Boaters to pay over £1 a litre for red diesel from 1 NovemberThe Government has announced its long-awaited decision on the future of red diesel – and it’s not good news for boaters. This will see prices of diesel for leisure boaters rocket from around 60p to over £1 a litre. The Government had considered enforcing a universal change to white diesel (see below), which would have forced many remote diesel suppliers to install a seperate tank for white diesel. Obviously, the attendant costs would have meant many simply stopped supplying leisure boaters, and therefore parts of the UK might have been put out of reach. As mentioned, commercial boaters will still be able to fill up with rebated red diesel.