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Monkey Butt
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Interestingly enough, just today on the 5:00 news there was a story on cigarette bootlegging from Missouri into Illinois and how they are cracking down on it, posting signs and levying fines and seizing vehicles. You can cross into IL with no more than 5 cartons at a time.
What is to stop a trucker from filling up in a lower tax state before crossing into a higher tax one?
When they stop at a weigh station they have to show they bought fuel in that state or pay a fee. I've never driven an interstate hauler so I'm not that familiar with the procedure. Perhaps a trucker could enlighten us, come on.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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Good thing they haven't figured out a way to put a state stamp on gasoline...... yet 
Actually they have. It is possible to place additives into the gas that can be detected even after the fuel is burnt.
I saw a TV show (CSI or something) where they used tracers to determine where the gas came from. Not sure if the actually do that or not, but speaking as a chemist, it is possible.
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Good thing they haven't figured out a way to put a state stamp on gasoline...... yet
Actually they have. It is possible to place additives into the gas that can be detected even after the fuel is burnt.
I saw a TV show (CSI or something) where they used tracers to determine where the gas came from. Not sure if the actually do that or not, but speaking as a chemist, it is possible.
They also put dye in off road fuel. If the revenuers check your tanks and the fuel contains any dye you're busted. If you put a few gallons of dyed fuel into a large tank of undyed fuel, the entire tank is now dyed and allowable only for off road use.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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Off road (farm) gas here is purple in colour. I used to buy it by the barrel back in my bush days. Never was checked on the highway for what kinda gas I used but it stained the carb so woulda been easy to detect.
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Tom,
I said absolutely nothing about all cops being corrupt, most are just average Joe's doing there jobs, im just saying ****** happens, more than you think and if it were you sitting in jail wrongfully you would be wishing it were a TV show.
They are harder on everybody than they used to be, especially kids...that really was my point
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Fe Butt
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Too bad things are like they are now. When I grew up the chief of police also worked at the local gas station/gen. store/gun shop/bar (yes it was all of those and had to walk through the gun shop to get to the bar in the back. The only other officer worked at the local car wash. They used to pick me up hitch hiking and give me a ride. When they caught you for something minor the first time they let you go and told you they better not catch you doing that again. If you got caught again then your own stupidity got you in trouble. A little weed would be no big deal and at worst they would make you dump it out, speeding you would probably get a warning as long as you didn't make a habit of it or going insanely fast or try and run when they hit the lights. They were just regular guys not like the super trooper wannabes we have these days. I understand why they are like that since there is so much more violence toward cops now but some take it too far on an innocent person.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
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Fe Butt
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I understand why they are like that since there is so much more violence toward cops now....
...and in sports(like the U.F.C. for instance), and in movies(need I list those here?!), and in music(or what often passes as "music" nowdays anyway), and on TV(once again, need I list these programs?!), and in....well....life in general nowdays!!!
(kind'a funny ain't it...I mean, since corporal punishment has been frowned upon as an avenue towards child rearing in America, because it supposedly "only teached the wrong message to children about violence", this country now seems OBSESSED with violence!...like I said, kind'a "funny", or maybe "ironic", ain't it?!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Re: Going to file a complaint today....
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Oh yeah....I forgot to mention...video games. Yeah, how could I forget THAT "enlightening pastime" most of the yutes out there play soooooo often today, HUH?! ("So tell me little Johnny, how many people have you blown away with your shoulder-mounted gatling gun in that there little game you're playin' there, huh?!" Sorry, little Johnny, I didn't mean to distract your attention here! Just keep firin' away, you little b*stard! Daddy must be MUCH too busy with his own affairs to GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY CATCH WITH YOU TODAY, so you're NOT FIFTY or more FRIGGIN' POUNDS OVERWEIGHT!!!") 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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