[aruanan]

Don’t forget that Rossi paid a fuel tax on what he sold, so the guvmint was complicit in allowing that it was a fuel in the first place.

I've got to wonder who in the government was pissed that he wasn't paid off or who it was outside the government who paid someone in the government to screw Rossi over. Didn't someone try something like this in Atlas Shrugged?

[Kevmo]

The article mentions a certain Italian Crime organization.