Just to be a pedant, I know you meant MW not mW.

I’m happy for them to waste 10mW but paper straws vs 10MW of bs… well I think we know what we prefer.

The context of this rebate is the tax is designed to pay for roads. These companies have to split their diesel use between vehicles that use roads and those that do not (e.g. mine trucks).

So they managed to get someone in government many years ago to say “why yes, you don’t use roads so you don’t need to pay the roads tax on fuel”.

Considering how profitable these companies are … well.

Happy to be corrected in this background if someone knows better.