Actually it sounds completely free market to me, they collect the goods and
sell to whomever will pay... What the local guy really wants is a subsidy.
-Curt
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:56:41 -0400
From: andrew strasfogel <astrasfo...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] Bio who?
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IS this what economists would call an inefficient market?
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Mitch Haley <m...@voyager.net> wrote:
> Allan Streib wrote:
>
> OK I did some checking and I think I remembered the original story
>> incorrectly. The city program was picking up the grease for free and
>> undercutting private haulers.
>>
>> http://www.bizjournals.com/**sanfrancisco/stories/2008/04/**
>> 28/story6.html<http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2008/04/28/story6.html>
>>
>
>
> I see. Much ado about nothing.
>
> Local guy is too cheap to pay yellow grease prices for the stuff.
> Somebody in Nevada will pay prevailing rates. City sells it to Nevada
> buyer, local guy bitches because his costs have gone up.
>
> "Patrick MacIntyre, who runs Oakland-based Blue Sky Biofuels with his
> brother Ralph, said the city's SFGreaseCycle has raised prices for the
> restaurant cooking oil the city collects for free and sells to recyclers.
>
> "MacIntyre also said San Francisco ironically is selling oil to fuel
> producers as far afield as Nevada -- rather than supporting local
> businesses."
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