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it now only means red diesel (non taxed) green diesel (taxed)
I do know if you get caught with it in your tank, it is a very hefty fine, but if you are only driving a farm use vehichle, you can use.; I think you can, not sure.
found this on IRS website
How To Buy Diesel Fuel and Kerosene Tax Free
You buy dyed diesel fuel and dyed kerosene excise tax free. You must use them only for a nontaxable use, including use on a farm for farming purposes. If you use the dyed fuel for a taxable use, you could be subject to the excise tax and a penalty. For example, if a truck used on a farm for farming purposes is also used on the highways (even though in connection with operating the farm), tax applies to the diesel fuel used (or sold for use) in operating the truck on the highways. The fuel was used off the farm for a taxable use.
found some more on how much a fine it is
1,000 up to 10,000
look on page 9
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p510.pdf
I do know if you get caught with it in your tank, it is a very hefty fine, but if you are only driving a farm use vehichle, you can use.; I think you can, not sure.
found this on IRS website
How To Buy Diesel Fuel and Kerosene Tax Free
You buy dyed diesel fuel and dyed kerosene excise tax free. You must use them only for a nontaxable use, including use on a farm for farming purposes. If you use the dyed fuel for a taxable use, you could be subject to the excise tax and a penalty. For example, if a truck used on a farm for farming purposes is also used on the highways (even though in connection with operating the farm), tax applies to the diesel fuel used (or sold for use) in operating the truck on the highways. The fuel was used off the farm for a taxable use.
found some more on how much a fine it is
1,000 up to 10,000
look on page 9
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p510.pdf
Last edited by cummins_guy; 04-12-2011 at 01:00 PM.
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The link that cummins guy found has a typical bureaucrat's entrapment built in.
Farmer Brown's logic: "I drive my truck 20% farm and 80% public road. I never do a full fill-up in town. I buy 20gal in town and add 5-gal from the tank. I should be OK."
In a just and fair world, like what you and I would run, he'd be right.
After a 7-year court battle that costs him his farm, he might be proven Pyrrhicly right.
In the real world, he's guilty until proven innocent, and better off running on "road" fuel.
.......or WVO, so long as the pumps, injectors and all don't mind the extra viscosity.
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......annnnd furrrrthermooooorrrre.....(you have to shake your jowls, and point your right index finger while using that phrase)
...I read on a different "red fuel" discussion that in addition to "dipping" your tank and catching you red-handed (no pun intended), "they" can also test for red dye residue in your exhaust pipe's soot layer. Take a toilet brush to the car wash with you, and scrub n rinse as far as you can, if you used to run the red stuff, and you currently aren't, and if the "revenoors" are active in your area.
Question for you northern guys: home heating oil? I've seen comments that it works well, but wonder this: dyed or clean? Detectable or not?
Farmer Brown's logic: "I drive my truck 20% farm and 80% public road. I never do a full fill-up in town. I buy 20gal in town and add 5-gal from the tank. I should be OK."
In a just and fair world, like what you and I would run, he'd be right.
After a 7-year court battle that costs him his farm, he might be proven Pyrrhicly right.
In the real world, he's guilty until proven innocent, and better off running on "road" fuel.
.......or WVO, so long as the pumps, injectors and all don't mind the extra viscosity.
---AutoMerged DoublePost---
......annnnd furrrrthermooooorrrre.....(you have to shake your jowls, and point your right index finger while using that phrase)
...I read on a different "red fuel" discussion that in addition to "dipping" your tank and catching you red-handed (no pun intended), "they" can also test for red dye residue in your exhaust pipe's soot layer. Take a toilet brush to the car wash with you, and scrub n rinse as far as you can, if you used to run the red stuff, and you currently aren't, and if the "revenoors" are active in your area.
Question for you northern guys: home heating oil? I've seen comments that it works well, but wonder this: dyed or clean? Detectable or not?
Last edited by geddy's uncle; 04-16-2011 at 12:25 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost
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