I agree completely. But I'm afraid unless this stays a real pain the butt for doing the wvo thing so that your average person isn't going to want to do the work himself(Personally I would much rather pay the money and fill up at a gas station than all the crap I go through to collect and filter and try to run my benz on wvo, but I don't consider the amount that it costs for me to drive as much as I do worth it. If my only travels were an occasional trip to town you can bet your butt that I would be back in my Subaru! but alas, my commute to work and such means I put on about 400-500 miles a week)
But on the downside, if the government manages to believe that they're losing or just plain not getting money they could be I can't possibly believe that they're not going to start passing more laws to be sure they get their money. To be honest, I'm still a little unsure of the laws right now. If I go drive down the road here in upstate NY on WVO, am I breaking the law by not paying road tax? A couple months ago I thought the answer was no. But I've heard a couple comments in the last month that lead me to believe that the road tax is not on a "per fuel" basis, but on the plain fact that you're using fuel and you're on the road... Either way, I'm surprised they don't already have checks in place for restaurants as to where their waste oil is going. Levi Dang, I'm just going to have to start stockpiling some veggie oil for when the revolution comes! (: On 10/21/05, Christopher McCann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Agree - they'll care about road tax, like the govt did > in England, but the original poster's argument was > that fresh VO will provoke the govt to action but WVO > will not. I DO DISAGREE with that as the England case > proves as you are avoiding fuel tax either way. > > To extend your scenarios, there will be a LARGE fine > for restaraunts releasing waste oil to anyone without > a "waste oil" disposal permit (which will be > expensive, but the grease companies won't care, > becuase it will get all the VO-ers out of "their" > grease). > > Let's just hope with all GW's talk about energy > conservation, they follow the lead of the German govt > and do nothing rather than the English and force > everyone to go to the man for fuel. > > Freaking idiots - we do something good for the > country, truly patriotic, that helps our fellow man > (CHEAP RENEWABLE FUEL) and they crap on us. Hope it > doesn't happen, but I can easily imagine it. > > "Please fill out this form as you are buying more than > 3 gallons of cooking oil" - explicative restrained. > > Chris > >
