Biofuel drivers hit with fines in North Carolina
If you drive a biodiesel car in North Carolina, you might be slapped with a fine.
Although the state is trying to promote biofuel production and consumption, the state also wants to collect taxes on transportation fuel. So drivers that are filing up their cars with vegetable oil are getting nailed with fines for tax avoidance, according to a report in the Charlotte Observer.
Musician Bob Teixeira got snagged with a $1,000 fine from the state and may be hit with another $1,000 fine from the federal government, the newspaper stated. He's been filling his 1981 diesel Mercedes with vegetable oil from Costco. To start running the car legally on veggie oil, he will have to post a $2,500 bond, the newspaper reported.
Other drivers have been fined for running their cars on alcohol. In the old days, it was sold as moonshine.
Legal help, though, is probably on the way. The state's Department of Revenue is asking the legislature to exempt small consumers from any bond requirements. Some lawmakers are even going further. State senator Stan Bingham, who drives a soybean oil-powered Volkswagen with a "Goodbye OPEC" sticker, says people that retrofit their cars to avoid burning fossil fuels should be exempt from the state tax altogether.
If you try to sit I'll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat.
If you take a walk I'll tax your feet.
Maybe we are going in to a new dark age where environmentally friendly technology that could save us, is being held back by the law. And who writes the laws nowadays? Politicians, elected by us, following big company lobbyists. The dark ages of the Church is coming back as the dark ages of big companies and money.
It's sad. Just be aware, and we might sort it out.
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to lessen our coutry's dependence on foreign oil. He should alo be
praised for using s renewable resource to power his vehicle. How
about a pat on the back for choosing a fuel that spews fewer
particulates into the North Carolina air? He and senator Bingham
aren't sticking it to The Man (well, OK, maybe a little), they are
helping humanity.
hmmm, lets avoid high taxes on stuff that pollutes from the inside and make sure we tax the stuff that lowers pollution from the outside...makes sense to me!
immigrants to get a drivers license, no questions asked. Bet they
do not pay these taxes either.
you hook the battery on an electric vehicle up to a solar panel to
recharge it. You think maybe our government doesn't want us to
be energy independent?
You may very well be on their payroll. If you are I'll bet you'll vote
to keep the money coming in. There's never enough!
Patricia
North Carolina Drug Treatment
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