On 05/11/2017 10:48, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Brian Reay wrote:
I don't see why the owner of a Sunseeker or similar large pleasure
vessel who is willing to spend a couple of million buying it and a
few thousand a year just berthing it should get cheap fuel to aid
their hobby when someone who can only afford to indulge in a bit of
car rallying or a bit of green laning in their Land Rover cannot.

G.Harman




How people spend their money is their business- provided it is legal. To
tax people who spend it on things on the basis they must be 'wealthy' is
the just envy.

Really? If you tax fuel used on a car so that even the poorest have to pay
for it, why should such fuel be tax free elsewhere?


Because a car is not considered to be essential, if it was they could
get rid of public transport.