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General Category => GENERAL CHAT => Topic started by: georgew on February 13, 2012, 01:54:29 PM

Title: 'illicit' fuel plants dismantled in Peterhead.
Post by: georgew on February 13, 2012, 01:54:29 PM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-17010792

Never was an area where the availability of the illicit fuel would go un-noticed for long.

george

PS,Whoever, it did take them a long time to spot that the 'Black fish' were being pumped out of the hold under the water line while the boats unloaded at the Quay. ;)

Title: Re: 'illicit' fuel plants dismantled in Peterhead.
Post by: ffourphantomfixer on February 13, 2012, 06:00:41 PM

Graeme Anderson, assistant director of HMRC specialist investigations, said: "Illegal bio-diesel sites and those involved are creating a cheap and unregulated supply that honest producers cannot compete with."

HONEST PRODUCERS. now that IS a joke.

roll on the bootleg fuel industry  ;D

Title: Re: 'illicit' fuel plants dismantled in Peterhead.
Post by: ffourphantomfixer on February 21, 2012, 06:20:06 PM

It turns out "they" found a way to get the red out of red diesel, must be cheap/easy as they were selling it for 80p a litre.

Title: Re: 'illicit' fuel plants dismantled in Peterhead.
Post by: Tomreade93 on February 21, 2012, 06:53:22 PM

If you leave it out in the sun in plastic containers the sun bleaches the red out of it  but I didn't say that...

Title: Re: 'illicit' fuel plants dismantled in Peterhead.
Post by: georgew on February 21, 2012, 07:22:29 PM

Fullers earth has been used for a long time to remove the red,
 it does not remove the chemical marker, and neither would sun bleaching.

george

Title: Re: 'illicit' fuel plants dismantled in Peterhead.
Post by: genem on February 21, 2012, 07:29:49 PM

....and much more conversation along these lines will make LR even more of a target for HMRC spot checks. :-(

They turned up at a farm I was staying on once and made a bee-line for both my LR. They were absolutely stunned to find both were petrol vehicles - a V8 90 and an ex MOD 109 FFR.

Title: Re: 'illicit' fuel plants dismantled in Peterhead.
Post by: Graeme on February 21, 2012, 07:40:55 PM

the only time i have been tested was when i had a 3.5 carb rangie
it must have been stolen red diesel red today is 70 pence per litre delivered   small amounts collected is 80 pence per litre