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When road tax, red diesel, organic food and bio-fuels meet, Part 4

There are few constants in life: death and taxes. And as we’ve moved through the centuries, to our dismay, we’re not much closer to cheating either, but we might just be able to lessen their reach and even delay them for a while.
What if we could make some taxes look so bad that the government [...]

When road tax, red diesel, organic food and bio-fuels meet, Part 3

Diversify or die! Sound advice. The kind of advice many farmers have taken to heart. But are bio-fuels the way forward, or are the farmers just sewing the seeds of their own demise?
In the first installment, I looked at the proposed ‘pay as you drive’ scheme and what such a scheme means to the average [...]