Cowabunga
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- Ceredigion,Wales
Except that it isn't just taxed lower for agriculture. Even those tarmacking gangs you see at this time of year run much of their equipment on red, because they are deemed to be working 'on site' when between the road works signs. Obviously the trucks that haul the machinery and material to the site all run on white, but the planers, rollers, Barber Greens and whatnot all run on red. They would certainly NOT claim that they were subsidised. Same for building sites everywhere, where the site machinery is run on red. Domestic housebuilders are NOT subsidised by using lower duty rate fuel any more than farmers are. The duty is applied appropriate to the use to which the fuel is put as mandated by Parliament. Same as different rates of income tax, which I previously used to illustrate the point and is still the simplest way of explaining and deradicalising people of this spurious notion.Originally I think it was more to with a cheap food policy