In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy Greener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >You have to get inside the bureaucratic mind Sue to understand what >will happen in practice - all diesel sold will be white (i.e. fully >taxed), and you'll have to apportion your own use between propulsion >and heating/electricity generation and proactively claim a rebate on >the allowable portion. Hire operators will simply claim a rebate on >the lot as commercial operators. You and I will have to agree some >notional apportionment in advance (or be told what is "acceptable"). >More paperwork, more bureaucracy - result: happy bureaucrats. I don't see that happening, too much chance of a fiddle going on. It will be simple if you have one tank on a pleasure boat then it will be white and the fact that you use it for heating etc. is tough luck just as it is for trucks. If you have two tanks then the engine one will be white and the heating one red as in France. Personally I hope to be changing my heating to 28sec heating oil, Mikuni says fine as do Kabola ( with a regulator change) and so does SIG marine its cheaper and cleaner then red. All depends if I can get a tank on the moorings for the winter ( boat tank full will last for a summer with ease).
I don't really see the problem using white as most narrow boats only use a couple of litres an hour at most, and anyone with a new boat and diesel heating should have had the foresight to have a separate tank fitted when it was built. For older boats you could convert the front lockers that would give you about 90L a side. -- Julian Tether Barge Parglena e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
