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To: JDN who wrote (227619)	11/11/2007 8:33:04 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793782

Some states are going after people using alternative fuel for not paying the proper tax. It's a stretch, the tax is supposed to be only for diesel and gasoline, but that isn't stopping them from putting the arm on people....

To: JDN who wrote (227619)	11/11/2007 4:00:04 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793782

Good for him..mechanics are so darned inventive. In 1968 my father was on a very weird adventure claiming that he wanted to travel to abandoned military bases in the south pacific to recover scrap iron from WW2. We all knew that he just wanted to be that sea traveler that was a great part of his heart and soul. He hired a crew out of Honolulu and took off in his 100' schooner hulled ship. He found himself running low on fuel at one point of the trip and ended up finding 50 gal barrels of kerosene left over from the war on one of the outer Solomon Islands, which sufficed and helped him make it to Bougainville Island and some real diesel. I was privileged to have traveled the first leg of the trip from Seattle via SF to Hawaii. The story of having to shackle the cook to a bunk in the focsal until they could throw him overboard near some desolate Island because he was throwing stores overboard (God told him to do it) is a doozey too.