newshound wrote:
On 04/03/2020 12:16, Roger Hayter wrote:
Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:
On 04/03/2020 11:22, newshound wrote:
On 04/03/2020 11:05, Dave Liquorice wrote:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51731757
"Rishi Sunak is set to announce in next week's budget that red diesel
- so-called because it is marked with a dye - will no longer attract
a lower fuel duty. It currently accounts for about 15% of total
diesel sales in the UK and costs the Treasury about £2.4bn a year in
revenue."
Red disel current attracts 11.1 p/l duty. "Road" diesel 57.7 p/l.
The reporting of these rumoured changes also hint that the freeze on
fuel duty may well end.
Think I might be filling the genset and paying a visit to the local
garage and to top up the jerry can and a 25 l drum or two...
Not just "**** Business", then. **** the farmers too.
why not?..
Indeed. Anyone (except billionaires) who voted for Boris because they
were told to be scared of Corbyn deserves all they get. I for one will
laugh at those queuing for foodbanks in Sunderland after voting for
Boris.
I was sort of assuming that dropping the lower duty meant it would
revert to road rates. I thought that on the whole ordinary farmers were
very anti-brexit.
They tend to be rather conservative small businessmen. Round here they
blame the EU (in the face of considerable evidence to the contrary) for
*re-wilding* proposals that they suspect would make farmers into nature
reserve wardens.
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Roger Hayter