Guess what.... American gas isn't really all that
cheaper. Another myth.
On Nov 2, 2002, regular gas in Vancouver was 66.9
Canadian cents per litre and
in Point Bob, it was 65.4 Canadian cents per
liter. Blaine, Lynden and Bellingham, WA were all similar.
Of course, there might be more of a difference
in Quebec... there may be additional provincial taxes.
America isn't the bargain it once was. But
for Americans, Canada is on sale! Come on up!!
Doug
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 7:46
PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Canadian
Arrested at US Border - Why?
acroorca2002, that last one was a good read. I enjoyed
it. A couple
of messages after the first one broke went into the
weapons deal - it
wasn't over gas at all! By the way, there are
places you pass through
immigration at one spot and later down the road run
into the customs
guys. You see it mostly in places where the US immigration
is
co-located with foreign border control posts (where the US-fellows
are
actually working in the other country). Overseas, in Europe,
there
are a bunch of places like that, such as all around
Geneva,
Switzerland when entering France, and at Samnaun, Switzerland when
you
enter from Italy.
Regards
LN
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "acroorca2002"
<orc@o...> wrote:
> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "L. A. Nadybal"
<lnadybal@c...> wrote:
> >
> > This makes no
sense
>
> thats perfectly ok
> & thanx for the heads
up
>
> > - one can export from the USA practically
whatever
> > one wants. What law in the US says one must tell
customs
> one is
> > exporting a tankfull of gas?
>
> right exactly
> this nonevent was definitely not about
exports
>
> good try tho
> since it had to be about
something
>
> however maybe it was really about what it was
actually about
> namely
> unheeded advance warnings of policy
change
> repeated border transgressions anyway
> plus
> a
high powered weapons violation in time of highest paranoia
>
gallic insouciance meeting yanko officiousness
> etc etc
>
> > Was he really arrested for the
> > ancillary charges
mentioned and is using the gas as a reason,
> when it
> >
really isn't?
>
> what ancillary charges were mentioned
>
& who is using the gas as a reason for what
>
> i dont know
where you got all this
> or did you catch that tv movie i missed
>
> > Maybe he was really just arrested for entering the US
>
> and not having gone to immigration (as opposed to customs).
>
> good thinking here
> since customs doesnt monitor
exports
> aha
> just as immigration doesnt monitor
emigration
>
> & you check in to both customs &
immigration simultaneously
> whenever you enter these countries by
car
> & are usually interviewed & cleared by a single
officer
> but naturally no checkout is required when you
leave
>
> > Is this little area of the US between
the border and the customs
> house
> > a "tax free zone"
within which no tax on gas is charged, and
> perhaps
> > there
is a tax issue?
>
> nope
> full tax is charged except on
indian reservations
> but it is still way cheaper than canadian
gas
> so no issue there
>
> > I cannot believe US
customs would so negatively impinge on
> an American
> >
entrepreneur's market by scaring customers away. Customs
> is
in
> > business to protect American commerce, not to strangle sales
> at a gas
> > station of an unrationed, uncontrolled
product.
>
> believe it
> customs is in business to
enforce certain laws
> but the laws are what protect the
commerce
>
> customs itself has no interest in commerce
>
since that would be a conflict of interest
>
> > If gas tax
was
> > charged in this little zone, scaring Canadians away from
> tanking up
> > only hurts the State's tax income - and if I
were a state official,
> > I'd ask in Washington about what in the
world a federal official
> was
> > doing damaging a sovereign
states' interest like that (if it's
> true).
>
> gas tax
is charged
> but that doesnt scare anybody
>
> nor was
there any damage
> except in your imagination
>
> but i
agree the article is tilted
>
> > I have a sneaking
suspicion that there's something more to
> this than
> > the
article reveals, or the article is tilted.
> >
> >
Regards
> > Len Nadybal
> >
> > Len
Nadybal
>
> & thanx also to asher for his rant
> &
you know i am always on one anyway
>
> yours in
solidarity
> m
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