Petrol Substitute

I know exactly how you feel I have a big lawn to mow, as well as several other garden machines and it always bugs me paying road duty on the petrol for the mower.

Mike

As "road fuel" otherwise the stuff burnt in motorcycles would be duty free. B-)

You can get the duty back from HMR&C if you jump through the right hoops.

Alternative *might* be ethanol, that is used in some countries instead of petrol but not without problems.

AVGAS is not taxed, although when I was still flying it was not much different in price from motor fuel with the tax.

Colin Bignell

AVGAS is now well over £2 per litre at Edinburgh.

I have just taken a look at the HMR&C website and it seems unleaded petrol, avtur and avgas used for what they call "private pleasure-flying" all attract the same duty as road fuel. The same applies to fuel used for private pleasure boating. Its all here.

I am afraid to say I think it is now :-{ Currently about £1.90-ish per litre inc VAT (as is Jet-A1/Avtur if not for 'commercial' use I believe).

Colin Bignell

Oh yes it is! (and AFAIK always has been). Avtur is the one that isn't tax'ed.

Propane in an 18kg forklift bottle?

AJH

I never had to sign the declaration that HMRC require these days to buy AVGAS, so I believe there was a time when it was not.

Colin Bignell

Red petrol, same as red diesel.

However owing to lack of demand (there aren't that many vintage tractors left) they stopped making it about 15 years ago. I think HMRC deleted it from the paperwork shortly afterwards.

The only time I have seen that was in an ex army Land Rover, one tank was half full of red petrol when I bought it.

Mike

Most lawn mowing is NOT pleasurable!