--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Appal Energy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Todd, I'm detecting a hostile undertone that I don't quite understand the basis of. Is it my perception that is faulty? > > > > Exactly where is it that your trucker buds are getting bled dry > and other consumers of road use fuel did not? It isn't only Truckers that are being bled, but they are specifically singled out for many other taxes that other users are exempt from besides fuel and registration. Tire taxes are one of them, and 12% excise tax on all parts is another. Car and Bus owners used to pay about $3 each Federal Excise tax on tires. Car owners are now exempt from the tire tax, while the tire tax for truckers was doubled to make the difference. A Bus uses the same tires as trucks do, but are exempt from the tax. Many buses use the same engines as trucks do, but aren't subject to the 12% excise tax on all truck related parts. Batteries and brakes are also the same. My main complaint is that if trucks are to be subjected to all these taxes that others are exempt from, the money should be spent on highways that trucks use. Trucks aren't allowed on bicycle paths or airports runways. > > Personally? I'd like to see 9/10ths of the airline industry and > 3/5ths of the trucking industry out of a job as quickly as the > infrastructure can be altered without economic devastation. I am actively working on this myself, at least as far as local energy supplies are concerned. I think it is totally foolish to import nearly all of our energy, when we have so much available locally that is being disposed of. > Which > would also mean one hell of a lot of other alterations around the > global economic for about 30 years. And it would get much of the decision making back to a local level instead of being mandated by people who are thoroughly ignorant of the details. > > Again...Sorry, but you won't find me too far out of synch with > anything that promotes de-escalation of consumerism, excess > consumption, "rapid access," instant gratification and general > radical transformation of the face, waters and air of this > Earth....even if it means I won't be embroidering any more > "billboard caps" for truckers and I have to start using home > grown oil on the lap siding rather than imported Sherwin Williams > from the nearest metro center. Which goes right back to my belief that goods should be produced and used locally, instead of being imported from out of state or internationally. My immediate personal focus is on local energy use. In my immediate local area, there is an abundance of wood products being burned or hauled away to rot in a pile, while we import Coal and Natural Gas for heat and electricity, and import foreign oil for transportation fuels. Ethanol and synthetic Diesel Fuel can be produced from this resource, along with electricity from byproduct steam and heat. Politics and Bureaucracy are currently preventing me from doing any of this commercially. I have a homebuilt prototype gasifier that I ran for a couple of hours last week on waste wood. I will run it on Peat this coming week if I have time. Current use is to heat the atmosphere. I can't get Permits to connect the output to the grid. I am looking for a small water-cooled Diesel (30-40 HP)to run a generator from the gasifier output. After optimization, I intend to connect to the grid without any permits, at least to reverse meter my electrical use. Excess heat from the engine coolant and exhaust will be used for water-heating. Personal finances don't allow for a greenhouse/fermentation facility just yet, but I will have an energy source avaiable for when that time comes. Motie Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
