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Trust me, if you're paying taxes, you're getting screwed by a-holes who just piss away money on BS stuff. They just built a firehouse down here and they put in $150k in decorative stones. Feed the poor or put a roof over a homeless family, F no, we needed those decorations! I have no trouble sleeping at night just trying to save myself a few bucks.
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I will add this tip. If you are going to screw around with diesel fuel stay out of southern Illinois you will get caught they sit at stations, truck stops and other places regularlly. Here in IL it is 10,000 for getting caught plus additional fines based on how many gallons of storage you have. There was another thread on here about using cooking oil about a month or so ago this is basically the same thing. The government does not take kindly to stealing tax dollars.
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Two wrongs don't make a right Casey. Try telling the Highway Patrol that it you were screwed when they put those decorative stones in, so you should be able to run illegal fuel in your truck, and see how far it gets you. Where do you draw the line on trying to "save a buck" the illegal way? Are you going to start stealing stuff from Walmart or rob a bank? They screw you over too with the outrageous markups and interest rates they charge.
Fact of the matter is, those few bucks saved on diesel fuel is not going to be the complete answer to your financial worries, you and me both are going to still have trouble sleeping at night. If you want to save money on the Bristol trip, go to the grocery store and buy steaks to grill and your own beer on Friday night rather than going out to eat at a steakhouse and spending $75. You'll save $55 right there. By the way, Scott mentioned to me that one of the three times he's been pulled over to check his tag weight they also checked his diesel too, so he's been checked twice. And with the rising diesel prices you can only expect more people to try and save a buck or two, thus more fuel checks in our future. But hey, some people are lucky as hell in that respect, they never get caught. Us, we so much as think about it and we're going to jail. Good luck with it |
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On the ILINOIS cops checking the diesel fuel, i,ve been to cattle sales, farm sales ect. were they set -up and check the tanks here, seen a few take off througt the cornfields to avoid the check, it,s gonna get worse............
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Angela, I don't have any finiacial problems, I stay within my means. I have a gas powered vehicle, so I can't screw with the fuel. I was only telling people who want to try the fuel that there is an alternative. Like I said in the previous treads, down here in Florida we don't have home heating oil, so the highway patrol that I've seen, don't check the fuel. Also, in a pickup truck, you don't have to stop for scales on the highways.
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That's great that you're staying within your means, I only hope you're doing so the honest way. Again, telling us how to screw with the fuel can only make one wonder how far someone would go to save that buck or two. But what do I care what you do, I'm going to the races with legal fuel and having that peice of mind that WHEN we get pulled over, because it will happen, that all is going to be fine when they check our fuel. In fact, I bet you that before the year if over that we will get pulled over to have our fuel checked.
Just because you don't have to stop at the scales doesn't mean the DMV isn't going to pull you over anyways. Like I said, they've pulled Scott over pulling the trailer three times. They just checked the weight of his tag - but they did have the option to pull out their scales and make him weigh. |
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Around my neck of the woods we mix used atf and or 10% used crankcase oil with the before mentioned filtration. Works great,.Any way to avoid the $4.60 per. I am currently working on a hydrogen booster to add to it.
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