Ah ha, so you would be opposed to anyone being able to drive on public roads
on a fuel they get themselves somehow, rather than through the normal
infrastructure ? 
Like they are cheating the system.
There is merit to that argument of course. 
Fuel tax is 'fair' in a way,  since it reflects actual use.  ( and we won't
even mention that if you're a CEO at 600,000 , or 5 million a year, $
3/gallon costs nothing compared to what it costs for a guy working at
McDonalds - never mind that factor for now  ) .

I am extremely opposed to toll booths for two main reasons - 
One, the traffic jams they cause and stopping and accelerating again, I
guestimate waste roughly a  million gallons of gas a day in the US.
Secondly...............no one notices the tooth takers standing there
breathing car fumes 40 hours a week ? Who is going to be paying for their
lung cancer or other diseases after a career of that ???   -  talk about
dysfunction human behavior - and I'm not talking about the people taking the
tolls, I'm talking about who creates those jobs. 
If there are to be any tolls, electronic scanning it is the only way.
The people-hours and fuel wasted by toll booths is just a silly joke and
huge waste. 
I knew when I was 6 years old that everyone commuting to work at the same
time was stupid.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Allan Streib
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 8:58 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Taxing eclectic fuels

On Dec 7, 2007, at 7:36 PM, Scott Daniel - Shazam wrote:

> There's a guy in south or north Carolina who might be in big
> trouble with
> his state treasury dept or whomever, for doing veggie conversions
> to diesel
> cars and not paying road fuel tax, something like that.
> Crazy, no ?

Why should he get a "free ride" on the public roads when everyone
else has to pay?  As taxes go, fuel taxes to fund roads and highways
seems pretty fair (assuming that they are set aside as such, I know
that in some (many?) cases fuel taxes just go into the general
fund).  What's the alternative?  Toll booths everywhere?

Allan