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Date:         Fri, 9 Mar 2007 12:21:45 -0600
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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From:         John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject:      Re: Anybody burning WVO in Illinois?
Comments: To: Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
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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 > > Cya, > Robert > > >


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