The resolution (January 8, 2007 agenda item 13a) regarding tax rebates for certain types of vehicles is flawed. The resloution states that any person that owns and registers any new vehicle in the Town of Montville that operates on non petroleum fuel such as electric, natural gas, steam, water, propane or is a hybrid vehicle that their taxes shall be rebated each year by the Montville Town Council in the same manner as we rebate taxes collected in error.
Fossil fuel is the term for buried combustible geologic deposits of organic materials, formed from decayed plants and animals that have been converted to (petroleum) crude oil, coal, natural gas, or heavy oils by exposure to heat and pressure in the earth's crust.
Electricity is generated by Nuclear Power, Natural Gas, Coal or Fuel Oil and therfore electric cars are, in fact, powered by petroleum since Natural Gas, Coal and Fuel Oil are petroleum type substances (fossil fuels).
Obviously, Natural Gas powered vehicles are also powered by petroleum based fuel.
Steam powering a vehicle must be generated by a heat source capable of creating temperatures high enough to make large volumes of steam. Steam powered vehicle boilers are usually fired by a fossil fuel.
There are no practical water powered vehicles. The best approximation is a Fuel Cell powered vehicle. These vehicles use Hydrogen, Alcohol or Methanol as a fuel and a high oxygen content material as an oxidant. Some Fuel Cells use petroleum based fuels.
Propane is normally a gas, but is compressible to a liquid that is transportable. It is derived from petroleum products during oil or natural gas processing. Therfore, Propane powered vehicles also use petroleum.
The resolution would be viable if the words “operates on non petroleum fuel such as electric, natural gas, steam, water, propane or” were deleted.
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