Hello Jed, First of all, I would personally like to thank you for being a voice of reason on this forum.
My concern is that energy is taxed heavily right now, and the powers that be will try to find some way to make up for the lost revenue. I think there are many ways they could go about this. Here are a few possibilities. 1) They could try to put a tax on every E-Cat unit sold. For example, they could claim the energy savings are so great having an E-Cat to provide electricity, heat in winter, and hot water that a 90% sales tax on units would be acceptable. Their argument would be, "The average family of four will save ten thousand dollars in the first five years of owning an E-Cat unit. After that, their energy costs will be near zero. Due to this, a $4,500 dollar tax on a $5,000 dollar unit is acceptable." 2) They could try to tax every vehicle that uses the E-Cat. They could state, "Since we are losing revenue from taxes on gasoline, we will need to add an upfront tax on every E-Cat powered vehicle. Otherwise, we will not be able to pay to maintain the roads." What is even more scary than an upfront tax, would be if they demanded some sort of GPS tracking device on every vehicle monitoring the miles driven, and hence the energy consumed! Consumers could then get a bill in the mail for lets say $1.00 for every mile driven. 3) They could add an extra tax on every electric bill. Although I think home based E-Cats will be sold, the power grid will probably be augmented with E-Cat units. Although the price of the electricity could go down, the government might step in and use that as an excuse to raise taxes. You could end up paying a special E-Cat tax per kilowatt hour of power consumed. I really do hope you are right, and the government will not try to tax the energy produced by E-Cats. However, with an increasingly out of control government I think they will at least try. ________________________________ From: Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, May 10, 2011 6:51:50 AM Subject: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Steam hotter than 110 °C / Internal heater noone noone wrote: I think the NRC can try, but it will not last long. > >I am a bit more concerned about the powers that be trying to tax the >energy produced to high heaven. > It would be difficult to do this, because the energy will eventually be generated on site by small machines. To tax it you would have to meter it, and meters can always be disabled. People occasionally reset odometers in automobiles to enhance the resale value of a used car. This is against the law. They do not do this often because there's not much point to it; it does not increase resale value much. On the other hand, when the odometer breaks people seldom bother to fix it. I'm sure that if the government started taxing heat and electricity from home generators, millions of consumers would cut a few wires or download a patch for the control electronics computer to report false readings. The government would soon find this untenable. (I have thought about stuff like this!) - Jed
