Could it be that our "leaders" in Whitehall suspect that red is widely used in taxable applications (surely no one would do that...) but AVGAS is useless for anything but aircraft, and therefore cannot be "diverted" to other uses.
To the dull wit of the Whitehall bureautwat this might well suggest that AVGAS is "harmless" as no tax revenue is being lost, but as red is being widely misused than an attempt to claw back some of the "missing" revenue must be made.
To the poster who stated that aircraft use much more fuel than boats, Oh dear, where do I start? Pal, most light aircraft have one engine of less than 150HP and thus burn (1 GAL/20BHP/Hr as a rule of thumb) roughly 5 GPH at cruise power. Guess what, bigger ones use more! There are relatively few light aircraft in the twin 350Hp category - common as hell in boats...
BTW, aviators never use the slightly snide description "private" appended to any aircraft, any more than they would so refer to your private boats... or cars, or houses, or lawnmowers... What constitutes a Public aircraft? RAF?
Remember, flying is totally safe, all accidents occur at ground level.
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