On Thursday, March 5, 2020 at 11:30:43 AM UTC, polygonum_on_google wrote:
On Wednesday, 4 March 2020 11:05:42 UTC, 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...

Be interesting how they handle cross-border issues. Like RoI's Green diesel.

Will NI people who are able cross to RoI to top up with Green?

Even if that is illegal, getting rid of Red would probably result in no, or almost no, HMRC/BF inspections and dipping.

Some time back the EU decreed that pleasure craft could no longer use 'red/green' diesel.Problem was all the suppliers on Ireland's inland waterways only ever supplied red/green so the customs agreed private boaters could continue using red/green but once a year should report to the customs the quantity used and pony up the difference in the two tax rates. Yea right like that's going to happen.

Incidentally red and green diesel can both be washed.