Can we blame DUP & Brexit for this?Another incentive for farmers to vote for reunification?
That's gonna massively f**k things up.QuoteExplaining the increased duty on red diesel, a government official said: “We are talking not only about a significant contribution to climate change but also to the quality of our air.“At the moment people aren’t incentivised to make the change to lower consumption or alternative fuels. We need to fix that.”Are these f**kers living in the real world?A small (120 bhp) sized tractor might run through over £100 of red a day.A bigger (200 bhp) sized tractor might run through double that!Thats north of a thousand pound a week on fuel and some f**kwit in whitehall thinks "people aren't incentivised to make the change to lower consumption"?
Explaining the increased duty on red diesel, a government official said: “We are talking not only about a significant contribution to climate change but also to the quality of our air.“At the moment people aren’t incentivised to make the change to lower consumption or alternative fuels. We need to fix that.”
One of the most senior government advisers has said the UK does not need its farming or fishing industries, according to reports.In comments seen by the Mail on Sunday, Dr Tim Leunig is understood to have said the food sector was “not critically important” to the country’s economy – and that agriculture and fisheries “certainly isn’t”.The economic adviser to the chancellor, in his leaked emails, is reported to have said that ministers could follow the example of Singapore, which is “rich without having its own agricultural sector”.
13:20Chancellor to scrap diesel tax reliefThe chancellor says he will scrap a scheme that allows companies in some sectors to pay duty of just over 11p per litre for diesel, compared to almost 58p per litre for everyone else."But the sectors using red diesel are some of the biggest contributors to our air quality problem - emitting nearly 10% of the most noxious gases polluting the air of cities like London," he tells MPs."This is a tax relief on nearly 14 million tonnes of carbon dioxide every year", which, he says, is the same as the entire population of London and Greater Manchester taking a return flight to New York."It’s been a £2.4bn tax break for pollution that’s also hindered the development of cleaner alternatives. So I will abolish the tax relief for most sectors."
*Fuel subsidies for off-road vehicles - known as red diesel - will be scrapped "for most sectors" in two years time*Farmers and rail operators will be excluded
Quote from: RadioGAAGAA on March 11, 2020, 02:18:44 PM*Fuel subsidies for off-road vehicles - known as red diesel - will be scrapped "for most sectors" in two years time*Farmers and rail operators will be excludedSo red diesel will still exist and the need for diesel dippers will still exist.
Quote from: dec on March 11, 2020, 02:27:21 PMQuote from: RadioGAAGAA on March 11, 2020, 02:18:44 PM*Fuel subsidies for off-road vehicles - known as red diesel - will be scrapped "for most sectors" in two years time*Farmers and rail operators will be excludedSo red diesel will still exist and the need for diesel dippers will still exist.More than ever, because they will no have to dip diggers.
