Read this before you use alternative fuels

[Courtesy Flush]

"State makes big fuss over local couple's vegetable oil car fuel By HUEY FREEMAN - Herald & Review Staff Writer

DECATUR - David and Eileen Wetzel don't get going in the morning quite as early as they used to.

So David Wetzel, 79, was surprised to hear a knock on the door at their eastside home while he was still getting dressed.

Two men in suits were standing on his porch.

"They showed me their badges and said they were from the Illinois Department of Revenue," Wetzel said. "I said, 'Come in.' Maybe I shouldn't have."

Gary May introduced himself as a special agent. The other man, John Egan, was introduced as his colleague. May gave the Wetzels his card, stating that he is the senior agent in the bureau of criminal investigations.

"I was afraid," Eileen Wetzel said. "I came out of the bathroom. I thought: Good God, we paid our taxes. The check didn't bounce."

The agents informed the Wetzels that they were interested in their car, a 1986 Volkswagen Golf, that David Wetzel converted to run primarily from vegetable oil but also partly on diesel...."

http://www.herald-review.com/articles/2007/03/01/news/local_news/1021491.txt

[BlackVelvet04]

1. Well, shit.....

is there anything we can do that the government doesn't butt into?

[piedmont]

2. What a bunch of goons!

The revenue bureaucrats should be fired for wasting taxpayer money on this.

[napi21]

3. I HOPE some good & ethical attorney will offer to represent this guy pro bono!

I question the legality of the IDR doing this. Unless some new law was passed, and that doesn't seem likely since the legislators don't know about it, I can't imagine any law statinganyone has to be licensed or pay taxes on USED FRYING OIL! I think these AH's are floating a balloonin hopes that the people they attack are so intimidated, they'll just pay the damn tax.

This is just another way some nut at the tax office think they found to get a few extra $$!

I really hope they guy doesn't give in to them!

[AlCzervik]

4. The Il. Dept of Revenue has nothing else to do, no big tax cheats to check on?

[HCE SuiGeneris]

5. Unbelievable. Have to love "our" government. Always looking out for

the citizen's best interests. :wtf: