Diesel engines require no modification to run biodiesel.
Modern injection systems have problems with biodiesel (got that from a buddy who's designing those at Bosch). So, while the engine will run, it'll foul up your injection system sooner or later. Especially since they still have problems getting consistent fuel quality.
Non-injected diesel engines don't have these issues, but they aren't as efficient as their modern brethern and probably harder to find in cars, too.
That's not true. Quite a few modern engines are factory certified to run at least on E85.
Try running your (modern) diesel engine with E85, and you don't even need a bad batch to kiss it goodbye. It'll pretty much kill it as soon as you try to start the engine.
The modern, efficient diesel engines (pump-nozzle or common-rail injection) usually don't get clearance for biodiesel from their manufacturer. One bad batch of the stuff and you can kiss the engine goodbye, which usually comes with a four-digit bill attached to it.
It would only work if we let GM, Ford, and Chrysler use prison labor to build cars for free.
Great. Then you'd get the labor for free, but would have an equal number of highly trained (paid) professionals to do quality control, to prevent anything from sloppiness to outright sabotage.
Or if we let mining companies use prison labor down in the mines.
Yeah, right. Give high-powered tools and explosived to prisoners. Sound like a surefire way to profit to me.
When the hell has building a giant wall ever helped anything?
Why, it sure kept all the evil capitalist clerical fascists out of East Berlin ! Don't dismiss the effectivness of a giant wall, especially when it's manned by armed goons with an order to shoot and secured with anti-personnel mines.
Obviously when they were researching into Hydrogen fuel cells the one thing on their mind was *Zero Carbon emission*, but the infrastructure is also coming up and once cars start rolling in full scale things will start catching pace.
If you can _make_ all tha hydrogen without emitting any CO2, that would be nice, because it means that you've found an energy source that doesn't emit any CO2.
However, if you have such an energy source, what keeps you from directly or indirectly drawing CO2 out of the atmosphere and produce a hydrocarbon fuel instead of hydrogen ? You'd still have zero net CO2 emissions and would need far fewer changes to the existing infrastructure.
If you want to readjust your value downwards, all you have to do is arrange another auction.
Which confirms my original assertion that a single transaction is not enough to determine a "market value".
Also, by that time you might already owe x% of thirten bajillion dollars in taxes (which you have no hope of ever paying, and which the government has no hope of ever collecting, but that won't stop them from trying.
So, you auction a second rock.
Which is easy enough for rocks, but not for any good that is somewhat unique.
Certainly an almighty being could do that, but then I'd feel more like I was in some teenager's ant farm than under the protection of some loving divine.
Well, surely God must love us if He went through all the trouble of restoring a whole universe from backup 6000 years ago... ?
In that case you'd sell the rock to him for a million, what's the problem ?
All the other rocks on your property will suddenly be valued at $1M by the tax authorities and taxed at this amount, if the highest bid of a single auction was considered the market value.
A small artist who values his or her work will take the time to maintain their own copyrights. However, this would not be cost effective for large corporation that owns 1000s of copyrights.
Ever heard of outsourcing ?
If you can find a team of Vogons to write the forms, a large corporation can probably hire a cheaper team of Vogons to fill them in.
Isn't market value supposed to be an estimate of what someone would be willing to pay for the property?
It's an expected value, using a term from statistics. Kind of like the expected value of a six-sided die roll is 3.5.
An Auction finds out how much someone is willing to pay.
An auction rolls a six-sided die, figuratively speaking. You may end up with a 1 or a 6 (but not with a 0 or a 7) - one single roll won't tell you all that much about the expected value. You've got to roll a bit more often to make a statement about it.
I thought the only tax on vehicles was registration, and isn't that a road usage tax rather than a property tax?
They don't really care whether you use the roads or not, and depending on the country you live in the amount might depend on things that have no connection whatsoever with road usage, like the type of engine (diesel or gasoline), the displacement and the emissions rating. If you have a registered vehicle, you have to pay tax.
Heck, there might even be a dog tax. You own a dog, you pay tax. And no, that doesn't allow you to let your dog poop on the sidewalk. And then there might be things like gift tax, too.
Which at that point, you probably couldn't pay those taxes,
But you'd still _owe_ them. Ever tried convincing the government that you don't owe them a cut of "One hundred billion trillion zomgbbq dollars" ? (Oh, and while you're at it, try convincing them to cancel any interest on that, too. You could probably live like a king if you got half an hour worth of interest on that sum).
I'd be more inclined to ask why the United States taxes property in the first place. It's not a concept I'm familiar with in Europe.
You either aren't very familiar with the tax laws, or you live in an odd country in Europe. Even here, you may be paying taxes for things like owning a house, a motor vehicle, or just having a high net worth, depending on the country.
As to your claim that an auction does not establish the value of something, that is pure nonsense. Generally when we're talking fincance and value, what is meant with value is how much cash you could exchange it for. The fact that somebody bid a million is evidence that at that moment, you could exchange it for one million, by the simple expedient of saying "yes thank you".
A single transaction establishes a price, but not a market value. It needs to have some repeatability for that. Otherwise, the amount of mischief (mildly put) one could pull on the stock market, for example, would be pretty much limitless.
If I put a rock on auction and some rich joker offers me a million dollars for it, then that is exactly zero indication that the market value of rocks has just risen to a million dollars apiece. However, if in the last few months rocks have consistently fetched a million dollars apiece in a large number of auctions, then it might be time to invest in the rock business.
I've declared the price, so it's a fair price by definition.
No, because the price you declared is influenced by the rate of taxation. It's not the price at which you'd sell, but the price for which you can pay taxes.
That is the point: the auction doesn't force you to sell, because obviously you can afford to pay yourself ANY amount.
It forces you to sell as soon as you cannot pay the taxes that come with this "ANY amount".
It does however establish a fair marketprice.
No, because you're not guaranteed to fetch the same value (or even close to it) a second time. Especially when it comes to possibly memory-laden things like houses.
Make it a blind auction, and take the median of all bids, any maybe, just maybe, you're closer to a realistic market value, without including too much individual psychology.
... except you will now be taxed for owning property provably worth "ONE HUNDRED BILLION TRILLION ZOMG BBQ DOLLARS", so your net gain/loss is a tad on the negative side.
I wonder what the government is going to do with a percentage of "ONE HUNDRED BILLION TRILLION ZOMG BBQ DOLLARS" which it can never hope to collect ? Take your property away and sell it ? Are they going to find another entity that will bid "ONE HUNDRED BILLION TRILLION ZOMG BBQ DOLLARS" on it ? If not, what then ?
The whole approach completely ignores that goods may have vastly different values to different individuals. One persons priceless keepsake may just be a piece of garbage for anyone else.
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Modern injection systems have problems with biodiesel (got that from a buddy who's designing those at Bosch). So, while the engine will run, it'll foul up your injection system sooner or later. Especially since they still have problems getting consistent fuel quality.
Non-injected diesel engines don't have these issues, but they aren't as efficient as their modern brethern and probably harder to find in cars, too.
That's not true. Quite a few modern engines are factory certified to run at least on E85. Try running your (modern) diesel engine with E85, and you don't even need a bad batch to kiss it goodbye. It'll pretty much kill it as soon as you try to start the engine.
The modern, efficient diesel engines (pump-nozzle or common-rail injection) usually don't get clearance for biodiesel from their manufacturer. One bad batch of the stuff and you can kiss the engine goodbye, which usually comes with a four-digit bill attached to it.
A couple of thousand bucks ($ or Euros) still buys a lot of fuel.
Make sure their only other option is starvation. That leaves way too much time for contemplation. Try guns and torture, it's faster.
Great. Then you'd get the labor for free, but would have an equal number of highly trained (paid) professionals to do quality control, to prevent anything from sloppiness to outright sabotage.
Or if we let mining companies use prison labor down in the mines.
Yeah, right. Give high-powered tools and explosived to prisoners. Sound like a surefire way to profit to me.
Why, it sure kept all the evil capitalist clerical fascists out of East Berlin ! Don't dismiss the effectivness of a giant wall, especially when it's manned by armed goons with an order to shoot and secured with anti-personnel mines.
If you can _make_ all tha hydrogen without emitting any CO2, that would be nice, because it means that you've found an energy source that doesn't emit any CO2.
However, if you have such an energy source, what keeps you from directly or indirectly drawing CO2 out of the atmosphere and produce a hydrocarbon fuel instead of hydrogen ? You'd still have zero net CO2 emissions and would need far fewer changes to the existing infrastructure.
Which confirms my original assertion that a single transaction is not enough to determine a "market value".
Also, by that time you might already owe x% of thirten bajillion dollars in taxes (which you have no hope of ever paying, and which the government has no hope of ever collecting, but that won't stop them from trying.
So, you auction a second rock.
Which is easy enough for rocks, but not for any good that is somewhat unique.
This might come as a shock, but there are people who _know_ that the Bible came directly from God. By fax. And in English.
Well, surely God must love us if He went through all the trouble of restoring a whole universe from backup 6000 years ago
It has the better stories, though. Murder, war, bloodshed, all the good stuff.
Tip 4 - don't take any of it literally, especially not in translation.
There should be another tip that explicitly refers to Revelations.
There's no such thing as "the protestant church".
And most churches in the US that claim to be protestant didn't even exist when the "protest" took place that the term "protestant" refers to (1529).
In that case you'd sell the rock to him for a million, what's the problem ?
All the other rocks on your property will suddenly be valued at $1M by the tax authorities and taxed at this amount, if the highest bid of a single auction was considered the market value.
Ever heard of outsourcing ?
If you can find a team of Vogons to write the forms, a large corporation can probably hire a cheaper team of Vogons to fill them in.
It's an expected value, using a term from statistics. Kind of like the expected value of a six-sided die roll is 3.5. An Auction finds out how much someone is willing to pay. An auction rolls a six-sided die, figuratively speaking. You may end up with a 1 or a 6 (but not with a 0 or a 7) - one single roll won't tell you all that much about the expected value. You've got to roll a bit more often to make a statement about it.
They don't really care whether you use the roads or not, and depending on the country you live in the amount might depend on things that have no connection whatsoever with road usage, like the type of engine (diesel or gasoline), the displacement and the emissions rating. If you have a registered vehicle, you have to pay tax.
Heck, there might even be a dog tax. You own a dog, you pay tax. And no, that doesn't allow you to let your dog poop on the sidewalk. And then there might be things like gift tax, too.
But you'd still _owe_ them. Ever tried convincing the government that you don't owe them a cut of "One hundred billion trillion zomgbbq dollars" ? (Oh, and while you're at it, try convincing them to cancel any interest on that, too. You could probably live like a king if you got half an hour worth of interest on that sum).
You either aren't very familiar with the tax laws, or you live in an odd country in Europe. Even here, you may be paying taxes for things like owning a house, a motor vehicle, or just having a high net worth, depending on the country.
A single transaction establishes a price, but not a market value. It needs to have some repeatability for that. Otherwise, the amount of mischief (mildly put) one could pull on the stock market, for example, would be pretty much limitless.
If I put a rock on auction and some rich joker offers me a million dollars for it, then that is exactly zero indication that the market value of rocks has just risen to a million dollars apiece. However, if in the last few months rocks have consistently fetched a million dollars apiece in a large number of auctions, then it might be time to invest in the rock business.
No, because the price you declared is influenced by the rate of taxation. It's not the price at which you'd sell, but the price for which you can pay taxes.
Only if inflation is somewhere close to 100% p.a. . And in that case, you've got bigger problems than IP.
It forces you to sell as soon as you cannot pay the taxes that come with this "ANY amount".
It does however establish a fair marketprice.
No, because you're not guaranteed to fetch the same value (or even close to it) a second time. Especially when it comes to possibly memory-laden things like houses.
Make it a blind auction, and take the median of all bids, any maybe, just maybe, you're closer to a realistic market value, without including too much individual psychology.
I wonder what the government is going to do with a percentage of "ONE HUNDRED BILLION TRILLION ZOMG BBQ DOLLARS" which it can never hope to collect ? Take your property away and sell it ? Are they going to find another entity that will bid "ONE HUNDRED BILLION TRILLION ZOMG BBQ DOLLARS" on it ? If not, what then ?
The whole approach completely ignores that goods may have vastly different values to different individuals. One persons priceless keepsake may just be a piece of garbage for anyone else.
They use *GO!GO!* for the *dancing* with *silly cows*.
(Turn in your geek card if you don't get the reference.)