No excuse for road fund licence at all. We all pay other taxes, roads should be an equal responsibility for all citizens as we all need them. High time they corrected this abuse of vehicle owners and shared fixed national costs more equally.
OG, it hasn't been the Road Fund Licence since 1936, it is called Vehicle Excise Duty and goes it to the general pot. So roads are funded by everybody, not just motorists.
Many years ago I worked for BP on the Exchanges system. The fuel companies each have a refinery/depot in a part of the UK and then they all fill up from each others. It's added up and then netted. But the company actually moving the fuel has to pay the excise duty for all the companies moving fuel form the depot. It was colossal then and paid monthly it must be huge now.