Craiglxviii
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dont be daft, thats like asking why brit motorists drive on crxp roads AND pay road tax ,petrol tax and inssurnce tax.a calculation on average fuel burn ,avarage car ownership,average inssurance premium has been made and it JUST TAX ,period. what i would like to know is, when the driverless cars get going . who will be liable for the accidents , who will pay the premiums and how will the loss of petrol tax be made up.
OK so here are the 2015 UK consumption numbers in tons:
Petrogas: 12,082,000
Biogas: 631,000
Petrodiesel: 23,656,000
Biodiesel: 595,000
For a grand total of 12,713,000 tons petrol and 24,251,000 tons diesel.
Petrol has a specific gravity of 0.74 so 12,713kt of petrol = 17,180,000 cu m.
Diesel has a specific gravity of 0.84 so 24,251kt of diesel = 28,870,000 cu m.
Petrol consumption in litres = 17,180,000,000.
Diesel consumption in litres = 28,870,000,000.
For an average of 126,000,000 litres per day combined.
Fuel duty is set at £0.5795/ litre so the Treasury receives £73.1m per day from the British motorist. I remembered this at £50m/ day going back to the early noughties so close enough for government work.
(Btw the total fuel duty receipts are £26.7bn).
Right chaps, must dash.