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04 Mar 06 - 09:47 AM (#1684995) Subject: BS: U.S.Really does promote clean fuels From: frogprince This is from the current tax instruction booklet. Trust me; if you read through it you will find it interesting. "If you placed a qualified clean-fuel vehicle in service in 2005, yoy can deduct $2,000 on line 36 if you did not use the vehicle in your business (other than as an employee).... A qualified clean-fuel vehicle: 1. Must be acquired new and for your own use. 2. Must satisfy any federal and state emissions standards. 3. Is designed to be propelled by a clean-burning fuel, such as natural gas, liquified natural gas, liquified petroleum gas, hydrogen, or electricity. A qualified clean-fuel vehicle includes certain gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles such as the Ford Escape Hybrid, Honda Insight,...and Toyota Prius. It does not include electric vehicles. |
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04 Mar 06 - 12:18 PM (#1685082) Subject: RE: BS: U.S.Really does promote clean fuels From: Bobert Hmmmmmmmm? And these tax breaks from the same folks who gave out mega tax breaks for companies and small businesses to go out and buy gas guzzling SUV's and trucks just 2 years ago, except it was a lot more than $2000 off taxable income???... |
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04 Mar 06 - 04:03 PM (#1685175) Subject: RE: BS: U.S.Really does promote clean fuels From: frogprince The thing is, be sure to read both point number 3 and the last sentence of the quote. It's straight quote to the end; I didn't get the ending quotation marks on. |
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04 Mar 06 - 04:41 PM (#1685212) Subject: RE: BS: U.S.Really does promote clean fuels From: Barry Finn All this is a day late & a dollar shot. This is because they now have to at least address the issue, which this does not. The tax breaks the government offers for energency producers to side step the issue is an insult. They should close the loop holes of the upgrading of plants & instead of giving out huge benifits for making the situation worstfine the bastards for non complince with the stricter regulations. We are not promoting clean air we are paying out more to those who are producing toxic waste & putting it into Our air. Barry |
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04 Mar 06 - 04:45 PM (#1685216) Subject: RE: BS: U.S.Really does promote clean fuels From: McGrath of Harlow Couldn't a good lawnyer make a case for a push bike being a vehicle propelled by "a clean-burning fuel", viz good healthy eating? Or a horse drawn vehicle, of course, propelled by natural grass. |
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04 Mar 06 - 04:48 PM (#1685221) Subject: RE: BS: U.S.Really does promote clean fuels From: frogprince I think whoever edited the tax instructions may have been on some natural grass... |
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04 Mar 06 - 09:07 PM (#1685321) Subject: RE: BS: U.S.Really does promote clean fuels From: The Fooles Troupe At the recent Motor Show, Premier Beatty made a great fuss about how the V8 fuel-guzzling Race Cars are now all using Cleaner Greener 5% Alcohol Petrol... still scratching my head... |
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04 Mar 06 - 09:51 PM (#1685339) Subject: RE: BS: U.S.Really does promote clean fuels From: Rapparee My next vehicle will almost certainly be a hybrid. But I'll tell ya, I'm getting damned sick and tired of driving fuel-efficient cars and seeing what I save wasted by people in Expeditions and stuff like that. I can only console myself with the thought that maybe the bit I save actually goes to fuel an ambulance or life-flight helicopter. |