Enemy of the Empire (@phasorburn)

Enemy of the Empire @phasorburn@phasorburn.com

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My rural living friends in the 80s ran purple gas in all their personal vehicles. Never heard of any of them being caught/fined over it.

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Sir Osis of Liver

@Sir_Osis_of_Liver@beige.party

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@phasorburn

I know of one fisherman who was caught with red dye in his then new Cummins Dodge. That would have been around '93 or so. Ended up with somewhere around $20k in fines by the time the investigation was done.

The suspicion was one of the other fishermen ratted him out. They're pretty cutthroat and hold grudges.

My father-in-law had a logging operation.
He had a large storage tank for dyed diesel. It only went into skidders/porters.

His own pickup was gas. He said it just wasn't worth the risk. Fines added up pretty quickly if you were caught.

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Enemy of the Empire @phasorburn@phasorburn.com

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@Sir_Osis_of_Liver Not saying it never happened, just no direct or second hand experience with it happening. Everyone rolled the dice.

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Sir Osis of Liver

@Sir_Osis_of_Liver@beige.party

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@phasorburn

Yeah, understood.

That one instance was the only one I knew of. The FIL's take on the situation seemed to corroborate that, at least locally, it was taken pretty seriously.

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