[Vwdiesel] [Fwd: [altfuelfurnace] MEMBERWIDE ANNOUNCMENT: Illinois IRS hassling elderly couple for veg oil use]

[James Hansen]

I think Mark meant to send this:



Subject:
[altfuelfurnace] MEMBERWIDE ANNOUNCMENT: Illinois IRS hassling elderly 
couple for veg oil use
From:
jessejames49us <studio53 at sbcglobal.net>
Date:
Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:48:07 +0000
To:
altfuelfurnace at yahoogroups.com

MEMBERWIDE ANNOUNCMENT:  Illinois IRS hassling elderly couple for veg 
oil use

State makes big fuss over local couple's vegetable oil car fuel.

Illinois state article on IRS harassment

or

http://www.heraldandreview.com/articles/2007/03/01/news/local_news/1021491.txt

It isn't hard to extrapolate from this article that if Illinois state 
IRS agents targeted this elderly couple for collecting waste veg oil for 
their auto, then they are similarly interested in anyone collecting and 
hauling oil for any purpose, such as using it as alternative home 
heating oil fuel. And let me stress the word "alternative home heating 
oil."  So it is a two-fold IRS attack on this couple: one for hauling 
the oil out of the restaurant and the other as a road-use fuel tax.

State Sen. Frank Watson, R-Greenville, introduced Senate Bill 267, which 
would curtail government interference regarding alternative fuels, such 
as vegetable oil. A public hearing on the bill was held last Thursday at 
the state Capitol. Anybody local know what happened or can find out?

It would be beneficial to follow the progress and hopefully, the 
eventual success of it getting approved thro