Fuel Order Needs Amendment R EFUSAL of extra supplies of petrol
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for a Land-Rover required for ploughing, as well as for use as a private car, has brought to light an invidious position. Existing • regulations governing the allocation of petrol supplies prevent' the fullest use from being made of this versatile machine, because a vehicle cannot be registered for both private and goods transport and as an agricultural and goods machine at the same time.
According to•the Ministries of Trans
port and Fuel and Power, if a vehicle .
be registered as a private car or a private and 'goods vehicle, paying•whichever licence rate is the higher, coupons for white petrol are issued, in accordance with the decisionS of the local petroleum office. To obtain petrol for agricultural. use, the vehicle must be lieensed as an agricultural goods vehicle and employed entirely as such, in which case, coupons for red petrol are issued.
The fuel regulations clearly need amendment to meet this position: