Man ticketed $2,000 for using biofuel

[thewayne]

$1,000 from the state of North Carolina, and probably a corresponding amount from the Feds. I've always thought that vehicle tax should be based on the number of miles you drive: have a safety inspection every year, mileage is recorded, a tax bill is sent out. This is definitely going to be a problem for biofuel users bcause those gasoline/diesel tax dollars are very important to the state coffers and highway maintenance funds.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/599471.html

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[thedragonweaver.livejournal.com]

Must have been E-470. The good part about that road is that they have, in fact, been retiring the tool booths as the cost of the original construction is paid off, so eventually that will be a free route. With any luck the switchover will happen in the middle of a housing slump so there isn't an immediate explosion of suburbia.