Saying Hello!

[lincolninked]

The pic is Claudia Schrieffer.  Need I say more!  I had my picture there till I obtained a stalker here.  I needed that like a hole in the head, so I backed off and removed my photograph.  The net is such a weird place, don't you think?

The F-550 is not going 100% hho.  Do you think I am crazy?

Reasons to keep diesel and or gasoline fuel close by are:

1: Illegal to operate on public roads without publicly taxed fuels on-board as your primary fuel source.  Jail has never seen me and hope to keep it that way.
2: Men in black tend to show up where there is something very interesting going on.  Running an automobile on 100% water is very interesting.  As men in black scare the he*^ out of me, I am not going there.
3:  100% hho is hard on normal engines.  You can go 80/20 or 70/30 or 60/40 (taxed fuels/hho) and see no long term damages to a normal engine. Going beyond that will create problems with parts deterioration beyond what could be expected with typical road fuels.
4:  People die or turn up missing that create 100% water based fuels or 200 mpg carbs.  I have no wish to turn room temperature anytime soon. Do they die as a result of the people mentioned in rule number one or rule number two, I do not care. 

It appears if all you invent is a water device to extend the fill-up rate you get from one service station to another, no red flags go up and everyone leaves you alone.

I like being left alone.   

[keithturtle]

Paying taxes directly might be an answer, according to my contact in the trucking industry.   Apparently, he said y'all can cipher up the miles driven, figger how much fuel ya woulda used and jes pay the tax without buying the diesel (and paying the oil cartel).   Something about bulk diesel kept at the terminal.

Oregon had a house bill that would equip hi-mileage cars (Prius, etc) with a GPS tracker that would rat out the miles driven once a month.  If yer fuel bill wasn't high enough, they'd send a bill fer what they thought y'all oughta pay to drive on their dang "publically financed" highways.   I dunno if it passed or not.

Jes run it and keep track of the fuel you didn't buy; that way y'all can tag a dollar amount and pay the money-grubbing tax-grabber.   But anyhow, the roads need supported one way or t'other.

Guess y'all know how I feel about taxes, now.

BTW, that paints a picture of the magnanimous social upheaval this technology could precipitate, once it becomes viable and widespread... jes a thought.

Turtle

[Aphasiac]

@Turtle: I think you're on the money there. Whether the idea of paying taxes excites you or not, its gotta be done. One of your founding fathers once said, "In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."  Fast forward 250 years and... surprise, surprise!

Transportation officials are known to be pretty good at generating numbers for the guys who accidentally burn colored diesel, at least in my region. I'm hearing of cases popping-up before a judge now, in recent months.  If you're smart, you'll be ready and waiting with some defendable mileage numbers; 'cause if you don't, they'll be ready and waiting with some of their own.

This 'lil problem isn't going away. Mark my words...

--Mark. 

[Dingus Mungus]

Roads will only need upkeep untill we FINALLY get our flying cars.
LOL! I predicted we would have them by 2010 as a child. (nope)
I've never even considered the tax angle of this technology.
Damn... Looks like one more way for them to shut us down when
we finally find the answer we all seek. Sounds like a good time to
reaffirm the constitutions indirrect proportional tax system.

Way better than fuel tax that way! Also I get skrewed on fuel
daily. I live in 100 degree plus Arizona. A gallon of gas here
weighs less than a gallon of gas nearly anywhere else.

::shakes fist::
Damn you thermal expansion!

~Dingus Mungus

[keithturtle]

Easy now, Dingus, relief is on the way.

The new transportaion bill addresses "hot fuel"... and codifies "68'F" as standard delivery temperature.  Pumps need to be equipped with sensors and temperature compensation metering.  The technology's there already, jes needs installed and activated (=$!$).

Soon y'all will indeed be getting what y'all pay fer...

Back to the tax issue, it ain't a matter of shutting us down.   This time we got Kyoto and all the greenie tree huggers on our side.   Schools teach Gaiya [sp?] (mother earth) worship as a primary  curriculum, so a generation of tree-huggin' teens are out there as well.   I'm in the environmental business (water treatment) so that puts me on the front line also.   Society will find a way to adapt.  It always does.  We might not like it, but it'll happen.

When new technology proves itself, the dinosaurs will have to move over.   Just remember that we owe the oil companies a huge debt... without their recent price antics, many of us might not even be on this board trying to solve the problem.

Turtle