Medskipper
Well-Known Member
Everyone is saying that its going to be the same price as road diesel, about £5 a gallon. Thats about £1.10. p.l.
The UK is a member of the EU, but this is not the average price in the EU. I know for a fact that the price of fully taxed diesel in most of the Med areas is only £3. per gallon, i.e. 65p.p.l. So good old rip off Britain strikes again! We are members of the EU when it suites the government and when it does not, they charge us what they like! The tax duty on our fuel is massive and covers several layers of tax going right back to the war.
I have had 20 years of boating so I count myself lucky that I have been able to scrape together enough to have a boat and run it, but with the ever increasing cost of boating these days coupled with the fact that as I get older I seem to be unable to earn what I was 10 years ago due to younger minds being demanded, I will be one of the boating cummunity that has to pack it in!
I have worked out that from Chatham to Ramsgate will cost me over three hundred quid if the price is a fiver a gallon! and I don't even like Ramsgate! I can get there by car for £15. Why would I want to spend that kind of money?
Sell the boat and take holidays to the sun I think. The boating industry has just lost its first sale as I was going to install a new Nav system for the flybridge and below which was going to cost a good few quid! hey ho.
Good Christmas wishes to you all,
Barry
The UK is a member of the EU, but this is not the average price in the EU. I know for a fact that the price of fully taxed diesel in most of the Med areas is only £3. per gallon, i.e. 65p.p.l. So good old rip off Britain strikes again! We are members of the EU when it suites the government and when it does not, they charge us what they like! The tax duty on our fuel is massive and covers several layers of tax going right back to the war.
I have had 20 years of boating so I count myself lucky that I have been able to scrape together enough to have a boat and run it, but with the ever increasing cost of boating these days coupled with the fact that as I get older I seem to be unable to earn what I was 10 years ago due to younger minds being demanded, I will be one of the boating cummunity that has to pack it in!
I have worked out that from Chatham to Ramsgate will cost me over three hundred quid if the price is a fiver a gallon! and I don't even like Ramsgate! I can get there by car for £15. Why would I want to spend that kind of money?
Sell the boat and take holidays to the sun I think. The boating industry has just lost its first sale as I was going to install a new Nav system for the flybridge and below which was going to cost a good few quid! hey ho.
Good Christmas wishes to you all,
Barry
