3-7-07 How To Get Screwed

There's a whole bunch of people out there who are running their diesel cars on vegetable oil. They can get lots of free vegetable oil from the back doors of restaurants that use vegetable oil to fry food in. The waste vegetable oil that the restaurants used to pay someone to haul away and dispose of can now be taken away for free. And the people who take it away for free can use it to run the diesel engines in their cars. Everybody makes out, everybody wins.

Right?

It was just too good to be true... Apparently, it's too good to be true in Illinois where David Wetzel, 79, is currently being drawn and quartered by the Illinois Department of Revenue for failing to pay motor fuel taxes, operating without some kind of fuel "license", ordered to pay a $2500 bond, and as if that isn't enough, he's threatened with felony charges by these storm troopers.

It's all just another lesson in how to get screwed by the government... if you do something where everybody comes out ahead, the government thugs will show up sooner or later to demand their cut.