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Originally Posted by Bakkels
So diesel is more expensive in the UK than regular petrol? 
That's kinda weird.. Or are there tax-benefits when driving diesel in the UK? Cause here in the Netherlands, diesel is quite a bit cheaper than petrol, but you pay more road-tax (or whatever it's called in English).
So you only benefit from diesel when you're driving more than 30.000 km. |
No tax benefits for driving a diesel. You can get vehicles that get cheaper road tax, but that's based on retrospective (back to vehicles registered from 2001) road tax based on c02 emissions*. Basically less emissions = less tax, and in some cases, no road tax at all.
Essentially, drivers here have been encouraged to buy diesel vehicles - the original cost of diesel in the UK was cheaper than petrol - diesel was hailed as more efficient and therefore greener and less polluting than petrol.
So more people got diesel cars. The end result is that diesel is now more expensive than unleaded petrol, by a margin of at least 5 pence per litre on average.
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Originally Posted by Ducimus
I dunno what LPG is, but "MoGas" is what Unleaded gasoline is called in the US military.
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Ah, ok. LPG - liquid petroleum gas.
* whilst this has made the road tax on some cars cheaper, it has made others more expensive. Eg. landrover discovery 2001 TD5 2.5L used to cost about £200 per year to tax. After the retrospective change in road tax back to 2001, the same vehicle is now about £400 to tax for the year.