[Homestead] Our digital trail - "Orwellian future"

Lynda lurine at softcom.net
Mon Dec 1 00:24:39 EST 2008


Ah, Bob, i think you're friend is right <g>

There are NO restrictions on diesel sales!  None, nodda, nein, no.  The 
rules on diesel (other than the low-sulfur stuff) are no different than they 
have been for decades.  The family owns gas stations.  When we borrowed the 
Silver Eagle, we tanked up 300 gallons at one fell swoop.  Not so much as a 
raised eyebrow.  All we got was "y'all have a nice day."  Oh, and she wanted 
to know if we'd had the new 3 Vanilla ice cream we bought before and if we'd 
liked it.  (the answer was yes)

We just filled up 6 - 50 gallon barrels with off-road.  No questions asked.

No one says boo when we pick up 50 to 100 sacks of fertilizer.

Now, I will admit that we don't pull up in a U-Haul but then we wouldn't 
need a U-Haul, Home Depot has their own trucks they'll rent you to haul the 
stuff away with.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bob ford" <bobford79 at yahoo.com>


> Lynn, I don't know what search words to put in, and I am uncomfortable 
> doing such a search anyway; but there were some types of restrictions put 
> on fertilizer/diesel sale after OKC.  And, you do need registration in any 
> state to sale fertilizer products.  If I went to home depot with a ryder 
> truck and tried to buy a a couple of hundred bags of nitrate fertilizer , 
> I don't think I would make it to the diesel station to feel up the 
> b*rrels, without being pulled over.
>
>  I'm not saying that is necessarily bad, on its face; it was just an 
> example, like the sudafed (which I think is stupid; the meth heads still 
> make all the want; the price just went up , so the violence went up-  A 
> mexican gang beheaded another 8-10 people in Tijuana this weekend; it's 
> not even a big deal, anymore
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> --- On Sun, 11/30/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Our digital trail - "Orwellian future"
>> To: homestead at lists.ibiblio.org
>> Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 8:50 PM
>> >I don't know what quantities of diesel and
>> fertilizer, but they do pay
>> >attention to that just like they do sudafed (ephredrine
>> products - yes,
>> >used to manufacture meth)
>> >
>>
>> Who is 'they'? How do they 'pay attention'
>> unless you have to register to
>> buy fertilizer (which you don't)? How could they track
>> cash sales to
>> anonymous buyers?
>>
>> > When my credit card was stolen , this past july
>> (remeber the price of gas
>> > then), the thieves had hit a number of gas stations,
>> but after the second
>> > one, citibank called me at home, told me they had put
>> a 'stop' on the
>> > card, and dispatched the police-- this was all while
>> the thieves were
>> > still using the card to buy more gas.  Citi knew
>> exactly when , where ,
>> > and how much. to >the second, live, while it was
>> happening
>>
>> Well, yeah. That's the good/bad thing about credit
>> cards. You can still buy
>> gas (and diesel) anonymously for cash. A sale of diesel
>> wouldn't stand out
>> in an area where half the vehicles use diesel (and everyone
>> fills gas cans
>> to take to fill their tractor). Again, how could they track
>> cash sales?
>>
>> Lynn Wigglesworth
>>
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