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Originally Posted by HarryT
As you know, fuel prices are almost entirely tax. It sounds as if in your country, there's lower tax on diesel than petrol, which isn't the case in the UK (other than so-called "red diesel", which can only be used by farmers). In my local garage at the moment, petrol is £1.02 a litre, diesel is £1.15 a litre.
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Tax on 1-1-2009
€0.706 on petrol
€0.4185 on diesel
€0,13137 on LPG.
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Originally Posted by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_tax
The sale of fuels in the Netherlands is levied with an excise tax. The 2007 fuel tax was € 0.684 per litre or $ 3.5 per gallon. On top of that is 19% VAT over the entire fuel price, making the Dutch taxes one of the highest in the world. In total, taxes account for 68,84% of the total price of petrol and 56,55% of the total price of diesel
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I believe the diesel tax is lower to help the transport industry.
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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm
There's only a penny between petrol and diesel where I am - £1.04 for petrol and £1.05 for diesel.
Unfortunately I don't know any farmers  |
Red Diesel (which we also have and doesn't have the fuel tax) leaves a red fuel tank. If you get caught using it in a regular car, you can pay all the missing taxes and a huge fine...