Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 12:21:45 -0600
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From: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: Anybody burning WVO in Illinois?
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This is really a story about butt-head bureaucrats in a butt-headed
bureaucracy in a butt-headed government.
If you look around, government has gone amok. Taxing of waste oils used
for personal use, imprisonment of Border Patrol Agents trying to do
theirs jobs to the best of their ability, politicians get away with
graft and corruption, etc. The list goes on and on and on and on. It is
maddening.
Reason and restraint has gone out the window and a bureaucratic ideology
has taken it's place that says every aspect of life must be regulated,
and most of that regulation must generate dollars to support the
bureaucracy. So when anyone comes up with something that is going to be
either "non-contributing" or take away tax dollars, the bureaucracy is
going to get all excited and and step to the bar and put a stop to it or
find a way to force it to produce tax revenue. This is a problem all the
way from the top of federal government all the way down. It is about
producing revenue. Ever wonder how the"Limbo" dance got started??
---some poor sap in days gone by didn't have the quarter to get into the
pay toilet in NYC, so he cheated. Danced right under that toilet stall
door. The state just might have sent the revenue agents after him, had
they known. So a great many people do their thing in private, and don't
tell the world, that the rest of us may benefit, but keep it to
themselves, lest they get penalized. Word of the Limbo did get out,
though. But by the time the Revenue folks found out, it was too late and
had become to much of the pubnlic domain to be able to tax it.
When it comes to fuels - the oil industry DOES NOT want any
alternatives. To change is going to cost billions - in new
infrastructure, as well as reduced profits because the money they will
have to pay for the new infrastructure, and the government will not be
getting it's share. There is a huge resistance to changing the fueling
of America. It has to come, but both private, public, and government
sectors are all concerned about the financial impact on their respective
wallets.
Sorry for the rant, but this struck a nerve.
Now passing the soapbox to the next "speaker"!
Regards,
]
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
Robert Fisher wrote:
> http://www.herald-review.com/articles/2007/03/01/news/local_news/1021491.txt
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> Cya,
> Robert
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