Hi all, I wanted to clear up something in an older post here: it was a post about the status of the EPA position on small producers. IN the end of this, was the following email from Tom Leue. If I am not mistaken, the story related below (told by Graham Noyes of World Enegy) was never substantiated. I believe I asked him onlist (he was participating at the time) at one point what organization he was talking about, and others have said that they've asked about it too.
Last year I recieved a copy of this same exact email from graham, coming from his World Energy email account, so presumably it was an official coommunication. He had accidentaly gotten my and other locals' email addresses from us all being CC'd on a private email concerning a local gas station biodiesel campaign- and he sent this around, though it wasn't particularly relevant to the issue we were working on. This email then led to a lot of panic in our area. This was during the time when the Welsh SVO driver Fry Squad scandal was in the news (welsh svoers being stopped and fined by their local police for tax evasion for using svo). Locally in the Bay Area, the story about the Welsh drivers was making a lot of svo'ers nervous, and many of them were confused about where it was happening (various misinformation went out over various local channels, saying that it happened in san francisco, or australia... we americans were never good at geography). Right then the World Energy communication hit, and rumors of our impending crackdown spread like wildfire. It seems to me that unless I missed something, that Graham Noyes never substantiated this story, though many people asked him about it. Since this has been accidentally re-posted, I would like to either correct this rumor for the archives, or find out who the heck he was talking about, because I'm worried about the same set of rumors going out when people read the otherwise very timely post this World Energy bit was connected to.... mark > >>--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > Here is a communication from World Energy about > >> > government actions against > >> > one of the few biodiesel producers in the Northeast. > >> > Be forwarned. > >> > > >> > Snip> > >> > We run into a lot of small producers who are trying > >> > to do the right thing, > >> > but I would be remiss if I did not warn about the > >> > severity of cutting corners > >> > from an IRS or EPA standpoint. > >> > > >> > > >> > Any biodiesel producer or seller needs to understand > >> > that any biodiesel used > >> > (not sold)as fuel in an on-road vehicle is subject > >> > to on-road tax. We have a > >> > number of producers around the country who do not > >> > want to deal with the tax, > >> > and sell it tax exempt. This fuel does often end up > >> > in peoples vehicles. Just > >> > as you and I pay tax at the pump, it is the user who > >> > is ultimately > >> > responsible for road tax. > >> > > >> > > >> > We just had a small producer in another state in a > >> > similar situation. They > >> > own a number of diesel vehicles and have been using > >> > it for about a year. They > >> > were just hit with bill for $0.31/gallon State > >> > excise tax plus penalties and > >> > interest for every gallon they have produced. In > >> > addition, since the fuel was > >> > used in on-road vehicles, the Federal Government can > >> > (and most likely will) > >> > fine up to $10.00/gallon for every gallon used. The > >> > organization in Maine is > >> > a non-profit agency and is therefore tax exempt. > >> > They also do not sell any > >> > fuel to te outside world. > >> > > >> > > >> > Many of these small producers are yet to realize how > >> > sad the ending may be. I > >> > don't mean to sound rude or abrupt, but the tax > >> > consequences can be quite > >> > severe. I have already seen it happen once. I think > >> > we will see it happen > >> > again. > >> > > >> > > > > > >Biofuels at Journey to Forever >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html >Biofuel at WebConX >http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm >List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: >http://archive.nnytech.net/ >To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Lj3uPC/Me7FAA/uetFAA/9bTolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
