State government desperate for revenue


Inventive solution costs North Carolina man substantial fine

Just in case you have forgotten. It's not about your choices, it's about government picking your pocket no matter what.

Bob Teixeira, a Charlotte guitar teacher, took a stand against US dependence on foreign oil last fall. He spent 12-hundred dollars to convert his 1981 diesel Mercedes to run on vegetable oil. He buys soybean oil in 5-gallon jugs at Costco, which costs him about a third more than diesel.

But the state fined Teixeira a thousand dollars for not paying motor fuel taxes. Officials also told him that to legally use veggie oil here he'd have to first post a 25-hundred-dollar bond.

Government is not your friend.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Mon - June 11, 2007 at 04:49 AM  Tag


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