"Harryk" wrote in message
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On 1/29/11 1:49 PM, Tim wrote:
On Jan 29, 12:33 pm, wrote:
On 1/29/11 1:28 PM, Tim wrote:

With the crisis in Egypt pushing oil futures up, and 'talk' of $5.00 a
gallon gas, I was wondering why you couldnt' make your own?

I mean, to a limit you can brew your own beer, and beer with no
regulation or restrictions (except for quantity). So why can't a
person make their own small refinery? i have friends who work at a
refinery and they say that the process isn't really that difficult and
in my area we have lots of oil wells. so.........

another thing. for recreational boating, why can't we be exempt from
paying highway taxes on gas?

hmmmm?

I'll leave the production of gasoline to the crackers* but when I was a
kid in Connecticut, you could get a refund on road taxes for gas used in
your boat. My dad gave specially printed receipt books to his
customers...they filled them out and sent them in for the refund. I
sorta recall the gas station operator had to sign and stamp the
receipts, but maybe not.

This was when gasoline was 20 cents a gallon at the local gas station,
and a nickel more at the marina.

I dont' think that for recreational boating, Illinois has such a
provision. though. unless you've got some type of commercial license.




* crackers...those who know how to "crack" petroleum.

i knew what you meant.. "Catylist" or "Cat cracker"


I don't know that Connecticut still refunds road taxes for gas used in
boats. I know it did in the 1950s and at least part of the 1960s.

We used to have the 'marked' (dyed) gas here for commercial fishermen. I
haven't heard about that in years.