On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:34:16 +0000 (UTC), Ed Sirett wrote:

Diesel and kerosene are essentially the same but with different tax
rates.

Disagree!

Kerosene, light oil, lamp oil, jet fuel, heating paraffin, and 28sec
heating oil are sort of the same thing.

Diesel, heavy oil, 35sec heating oil are much the same thing.

Agreed, more or less.

The stuff which is untaxed is dyed red. It may not be used to power
vehicles on public roads.

It is taxed red diesel carries 10p(ish) of duty plus VAT at 17.5%.

28sec oil used for domestic heating has not duty and VAT at 5%. It is dyed
yellow and has hidden markers as well just like red.

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Cheers
Dave.