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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Lynn, I already said I wish I hadn't used this poor example; but, still, I 
have to believe if a person strange to you, that wasn't an obvious farmer 
pulled up and started filling up barrels with diesel fuel, that something 
would be noticed.  The 'reporting' even if not law, is becoming second nature 
for us; But, the records, the discovery will be there; through receipts, 
cameras, times-stamps, etc.  Most farmers are going to need those receipts 
for t*x purposes, anyway

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--- On Mon, 12/1/08, 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: Monday, December 1, 2008, 6:12 AM
> > 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 
> 
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