Posted on 06/09/2007 7:36:36 PM PDT by Flavius
But the state fined Teixeira a thousand dollars for not paying motor fuel taxes. Officials also told him that to legally use veggie oil here he'd have to first post a 25-hundred-dollar bond.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnct.com ...
The debate over oil's origin has been going on since the 19th century. From the start, there were those who contended that oil is primordial - that it dates back to Earth's origin - or that it is made through an inorganic process, while others argued that it was produced from the decay of living organisms (primarily oceanic plankton) that proliferated millions of years ago during relatively brief periods of global warming and were buried under ocean sediment in fortuitous circumstances.
http://www.rense.com/general58/biot.htm
Lovely. Tax thugs at work.
I can only imagine if that water-hydrogen car really worked!
(getting out tin foil conspiracy hat)
That sounds exactly like our Dhimmi controlled PRNC, they will not lose a nickel no matter what innovation it may crush.
Things are pretty bad here in the “Old North State”.
Shoulda kept his mouth shut. This guy now his bad deal (expensive conversion, overpriced fuel) is really screwed.
WTF?? I meant "Now this guy's bad deal..."
INFURIATING!
Unreal that you can fine an American citizens for NOT buying gasoline and still driving! the gall of these greedy politicos is dumbfounding....
leviathan-eats-itself alert.
In Pennsylvania, if you want to build your own ethanol still and make your own alternative fuel (for a Flex Fuel vehicle such as a newer model Chevy S-10 pickup), then you're required to submit monthly returns on ethanol usage (not production), along with payments at .21 per gallon burned. The tax sucks, but it still beats 31 cents per gallon that PA charges, and if you use your Flex Fuel vehicle for work and make your own fuel, then you can file for a .53 per gallon federal tax credit at tax time (you've got to keep a mileage log though). The tax laws on this stuff are definitely obsolete and need updating, especially since the state and federal governments are trying to encourage alternative fuels usage.
Oops!
“The tax laws on this stuff are definitely obsolete and need updating...”
At one time in England, home owners were charged per window. The predictable result was that many home simply closed up their windows, and God only knows how many people died from fires and diseases.
Then there was the tax on soap (true story!).....
Sounds a little like when all those people bought diesel cars ‘cause diesel fuel was “half the price” of gas.
Haha, look at it now./sarcasm
..and also at the end of the 18th century, the Whig controlled Parliament put a large tax on powdered periwigs, thereby driving them out of fashion rather suddenly.
Except that fuel taxes actually pay for the roads that people use.
This guy is a deadbeat by trying to avoid paying for a service he actually uses.
There are plenty of bad, redistributive taxes out there, but fuel taxes are some of the most fair taxes you'll find.
Okay. Cyclists use the roads too. Why aren’t bicycle riders also charged a tax. Deadbeats.
Not in NC.
Good reply.
ACK! Ya beat me to it about the bicyclists.
Btw, try FReeper favorite, Dr. Corsi’s book ‘Black Gold Stranglehold’, alot of info about Abiotic Oil.
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