Exactly. I never understand people wanting to evade taxes and stuff....do you not want to improve public services and roads etc..? Europeans pay oodles of taxes compared to us, and they get free healthcare, college, schooling, beautiful roads, excellent public places and services....etc....in the USA no-one thinks that way, its all a gimme-gimme-greedy society.

I bought a trailer last year from a guy for $250........he says to me...I can put like $75 on here (on our invoice/receipt thing) so you don't pay so much on the taxes.....I said "I'll HONESTLY pay all the taxes on this, not necessary." He looked stunned and just wrote the $250 on there. Just an ordinary guy, his little kids were playing in the next room. Hey kids, dad's a criminal!

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-diesel is not just a fuel, its a way of life-
'15 GLK250 Bluetec 118k - mine - (OC-123,800)
'17 Metris(VITO!) - 37k - wifes (OC-41k)
'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)

So much for Hillary Clinton or Barrack Obama!

So much for any system of government.

I can certainly see Forced's point of view on taxes, especially living in Federal Heights as he does . . .

but leaving the legalities aside,

how much "mixing" does it take to blend the veggie oil with whatever else you are using as fuel? I'd like to be able to pour five or ten gallons of VO directly into, say, half a tank of biodiesel and let it "mix itself." But I don't want the VO to lay there like a cheapoburger in the pit of my stomach and give the car heartburn.

Incidentally, all of our diesels have been on B100 for many miles so any petro-crud that might be loosened has already been loosened, IMHO.

Jeremy

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"Buster" in the '95

Our all-Diesel family
1996 E300D (W210) . .338,000 miles Wife's car
2005 E320 CDI . . 113,000 miles My car
Santa Rosa population 176,762 (2022)
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . 627,762
"Oh lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz."
-- Janis Joplin, October 1, 1970

November 2008 is coming and I sure miss Senator Barry Goldwater!

I ran a 70% veg, 20% diesel 10% RUG mix a couple years ago for an entire tank, and it ran happily off it.....probably wasn't good for the motor though.

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-diesel is not just a fuel, its a way of life-
'15 GLK250 Bluetec 118k - mine - (OC-123,800)
'17 Metris(VITO!) - 37k - wifes (OC-41k)
'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)

VO will re-introduce it back into the engine! Biodiesel does not have glycerin in it.

I'd be more inclined to feel sorry for the state getting cheated out of their valuable road-fixing tax money if I saw any real repairs being done on the roads in the vicinity from which I paid the taxes. Everywhere I go there's disrepair.

My road tax money is going to hire more state troopers to suck more money (and happiness) out of my life.

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~Michael S.~
Past cars:

1986 300SDL
1987 300SDL
1982 240D
1982 300SD


Current:

1987 300SDL

Uh, folks, the FEDERAL part of the fuel taxes is supposed to be spent on renewal/repair of federal highways. However, thanks to the John Kennedy administration back in the sixties, by convincing congress to spend any and all revenues (social security used to be stand alone from the general revenue, to be spent only on SS benefits) however they wanted, established a prescedent. Now any and all revenues are spent however they want. So now your "road use" taxes are spent on whatever pork barrel project is in vogue. MOST state road projects rely on some form of federal matching funds as most roads are rated both federal and state. Therefore no federal matching funds, no state road repair.

Several years back here in TEXAS, the Federal Dept. of Transport was gonna stop funds from coming back from Warshingtun, fer road rebuilding/repair because TEXAS was not enforcing the 55 mph speed limit enough to suit the federalies. Gubernator at the time as Dubya, I think. Told the feds to jest go ahead and withhold funds iffen they wanted to. Cept, since the state collected the funds in the first place and forwarded the fed portion to Warshingtun, that they (the Feds) should be prepared to collect such taxes themselves and not rely on the state fer the service. When faced with yet another bureau (or 50 such bureaus) that they would have to enact, and the resulting public uproar, the Feds backed off. Gest another blow for states rights fer ya information. And TEXAS is an unruly State. See, we are the only state that was a whole nuther country before joinin th Union.

Regards

Run-Em

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1983 300SD - SPARKY THE DIESEL
2004 Audi TT 3.2 Quattro Roadster
1999 SLK - aka - LIL RED
1956 Chevy Nomad - aka - REAL MAD
1940 Ford dbl dr. Deluxe - aka - ORANGE U GLAD
1998 Kawasaki Nomad bike --

You apparently haven't driven in N. VA. Here, they take OUR tax money and spend it on roads for the lower, less-heavily-populated areas of VA. Our roads up here are too small, too few, and too poorly maintained. Screw the frigging road taxes!

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OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

nah i don't think he is a criminal... there is no reason we should pay taxes on vehicles (or trailers) every time they are bought or sold.... the same for houses... the Gov't are the gimme-gimme's here

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-Trevor

OBK #12
1980 300SD 333,XXX miles - Totaled
1986 Mazda RX-7 212,XXX miles - impounded and auctioned off
2005 Jeep Liberty CRD Limited 33,000- SEGR, Provent, Fumoto

There sure is an awful lot of money going to "road repair and improvement" but roads and bridges everywhere are falling apart. That "tire disposal fee" you pay whenever you get new tires is "supposed" to be going towards road & bridge improvement. I'm a Jersey transplant to Texas, and for the most part, the roads here aren't really better than Jersey which is a big surprise. I figured with less frost-heaving and salt, they'd be light years better but Texas, like Jersey, seems to be under perpetual construction.

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Sharing my partner's 2012 Forte 5dr SX til I find my next 123 or 126..
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Do I miss being a service advisor ???

Looks like Daddy is a criminal after all.

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99 ML320
94 SL600
92 SL500
95 E320 Cabriolet
87 560SEC
86 300SDL Grease Car
80 380SLC Euro

13 Fiat Abarth
02 Maserati Spyder Cambiocorsa
00 BMW Z3
90 Rolls Royce Silver Spur
80 Ferrari 308 GTSI
88 Jaguar XJS12 H&E Edition
99 Land Rover Discovery

I applaud the honesty of those who want to hand over every cent the government wants to suck, however I believe the thieves are the ones in charge of spending our hard earned taxes. Also lets not forget who and what we are funding by buying more petro in the first place.

As for burning store bought VO I believe you are being taxed on that as well so whats the problem?

I have been running mixtures as high as 80% WVO in the summer and 50/50 in the winter for the last 2 yrs without problems. The amount of money I save on fuel I could afford to replace my car every year and still come out ahead!

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83 TD wagon "Madge" PO's given name. 410k (150k engine)

Amen Brother!!!!

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John Schroader
bio burnin' 83 300D, '83 300 SD, '79 240D
"I've never met a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else" Ben Franklin
"You cannot permanently help a man by doing for him what he could and should do for himself" Abraham Lincoln