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On 30/10/2017 10:45, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
I dunno about petrol for a boat, as they are going to be pretty rare, other than a small outboard, etc. Others will fill up at a marine filling station - not on the M1. And your car might get rather soggy is you tried to use that. Diesel is called red or white. One is taxed for road vehicles. the other not. Petrol for a boat is road petrol. Diesel for a boat can be red diesel. Sometimes... the law is complex. Andy |
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bert wrote: In article , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes In article , charles wrote: My French 4x4 hybrid estate car saves me £130 every month compared to the Audi A4 Allroad it replaced and does everything the Allroad did! Including 500ish miles on a single refueling? If it's a hybrid, depends on the size of the fuel tank. You don't say. You've Googled to find out what a hybrid is? Did you understand it? -- *I took an IQ test and the results were negative. Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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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? -- *You're never too old to learn something stupid. Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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Vir Campestris wrote: On 30/10/2017 10:45, Dave Plowman (News) wrote: I dunno about petrol for a boat, as they are going to be pretty rare, other than a small outboard, etc. Others will fill up at a marine filling station - not on the M1. And your car might get rather soggy is you tried to use that. Diesel is called red or white. One is taxed for road vehicles. the other not. Petrol for a boat is road petrol. Diesel for a boat can be red diesel. Sometimes... the law is complex. Quite. When the decision was made to have two types of diesel, it may not have been anticipated how much pleasure boating with diesels there would be. -- *When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane * Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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On 01/11/2017 10:36, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article , Vir Campestris wrote: On 30/10/2017 10:45, Dave Plowman (News) wrote: I dunno about petrol for a boat, as they are going to be pretty rare, other than a small outboard, etc. Others will fill up at a marine filling station - not on the M1. And your car might get rather soggy is you tried to use that. Diesel is called red or white. One is taxed for road vehicles. the other not. Petrol for a boat is road petrol. Diesel for a boat can be red diesel. Sometimes... the law is complex. Quite. When the decision was made to have two types of diesel, it may not have been anticipated how much pleasure boating with diesels there would be. If fuel duty is to pay for roads, why should boats pay for them? -- Max Demian |
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In article , Max Demian
wrote: On 01/11/2017 10:36, Dave Plowman (News) wrote: In article , Vir Campestris wrote: On 30/10/2017 10:45, Dave Plowman (News) wrote: I dunno about petrol for a boat, as they are going to be pretty rare, other than a small outboard, etc. Others will fill up at a marine filling station - not on the M1. And your car might get rather soggy is you tried to use that. Diesel is called red or white. One is taxed for road vehicles. the other not. Petrol for a boat is road petrol. Diesel for a boat can be red diesel. Sometimes... the law is complex. Quite. When the decision was made to have two types of diesel, it may not have been anticipated how much pleasure boating with diesels there would be. If fuel duty is to pay for roads, why should boats pay for them? I feel the same way when I buy fuel for my lawnmower. -- from KT24 in Surrey, England |
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On Wednesday, November 1, 2017 at 11:23:04 AM UTC, Max Demian wrote:
On 01/11/2017 10:36, Dave Plowman (News) wrote: In article , Vir Campestris wrote: On 30/10/2017 10:45, Dave Plowman (News) wrote: I dunno about petrol for a boat, as they are going to be pretty rare, other than a small outboard, etc. Others will fill up at a marine filling station - not on the M1. And your car might get rather soggy is you tried to use that. Diesel is called red or white. One is taxed for road vehicles. the other not. Petrol for a boat is road petrol. Diesel for a boat can be red diesel. Sometimes... the law is complex. Quite. When the decision was made to have two types of diesel, it may not have been anticipated how much pleasure boating with diesels there would be. If fuel duty is to pay for roads, why should boats pay for them? -- Max Demian Up until recently it was permissible to use red/green diesel in boats.The EU put a stop to that. In Ireland they expect you to keep a total of your annual duty free purchases and send a check for the tax to the revenue. Right. |
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Max Demian wrote: On 01/11/2017 10:36, Dave Plowman (News) wrote: In article , Vir Campestris wrote: On 30/10/2017 10:45, Dave Plowman (News) wrote: I dunno about petrol for a boat, as they are going to be pretty rare, other than a small outboard, etc. Others will fill up at a marine filling station - not on the M1. And your car might get rather soggy is you tried to use that. Diesel is called red or white. One is taxed for road vehicles. the other not. Petrol for a boat is road petrol. Diesel for a boat can be red diesel. Sometimes... the law is complex. Quite. When the decision was made to have two types of diesel, it may not have been anticipated how much pleasure boating with diesels there would be. If fuel duty is to pay for roads, why should boats pay for them? Can you give an example of any ring fenced tax? The TV licence would be the closest one. Does the duty on alcohol all get spent on making pubs nicer? ;-) -- *Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have * Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 11:23:01 +0000, Max Demian
wrote: If fuel duty is to pay for roads, why should boats pay for them? If fuel duty and road tax revenues were spent on roads they would indeed be paved with gold. Now general revenue is going to have start subsidising the road user as people go electric. Next thing is that we'll have to stop heating our water and using airconditioners to make up for the power shortfall. -- AnthonyL |
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On 02/11/2017 12:28, AnthonyL wrote:
On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 11:23:01 +0000, Max Demian wrote: If fuel duty is to pay for roads, why should boats pay for them? If fuel duty and road tax revenues were spent on roads they would indeed be paved with gold. Now general revenue is going to have start subsidising the road user as people go electric. Next thing is that we'll have to stop heating our water and using airconditioners to make up for the power shortfall. There is more than enough spare grid capacity overnight and weekends to recharge every vehicle an average of 2 times per week. |
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On 02/11/2017 15:36, Andy Bennet wrote:
On 02/11/2017 12:28, AnthonyL wrote: On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 11:23:01 +0000, Max Demian wrote: If fuel duty is to pay for roads, why should boats pay for them? If fuel duty and road tax revenues were spent on roads they would indeed be paved with gold. Now general revenue is going to have start subsidising the road user as people go electric. Next thing is that we'll have to stop heating our water and using airconditioners to make up for the power shortfall. There is more than enough spare grid capacity overnight and weekends to recharge every vehicle an average of 2 times per week. Or to put it another way - nowhere near enough capacity. (and that is before you start moving significant parts of the transport and heating load onto the electrical system) -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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Andy Bennet wrote: On 02/11/2017 12:28, AnthonyL wrote: On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 11:23:01 +0000, Max Demian wrote: If fuel duty is to pay for roads, why should boats pay for them? If fuel duty and road tax revenues were spent on roads they would indeed be paved with gold. Now general revenue is going to have start subsidising the road user as people go electric. Next thing is that we'll have to stop heating our water and using airconditioners to make up for the power shortfall. There is more than enough spare grid capacity overnight and weekends to recharge every vehicle an average of 2 times per week. the Grid might stand it, but will the local ditribution network? -- from KT24 in Surrey, England |
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In article , "Dave Plowman (News)"
writes In article , bert wrote: In article , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes In article , charles wrote: My French 4x4 hybrid estate car saves me £130 every month compared to the Audi A4 Allroad it replaced and does everything the Allroad did! Including 500ish miles on a single refueling? If it's a hybrid, depends on the size of the fuel tank. You don't say. You've Googled to find out what a hybrid is? Did you understand it? I understand you are a total dick and expert only at stating the bleeding obvious. -- bert |
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Demian writes On 01/11/2017 10:36, Dave Plowman (News) wrote: In article , Vir Campestris wrote: On 30/10/2017 10:45, Dave Plowman (News) wrote: I dunno about petrol for a boat, as they are going to be pretty rare, other than a small outboard, etc. Others will fill up at a marine filling station - not on the M1. And your car might get rather soggy is you tried to use that. Diesel is called red or white. One is taxed for road vehicles. the other not. Petrol for a boat is road petrol. Diesel for a boat can be red diesel. Sometimes... the law is complex. Quite. When the decision was made to have two types of diesel, it may not have been anticipated how much pleasure boating with diesels there would be. If fuel duty is to pay for roads, why should boats pay for them? Because some petty bureaucrat in Brussels saw at as boats getting away with something and changed the usage definition to "transportation" That is their only raison d'être. After Brexit we can allow boats to use red diesel if we wish. -- bert |
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Bennet writes On 02/11/2017 12:28, AnthonyL wrote: On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 11:23:01 +0000, Max Demian wrote: If fuel duty is to pay for roads, why should boats pay for them? If fuel duty and road tax revenues were spent on roads they would indeed be paved with gold. Now general revenue is going to have start subsidising the road user as people go electric. Next thing is that we'll have to stop heating our water and using airconditioners to make up for the power shortfall. There is more than enough spare grid capacity overnight and weekends to recharge every vehicle an average of 2 times per week. So how will you stop people charging a) in the evenings b) every evening? -- bert |
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In article , "Dave Plowman (News)"
writes 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? You obviously don't understand the effect and impracticality of trivial red tape. -- bert |
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On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 20:02:45 +0000, bert wrote:
Petrol for a boat is road petrol. Diesel for a boat can be red diesel. Sometimes... the law is complex. Quite. When the decision was made to have two types of diesel, it may not have been anticipated how much pleasure boating with diesels there would be. If fuel duty is to pay for roads, why should boats pay for them? Because some petty bureaucrat in Brussels saw at as boats getting away with something and changed the usage definition to "transportation" That is their only raison d'être. After Brexit we can allow boats to use red diesel if we wish. Those who use boats for commercial uses can still use fuel at the lower rate. 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 |
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On Friday, 3 November 2017 20:07:55 UTC, bert wrote:
In article , Andy Bennet writes On 02/11/2017 12:28, AnthonyL wrote: On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 11:23:01 +0000, Max Demian wrote: If fuel duty is to pay for roads, why should boats pay for them? If fuel duty and road tax revenues were spent on roads they would indeed be paved with gold. Now general revenue is going to have start subsidising the road user as people go electric. Next thing is that we'll have to stop heating our water and using airconditioners to make up for the power shortfall. There is more than enough spare grid capacity overnight and weekends to recharge every vehicle an average of 2 times per week. So how will you stop people charging a) in the evenings b) every evening? -- bert Money and smart meters. |
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On Sat, 4 Nov 2017 01:13:54 +0000, Steve Walker
wrote: On 03/11/2017 20:42, wrote: If fuel duty is to pay for roads, why should boats pay for them? 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. You can use red diesel in your Landrover, as long as you do not drive on public highways - and that includes green lanes, as they are still designated as such. A green lane doesn't have doesn't have any legal definition as such , it is just a descriptive name for a of type track that is unmetalled. Some are not public highways, others are many having been re designated in recent times to restrict access to vehicles but there are still quite a number that are fully accessible. You need to be fully legal as regards insurance, MOT if the vehicle requires one and Ironically road tax, I doubt you will get away with trying to claim that because such a road is unmetalled you can use red diesel. You can off-road around a private quarry or farmer's field to your heart's content on red diesel. Well.that is a bit of a statement of the obvious and if those who run off road experiences courses and have no need to drive the vehicles off site it would save a few bob but I also mentioned car rallying and there cannot be that many places in the UK where you could hold a car rally without traversing public roads,not that many rally cars will be diesel anyway though if you include road runs which are a pleasure trip exhibiting interesting vehicles some will be. A motoring hobby that has grown in recent years is the weekend tractor run as it is relatively cheap to get hold of and maintain an interesting old piece of machinery and go off in convoy with others hindering the journey to the garden centre for 1000's Some belong to people who keep them in a suburban semi others are an old "pet" on a farm that grandad bought and is still used for small jobs rather than fire up the mew bungalow sized John Deere. HMRC have noticed this new hobby and have warned a few people that driving to a pub on your tractor isn't actually an agricultural purpose and that using red diesel may result in prosecution. No problem for the bloke in the semi to comply but the farm pet may still be in use for agriculture most of the time. G.Harman |
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harry writes On Friday, 3 November 2017 20:07:55 UTC, bert wrote: In article , Andy Bennet writes On 02/11/2017 12:28, AnthonyL wrote: On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 11:23:01 +0000, Max Demian wrote: If fuel duty is to pay for roads, why should boats pay for them? If fuel duty and road tax revenues were spent on roads they would indeed be paved with gold. Now general revenue is going to have start subsidising the road user as people go electric. Next thing is that we'll have to stop heating our water and using airconditioners to make up for the power shortfall. There is more than enough spare grid capacity overnight and weekends to recharge every vehicle an average of 2 times per week. So how will you stop people charging a) in the evenings b) every evening? -- bert Money and smart meters. Really? -- bert |
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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? -- *Work is for people who don't know how to fish. Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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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. |
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dennis@home wrote: 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. A gin palace is essential transport? -- *Failure is not an option. It's bundled with your software. Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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On Saturday, 4 November 2017 19:56:52 UTC, bert wrote:
In article , harry writes On Friday, 3 November 2017 20:07:55 UTC, bert wrote: In article , Andy Bennet writes On 02/11/2017 12:28, AnthonyL wrote: On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 11:23:01 +0000, Max Demian wrote: If fuel duty is to pay for roads, why should boats pay for them? If fuel duty and road tax revenues were spent on roads they would indeed be paved with gold. Now general revenue is going to have start subsidising the road user as people go electric. Next thing is that we'll have to stop heating our water and using airconditioners to make up for the power shortfall. There is more than enough spare grid capacity overnight and weekends to recharge every vehicle an average of 2 times per week. So how will you stop people charging a) in the evenings b) every evening? -- bert Money and smart meters. Really? -- bert That is their ultimate purpose. |
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