DIYbanter - View Single Post - Interesting story about home automobile gasoline filling stationsin residential property

George

On 12/4/2011 11:17 AM, wrote:
On Dec 3, 2:00 pm, wrote:
On Dec 3, 11:47 am, Ed wrote:

On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 09:30:36 -0500, Home wrote:

There's only 2 reasons why someone might want to maintain a small store
of gas in his backyard:

1) It's a long way to the gas station, and you're going to burn a lot of
gas going there just to get your gas. So get as much as you can in one
trip and bring it all home for re-distribution.

2) You want to save a few bucks by buying gas when the price is low.
It's just that you want to buy a LOT of gas when the price is low -
enough to last you a month.

How about:
3) He has a lot of off road vehicles to fuel up. ATV, snowmobile,
tractor, etc.

As for filling up the family sedan, I hate pumping gas once so I'll be
damned if I'm going to do it twice. We do have a few full service
station in central MA though, lowest prices around too!

Here in CT it is 3.53 if I pump it myself. Across the border, I can
have it pumped for me and pay 3.31.

OK, that brings up reason 4). He buys a large quantity when traveling
to another state with cheaper gas and saves $25 a load.

Transporting fuel of any quantity not contained in your vehicle's
factory designed fuel tank across state lines requires a federal
license to do so -- case else you are committing tax fraud on the
state of your residence by evading the gasoline tax on fuel you
clearly
intend to use within your state that you purchased in another and
making a federal offense out of it by crossing a state line...- Hide quoted text -

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What do guys like landscapers that have several cans of gas
on their trucks do when they cross a state line everyday?
Dump it all out? Geez...

Likely Doug the landscapers incursions into another state is statistical
noise. But there are reporting requirements even if you transport fuel
in the vehicles fuel tank in commercial use.

The organization that handles it is IFTA:

Our former governor was a big proponent of handing all of the
Interstates over to the massively bureaucratic overfilled with political
appointments turnpike commission. He constantly made the false claim
that out of state trucks were not paying road use tax. If you are even a
small trucking company you must file an IFTA return that lists all of
the states you operated in and the mileage and remit the tax. So say you
filled up a truck in NY and drove across NJ, PA and OH. Even though you
didn't purchase fuel there you would need to pay road use tax to NJ, PA
and OH (and get a credit for fuel you didn't use in NY)