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Growing up here in B.C., Canada (and I'm assuming the rest of the country) marine, farm, and aviation fuels did not have road taxes applied and as a result were less expensive to purchase. These fuels, much like the different grades of car fuel, were identified by color as dyes were added. If you were caught with marine or farm fuel in your licenced road vehicle you could be fined. It is in essence a form of tax evasion I suppose.
Over the years the public just seemed to become oblivious to the pricing structure of marine fuels in particular and began accepting increases in those prices until they were at parity (or sometimes higher) than posted prices on road gas that included all sorts of additional transit and road taxes. I'm sure I could find out with some digging, but I'm not even sure marine or farm fuel is available any longer? As a kid in the eighties, even though the local marina on the lake I spent my summers at sold 'marine' fuel (green/blue as I recall), we still paid the extra bucks per litre for 94 octane (purple) Chevron fuel for our thirsty 327 Crusader and lugged it down to the dock in 5 gallon jugs each time the old runabout needed more to drink. Loved the purple gas! At that time, if you wanted to buy the less expensive marine gas at the marina it had to go in the boat, not gerry cans. I presumed this was to ensure it didn't find it's way into road vehicles. Ryan Hill 1965 Chrysler 300 1968 Dodge Charger 1959 17' Twin Cockpit Runabout To: rfmelton@xxxxxxx; chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: Chrysler300-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 09:38:03 -0800 Subject: RE: [Chrysler300] Ethanol-exempt vehicles? To All:
As I recall from my childhood. My uncle had a farm in Kansas. On his farm, he had a large (maybe 200 or more gallon) fuel tank built on a raised 15 - 20 foot high platform for gravity feed into his tractors. When he needed to refill the tank, he called into town and a distributor would send out a tanker truck to fill the tank with “real leaded” gasoline. Remember this was back in the 1950’s.
Now since this fuel was intended for use in his farm vehicles (tractors, Combines, etc.) that were technically never used on paved roads, just out in the fields. There was never any tax paid on this fuel. I am sure that the government has changed all of that today, well before the Ethanol Scam.
From Big John Mc Adams (In 80 degree SoCal) (Will gladly trade heat for rain)
From: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ray Melton rfmelton@xxxxxxx [Chrysler300]
If older farm vehicles can be exempted from using ethanol-contaminated gasoline, is there any reason that our older pre-ethanol 300's can't get a similar exemption? Or is that just another perk our wonderful government has bestowed upon (bribed) the farmers who will grow the virtually inedible variety of corn used to make ethanol? Ray Melton Las Cruces, NM On 3/5/2015 3:10 PM, 'David Schwandt' finsruskw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [Chrysler300] wrote:
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