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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

> The whole deal is the combination, and I don't think there are 
> restrictions, just reporting requirements.  You say part of your family 
> owns stations.  If somweone that you didn't know, pulled in in a rental 
> truck with a bunch of barrels in the back and proceeded to fil them with 
> diesel, you wouldn't alert anyone (and what if you knoticed the tons of 
> fertilizer stacked in the >back)?.

Bob; what you don't realize is that what you decribe is a common sight, any 
spring day in an agricultural area.  Farmers need the fertilizer for their 
spring planting of sweet corn (the field corn is usually a large enough area 
to get a hopper of fertilizer), and the diesel fuel to run the tractor 
(larger farms have the fuel delivered to the tanks on the farm; smaller ones 
transport it from the station). On the way back from getting the fertilizer, 
you drive up to the self-serve diesel punp, go in and hand over the cash, 
fill up your containers and leave. Unless the clerk knows you, you are 
anonymous, and the clerk can't see what's in your truck from inside.

Lynn Wigglesworth