Husband has just come back from the barber's, and informed me whilst he was waiting, he was reading the paper and we are apparently in for temperatures down to minus 18 degrees (celcius). Now he's really peed off, as he's just made a batch of biodiesel and fed it to my land rover, which he regularly pinches when it's bad weather (as Chuggaboom will always get you home, no matter what the weather throws at it). The only problem is the car doesn't like drinking biodiesel when it's cold, so he'll actually have to BUY some dinosaur juice to get it started.
It's funny, but when you have to buy fuel for your car, you realise how expensive it is! It makes me laugh when I get accused of owning a planet-destroying gas guzzler, it's almost old enough to vote, is fairly cheap to run, and stops waste veg oil going to landfill. On the downside, it can be cold and temperamental in the winter, and it is a bit noisy. If you've got a newish diesel car, please, please check your manual before putting bio in, as some folks that make it and sell it on don't wash it properly, and it can contain methanol which attacks your fuel pipes. Sorry for going off-topic, bit of a tree-hugging hippy at heart (even though I do drive an old landy!)
