Posted on 06/09/2007 7:36:36 PM PDT by Flavius
I hate paying taxes as much as the next guy but there's no legitimate reason, in principle, to dodge road maintenance taxes if you use the road.
Simply put--if you use the road, you pay a fair share to maintain it. What's considered fair (tractor trailer v. dirt hauling truck v. car v. pickup v. skateboard) is another argument altogether. And unless you're totally clueless, you already know that tractor trailers pay mighty hefty tolls compared to cars, and for good reason.
Burning grease is no excuse for dodging your responsibility for roadway maintenance.
I knew a Freeper would comment! Cheers...
He is not dodging responsibility. He STILL PAYS numerous transport taxes (tolls, licensing, etc.). If the state wants to tax his home made fuel, then they should be honest and do so. According to the article, he is being fined for not buying petrol at the pump. If the state wants to tax his home-made fuel, then it should propose such a tax and not fine someone for not using taxed commercial fuel. At that rate, cyclists should be fined as should people who drive electric vehicles (using the roads, but not using taxed commercial fuel).
The *real* problem with this retrograde reactionary is, the oil was hydrogenated. /sarc
Also, there may have been some trans fat in it. Horrors!
Not in Kahlifoania.
Do not, repeat, do not try and not pay taxes around Democrats. It only seems that Global Warmings is their religion. It may or may not be. But definitely taxes are their sacrament.
State Makes Big Fuss Over Local Couple’s Vegetable Oil Car Fuel (Told To Pay Taxes on Fuel or Else)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794636/posts
So if my state promises to use gas tax income for roads, then uses it for other purposes, can I sue and get my money back?
But we pay for “bike lanes” with the gas taxes!
Just shows you what happens these days when an avarage American takes it upon their own hands (and exits the system): Really good old American Inginuity (the type that makes this nation great! At least in the ‘olden days’). Now “we” are property of the Government folks, or at least they think that, when you try to get “Outside the System”, you die, or have your freedom taken away (through taxation or/and incarceration)..And what was this guys crime really?
The innovation was not sacntioned by his overlords.
That burns me up!
Ummm...I have to admit I posted without reading the article, but only because I've heard this basic story many times before. Usually it's about a guy burning french fry grease.
And so I admit I was a dumbass for not reading the article and apologize. Too a degree.
How can I explain this? There is diesel, there is K3 (kerosene) and there is home heating oil. I was working with a trackhoe operator who ran low on fuel and put five gallons of diesel into it to get it running. The container he used was translucent and I commented to him that I had never seen purple fuel before. He told me that it was purple because it was dyed and it was essentially home heating fuel or kerosene (either of which would've run his trackhoe) but it was dyed to show that it had been taxed. He didn't dare put even five gallons of kerosene into his piece of equipment because he could've been fined thousands of dollars. The state is very, very greedy when it comes down to fuel tax revenue.
It sounds to me that the guitar teacher was a well intentioned fool who (if his story is true) should be cut some slack. But even if true, he still wasn't paying his fair share of highway maintenance taxes.
Haha, look at it now./sarcasm”
I think Diesel is still 40 cents cheaper a gallon here in western Illinois. I don’t follow it, but I did notice a sign the other day for some reason (maybe because mid grade gas was 3.70?)
The gov’t is missing the big picture — at least his vehicle doesn’t contribute to vitamin B12 pollution. :’)
Just wait until all those Electric cars hit the road.
Gas taxes are a necessity. Who “should” pay for the roads?
I’ve pointed this out for some time.
Would you rather pay $2,000 up front every year to license your car?
In some communities you do have to license your bicycle.
And the Critical Mass bicycle protestors deliberately congest roadways (and run stop lights and stop signs).
What I oppose are revenue tickets written on motorists strictly as additional funds for city operations. No city should RELY on “crime” as a way of getting bills paid. It makes them expand the definition of “crime” until they have enough $$$ and there is “never enough” $$$ to be satisfied.
Does anybody argue they need a warrant to do this? Seems like a slam dunk to me, but they have been doing it for years.
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