George Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >--- "Mack, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If you were to forego the option of travelling with the engine >> running, >> then you would have an electric boat, powered from batteries, and a >> separate diesel generator. Would that mean that you could use red >> diesel in the generator? Or claim the electric boat licence discount? >> >> Or stretching the point a little further, ><snip?, swapping over the battery sets periodically, >> but never having the generator connected directly to the traction >> motor? > >I read somewhere recently that you can't propel the boat either >directly OR INDIRECTLY with the generated power and claim the discount. > But no time now to figure where I saw that or the credibility of the >source! > > - george
Oh, I love this! How could it be enforced? Electricity is in effect fungible, so there is no way of telling whether the bit of it you are using now to turn your motor is a bit that was generated by you or a bit you took in at a shore connection. Actually, I asked HMRC this whole question a few months ago, and in effect it said "Hmm". I got the impression it didn't much care, but I could have been wrong. Adrian Adrian Stott 07956-299966
