Hi Keith, > Do you by any chance know any thing about the bio diesel situation in > Ireland. I want to make bio diesel but the government seam to be > against it and want to charge a duty on it the same as mineral oil diesel. > I worked out some of the costs and it all ads up to about 90c per > liter with duty added. This is just for raw materials, I haven't taken > into account capital costs, repair costs or %loss and I'm sure there > would be other hidden costs and Licences etc etc. > I am now afraid to pursue this any further because I am unsure of what > way the government are going with it. Any advice. > John > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >[email protected] >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [email protected] http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
