minimum size tank for off road fuel

[LBrown59]

So now how are you gonna get off road ?????????

There is another distributor on the way to work.

I have 2 distributers that will top off my 30 gallon drum when they are already in my area or going by my place to make deliveries even though they have a 100 to 150 gallon minuim delivery policy.

If I were you I'd be attempting to make such an arrangement with the suppliers in your area.

 

[LBrown59]

Sign on the door said no more off road at the pump.

This don't necessarily mean you can't get your drum filled there.
I can take my 30 or 50 gallon drum to all three of the distrubiters here and they will fill them for me even though they don't have tanks and pumps there.
R U sure you can't do the same thing there at that supplier?
Why did they quit selleing it at the pump.?
Can't see why they would want to lose business by sending their customer to the on road service stations.
Just don't make no sense.

 

[LBrown59]

.. * Every station that sells on-road diesel should be required, by law, to spend the money to install a *separate pump and a separate tank to sell off road diesel, regardless of how little they sell. Another on-road fuel tax will be levied to create a fund to pay for this extra equipment for stations that can't afford it.
1*and you believe it's OK to force businesses to sell a product very few of their customers want and make their other customers foot the bill for the equipment to do it.
2*Their customers are also free to shop elsewhere.
3*
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*I never suggested or implied any such thing.
1*No; but on the other hand I don't feel it's right that I'm forced to pay road tax that I do not owe due to off road being difficult if not impossible to obtain.
Why should I support the on road stations by buying their product and at the same time pay on road tax on fuel I am not using on the road?
What's rite about me footing the bill for the on roaders?
As for *seperate tanks and pumps they do that with different grades of gasoline; so why not diesel?
I think the road tax should be determined at the pump not some where else before it ever gets to the pump?
To me it's simple if it's pumped into an on road vehicle add the tax if not don't add the tax.
2*That works pretty well until the elsewheres become to few and far between or even non existent
3*

 

[MikePA]

*I never suggested or implied any such thing.
1*No; but on the other hand I don't feel it's right that I'm forced to pay road tax that I do not owe due to off road being difficult if not impossible to obtain.
Why should I support the on road stations by buying their product and at the same time pay on road tax on fuel I am not using on the road?
What's rite about me footing the bill for the on roaders?
As for *seperate tanks and pumps they do that with different grades of gasoline; so why not diesel?
I think the road tax should be determined at the pump not some where else before it ever gets to the pump?
To me it's simple if it's pumped into an on road vehicle add the tax if not don't add the tax.
2*That works pretty well until the elsewheres become to few and far between or even non existent

Perhaps you should send a letter to your congressman and senator and suggest all this. I am sure they will be intrigued at how you propose switching the price at the pump based on what kind of vehicle the fuel goes into.

 

[LBrown59]

Perhaps you should send a letter to your congressman and senator and suggest all this. I am sure they will be intrigued at how you propose switching the price at the pump based on what kind of vehicle the fuel goes into.

When i was in the housing business and was tax exempt I didn't have to buy red building materials to avoid sales tax.
I don't see the difference in that tax and the on road tax.

 

[MikePA]

When i was in the housing business and was tax exempt I didn't have to buy red building materials to avoid sales tax.
I don't see the difference in that tax and the on road tax.

Your analogy doesn't apply. The difference is how the product is delivered.

 

[LBrown59]

Your analogy doesn't apply. The difference is how the product is delivered.

Why can't it be based on how the product is used rather than on how it's delivered just like the sales tax is!

 

[MikePA]

Why can't it be based on how the product is used rather than on how it's delivered just like the sales tax is!

Simple. Buying fuel is like buying something out of a vending machine where the price is set in the machine that dispenses the product. Buying building supplies is taking something off the shelf and taking it to a cash register where they charge everyone the same price then add in the tax as appropriate. What are the fuel sellers supposed to do, go out and change the price on the pump depending on who is buying? Or maybe they should have a fuel fountain where you hand your container to a fuel jerk and before he hands it back asks, "Will that be on road or off road?" before he rings up your bill.

Some people don't think about the practical issues of implementing such a harebrained scheme when they complain 'they' should offer off road everywhere they offer on road. Since you're the one complaining, you describe how it'd work.

 

[LBrown59]

I have a 30 and a 55 gallon plastic drum plumbed into my fuel storage system.
The 30 is the main tank and the 55 gallon drum is the reserve one.
I also have 2 extra 30 and 2 extra 55 gallon drums.
This gives me a storage volume of from 30 to 255 gallons.

L . B .