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State Sen. Stan Bingham, R-Denton, is known around Raleigh for his diesel Volkswagen fueled by used soybean oil. The car sports a "Goodbye, OPEC" sign.
"If somebody was going to go to this much trouble to drive around in a car that uses soybean oil, they ought to be exempt" from state taxes, he said.
Nice to see a Republican making sense for once.
The problem is Big Oil has plenty of money to hire lobbyists to run around Washington and make silly crap like this a reality so they can protect their interests. They don't want the little guy snubbing their noses at $3.00 a gallon and up gasoline, cuz that cuts into their bottom line. Companies like Exxon are turning record profits, and giving retiring CEO's multi-million dollar retirement packages. They aren't going to give that up quietly.
