From: Bill Kealey (cwkealey@atlanticbb.net)
Date: Thu Oct 07 2004 - 08:31:50 PDT
Depending on the jurisdiction and quality of the law enforcement, judges and
attornys you should be able to beat this, I would think. Common sense (not
usually applicable in a court of law) would say that even if you owned the
truck and used it exclusively on a farm, never on the highway and it was
legal for you to use non taxed fuel that if you changed your mind one day
and switched to using the vehicle on tghe highway ... using taxed fuel you
should be able to make this understood to a judge. Hopefully the details
outlined above would be enough to keep you from getting to the point of
having to appear in court.
But, back to the real world ... I think that if you keep receipts for the
fuel purchased and miles driven in the truck you should be able to beat the
charges should they arise. As long as you can prove that you are not still
buying the untaxed fuel and using it from time to time.
You may have trouble convincint the authorities of your good intentions if
you continue to bounce back and forth with fuel fill ups saying that today
the truck is a farm truck so untaxed fuel can be used then tomorrow saying
it is being used on the highway so the fuel should be taxed that is being
used and the following day going back to untaxed.
Hope this seems reasonable.
Bill K.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Martin" <mung@in-touch.net>
> Ed, heres a situation that needs an answer (in my mind)...lets say that
> you bought an M-35 from someone and he ran it on a farm and used the red
> dyed fuel...and they check you and find the tell-tale signs of it in
> your exhaust. Could you eliminate it from your exhaust by using a brush
> and scrubbing the carbon out? Just an interesting scenario. Fred Martin
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