RED DIESEL ALERT

[blackvelvet]

Charlton I had an E-mail from Rob Peake of the boat magazine and he said they do know about it as he has been e-mailing them.

So if farmers etc. are allowed to use red diesel( which is only red to say that it is exempt from tax) How could they stop the boats from using it??????? you can buy red diesel from some farmers anyhow.

Blackvelvet

[CJS]

White Diesel and Petrol in the UK is expevsive because 80% of the pump price goes to the Government as \"tax\". The point is, the government cant afford to lower the price of fuel cos\' they would be broke!!! And in any case if they did, the revenue has to come from somwhere. Beer, Fags, I dont smoke, and drink so little, \"a snif of the barmaids appron\" and I fall over.

Tax, now there is an option, a new tax band at 60% (many years ago in the conservative time Sir Alic Douglas Hume, I think, was PM, we had a 90% band?) for the high earners. Bit ironic realy, the \'Green Government\' say we should use Public Transport, if we did it would be disasterouse, someone is not telling the truth, speaking with forked toung, but then, whats new. In recent years (months) there has not been a truthfull word come from Westminster or the Whitehouse. There are a few dead soldiers who can lay testimoney to that.

We have a sword hanging, and Blair will drop it if he gets another 4 years. One gets the feeling only the rich are going to get anything out of the next Labour sorry \'New Labour\' (funny way to spell Conservative) gouvernment. And that only because they can afford to pay. The likes of the ordinary man in the street is in for a decade or two of hard times. And finaly when the penny drops, all change, nothing will change \'cos the new lot blame the legacy they have inherited from the old lot ! and so the merry-go-round continues.

Red diesel, you a\'int seen nothing yet ! ! ! CJS

[Charlton]

Hi Heather
i sent an e mail to Rob Peake, telling him about the answer i got, most interesting was his comment. Obviously i am waiting to see what the Labour Part say this time.

[blackvelvet]

good on you charlton. Like I said Bob Peakhas been e-mailing them, so it\'s a bit like this I have been told a while back that using bread soaks up the red dye and leaves the diesel white again, so if you got stopped and dipped by the police your in the clear, but I would imagine that it would cost you more to buy the bread in the first place. I hace noticed that some red diesel has less dye in it. we always put fuel injector in our diesel every 5 gal that\'s the boat .
Blackvelvet