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  Let us remember that, in regards to subsidies for bus fares, the State receives massive amounts of money on petrol tax from people who drive vehicles. This tax is a lot higher than the actual cost of petrol, meaning that the British State Treasury actually erns more money on selling the petrol on the internal market than the oil-producing countries earn selling it to Britain.
  The same applies for most industrialised couintries.
  
  So if the State - or County - dishes out a little fraction of this income on subsidised bus-fares, it's the least one can expect; it's a small return in favour of people who go with the bus, and in particular it's fair on children.
  
  Furthermore, KCC is proposing new laws to the Government that will allow Kent to oblige foreign lorries to buy petrol in Briitain (and so-by pay petrol-tax to the Treasury) instead of using belly-tanks that allow them to buy the petrol abroad and then circulate here for three days without ever contributing to our Treasury. I know this because KCC in Maidstone informed me in a letter a few weeks ago. They also taold me that they are asking the Government to introduce port taxes on vehicles in Dover, that will go to KCC.
  
  In fact I gave KCC my full moral support and asked them to continue with these plans.

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