Interesting article on how Customs are tackling fuel smugglers who are removing the red dye from diesel. (Today's Daily Telegraph).
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/20...l
Sounds as if you could do far more harm to your engine than the money that might be saved.
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Roger
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Customs has been charged by the Chancellor to limit the market share in illicit fuel to no more than 2 per cent in England, Wales and Scotland.
2 per cent is an awfull lot of fuel when you think of it.
5p a liter for farmers is very very cheap. No wonder folk are tempted.
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How are they getting it for 5p a litre? We'd pay 30p if there was no tax on it. Are the government subsidising red diesel?
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Misprint, round here Red diesel sells for around 55p/litre.
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If Gordon Brown left these shores for Northern Ireland, let alone Europe, he would understand the folly of huge differences in tax and duty rates across open, unpoliced land borders.
I know people in France who do their shopping in Germany (20 minutes away by car) becuase it is so much cheaper. Why not do the same with fuel. We all remember the farm that straddled the Irish border that was a haven for smuggling all sorts of things.
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Espada III - well if you have a family and need a Lamborghini, what else do you drive?
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