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Default Electric cars - running costs.

In article ,
bert wrote:
Consequently what is supposed to happen is that on sale of fuel to a
pleasure boat the supplier collects full duty even though the diesel
is red for what is intended for propulsion and the purchaser self
declares on an official form how much they use for non propulsion
purposes and the supplier takes the lesser amount for what has been
declared.


A fine example of EU red tape.


You don't understand the principle of a fuel being used purely for
pleasure purposes attracting duty, then?

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