Hey Bob,
I think your situation reinforces the idea that fuel/energy dependence isn't an OPEC thing and that the problem is home grown. If corporations and local governments didn't work together to limit the number of sources, you couldn't effectively tax it. I'm not against taxes, just how I'm taxed and what it's spent on (i.e. 750,000,000,000 on "defense").
If my local government tried something like that with me, I'd seriously consider producer gas as a fuel. Let them try and noodle out a method of measuring and taxing CO and H2 by the cubic foot. The perfect fuel for a bureaucracy. The longer one waits to measure it, the less fuel their is to measure.
:-)
- Redler
P.S. I went to http://www.ozarker.org/ and noticed that there is no "Recreational Bob" link. Shame on
you.
bob allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
the tax applies to any fuel produced and used on-road. I don't have
the letter here in front of me, but as I recall it wanted to know how
much I produced total and how much was used as on-road motor fuel. The
tax is retroactive for 2005.
DHAJOGLO wrote:
> Does the tax apply even if you are producing it as an "additive?"
>
> -dave
>
>
> On Monday, August 07, 2006 4:13 PM, bob allen wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:13:54 -0500
>> From: bob allen
>> To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
>> Subject: [Biofuel] the tax man cometh
>>
>> I recently received a letter from the Arkansas Department of finance. I am to herewith submit 22.5
>> cents per gallon of biodiesel produced. I guess that this happened because of an article that
>> appeared in a statewide newspaper, concerning my manufacture of biodiesel as a student project.
>> (Some pin-headed commercial producer felt that I should be paying my fair share of taxes), which I
>> don't mind.
>>
>> Now if I can just figure out how to get the 50 cent-a-gallon produce tax credit.
>>
>> --
>> Bob Allen, http://ozarker.org/bob
>>
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