Will diesel cars get banned ?

[st13phil]

I was using a TLA (three letter acronym), a use I normally abhor.

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The most redundant TLA I ever saw was in an IBM list of FRU's (Field Replaceable Units - spare parts to you and me) which was "AMD". This was an acronym for an Air Movement Device, or a FAN to anyone with average intelligence

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[Dieselman]

2500 litres is only 25 tanks full of fuel , for a typical private user who perhaps uses a tank per week , that only represents

The onus would be on HMRC to prove guilt , not the other way round .

Wrong. HMRC make an assessment and bill you for their assessment, you then have to prove they are wrong.
They will also back date it as far as they believe accurate.

A typical private user using 100 litres a week...what??

 

[219]

An assessment based on guesswork isn't worth the paper it's written on , and would be thrown out in the unlikely event it got as far as court . Even HMRC are not above the law .

I don't see 100 litres a week as all that unusual .

Certainly with every car I've ever owned a tankful a week is the minimum I've tended to use and sometimes a lot more - that's just for normal domestic use , currently commuting 70 miles daily , I have commuted as much as 150 miles daily in the past , plus a bit of running around .

When I had the Diesel Land Rover , it swallowed two tanks full of fuel every week without any more use than my cars get .

For most people I know , a weekly fill up is about normal .

 

[renault12ts]

100 litres a week is a lot. I did 13000 miles last year and only used just over 2000 litres of diesel.

100 litres a week would therefore get me about 34000 miles. Which, I suggest, is well above average.

 

[Deleted member 37751]

Big apologies, I was using a TLA (three letter acronym), a use I normally abhor. My only mitigation is the linked linked article refers to Kensington & Chelsea, which I find in its longest form, The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, a PITA (FLA) to write in full.

No problem Charles.
Before posting, I normally have to edit out any colloquial 'sayings' so as not to baffle most of you with a mix of rhyming slang and acronyms....

So I do understand your 'slip-up'

 

[Charles Morgan]

I thought I'd get my intervention in early, before Mocas and Renault12ts include acronyms in their grammatical and spelling Jihad....

 

[renault12ts]

Moi?

 

[Shude]

An assessment based on guesswork isn't worth the paper it's written on , and would be thrown out in the unlikely event it got as far as court . Even HMRC are not above the law .

Actually that's exactly how they work. Not on topic at all but they have right of entry to your property if they suspect you are guilty of PAYE fraud and that's just one example.

I am potentially about to provide evidence of my income to them for the last four years due to some company I have never worked for declaring me as an employee and also declaring £10k of income I never earned. Until I fix this with them I have to pay tax on that income due to PAYE and inflated tax code.

HMRC are above the law. It's generally "pay up or go to prison for tax evasion".

 

[MOCAŠ]

I thought I'd get my intervention in early, before Mocas and Renault12ts include acronyms in their grammatical and spelling Jihad....

I'm as guilty of this myself, having confused people with "RBKC" not so long ago.

Have to point out, though, that for an abbreviation to be an acromyn it has to form a word (eg: COBRA), or at least be pronounceable (eg: NATO). So "TLA" is not actually a TLA...

 

[Charles Morgan]

I never said TLA was an acronym.

 

[MOCAŠ]

I never said TLA was an acronym.

Never said you did. Just pointed out that it isn't...

 

[Dieselman]

HMRC are above the law. It's generally "pay up or go to prison for tax evasion".

You should have asked for a Winter stretch, saves on the heating bill...

 

[Dieselman]

100 litres a week is a lot. I did 13000 miles last year and only used just over 2000 litres of diesel.

100 litres a week would therefore get me about 34000 miles. Which, I suggest, is well above average.

Oh, yes...I nearly forgot about your car being a bit juicy...

I calculated 2500 litres to be 42,000 miles in a diesel.

Not quite the average of 12,000 miles then...

 

[219]

HMRC are above the law. It's generally "pay up or go to prison for tax evasion".

They do like to behave as though they are .

 

[219]

Oh, yes...I nearly forgot about your car being a bit juicy...

I calculated 2500 litres to be 42,000 miles in a diesel.

Not quite the average of 12,000 miles then...

I suppose it depends on the Diesel - my Landie seemed just as thirsty as my Petrol S Class - even at 5 years ago prices it drank £75 worth twice a week . A colleague with a Nissan Pathfinder gets between 15 and 20 mpg with his Diesel and there are lots of similar large 4x4 Diesels out there .

 

[hagarfriend]

i have a deisel van so cooking oil sems a good alternative, or not?

 

[219]

It depends on the age of the van - a lot of newer Diesels won't run on anything but Diesel .

 

[Ade B]

Prompted by this thread I had a quick google - apparently if you brew your own biodiesel you can run anything on it allegedly.

I've averaged 40L a week for the last 11months & 17k miles. Happily my miles will be dropping soon as the reasons for the weekly long commute come to an end.

I know a couple of peeps on here run cars on SVO, anyone tried their hand at moonshine biodiesel?