If I convert my car to burn old tires instead of gasoline, do I still have to pay a fuel tax? What's the rate?

Question

"State makes big fuss over local couple's vegetable oil car fuel", March 1, 2007

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

Answer 1

Yes; This high fuel price is just a load of c**p. The 'wise' people on the top try to stop you using too much petroleum because they think it is limited. They are masters and you have to pay them.

To burn the tires; it will cost you more ; as the system is undeveloped at the moment. I hope some creative people will get together to develop a technology to burn-use tires. The system on wide-use is always becomes efficient by research.

Answer 2

This high fuel price is just a load of c**p. It comes to supply and demand. If demand is high the price goes up. All things in life work this way. That counts for the farmers aswell. When they don't get good prices for there maize they produce less and thus force the price to go up. Simple really is it.

Answer 3

Well, you and your car demand traffic control signals, traffic law enforcement, bridges, tunnels, fancy limited-access roads, properly-paved local roadways, good signage on those roads, and a host of other tax-supported stuff that you always thought was free.  

It's not free, and if the money doesn't come from fuel taxes it'll have to come from something like a road-usage tax, which would likely mean a state-sealed and monitored odometer on your beloved vehicle. They'd check how far you'd driven and charge accordingly, and also send your reading into the Federal government, who would send you another bill.  

Or were you planning to build your own interstate highway, perhaps?

Answer 4

I think that these people are going about the issue wrong.  You should not have to pay any tax if your car uses old tires instead of gasoline.

This couple was using vegetable oil.  There is no fuel tax on vegetable oil.  He cannot be taxed at the gasoline or diesel rate because he was not using either fuel.

If the Illinois legeslature REALLY wanted to protect this guy, they would have come down hard on the agents and the department of revenue for trying to collect a tax that does not exist.  Do these people go out and try to collect road taxes from people that drive electric cars?  If there is a problem with the lack of revenue, that is the problem of the Revenue department and the Government, not the fault of people who are not paying a tax that legally does not exist.  Too bad the politicians are sidesteping the issue instead of coming right out and saying the truth, that these people are being held for ransom illegally by the Illinois department of revenue.