Fuel doctor examines car filled with 'contaminated diesel'
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At the beginning of April, rebated diesel, or red diesel, and rebated biofuels will no longer be authorised for use as they are currently. Expert Clive Holland believes a delay is needed for the law change to help businesses prepare for the changes, which he described as a “tax on tax”.
The change is being made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, by increasing the tax on the fuel to reflect the impact of the emissions, promote energy efficiency and to promote the use of cleaner fuel alternatives.
Clive Holland, TV and radio presenter and spokesperson for Fix Radio, said the ban on red diesel would have far-reaching consequences on numerous sectors.
Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk, he said: “It’s a real vicious circle at the moment and I just wish I could just talk to the Government and say ‘can we just stop and think?’.
“They say these things and it becomes rhetoric and that rhetoric becomes reality and it just bothers me that we’re [construction] the first industry that’s taking the hit.
“If it gets to farm vehicles, you can definitely see the price of your produce going right through the roof, that’s for sure.
“If they could delay it for a year, it would give the industries a proper heads up. It alerts everyone.
“If it was phased in over the next 12 months then it would be your fault if your business hasn’t planned for that.”
The move has been a source of concern among UK businesses and, in particular sectors that heavily rely on machinery such as construction, due to the expenses that investing on energy efficient alternatives will incur.
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Operating costs are expected to rise by around 15 percent, with companies facing additional fuel expenses of between £100,000 and £400,000 per year – according to research commissioned by Resource Management Association Scotland (RMAS).
CPS Fuels found the switch from red to white diesel alone will bring an additional expense of 46.81 pence per litre used, resulting in five times as much duty rate as before.
Mr Holland continued, saying: “We can’t afford to just down tools and do physical protests, we’ve got work to do. At the minute we’ve got to have a proper alternative in place.
“I think they’ll use this as a barometer. They’ll think ‘we’ve used this with the builders, then the farmers, then the hospitals’.
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