Re: [Biofuel] doubling the fuel economy of the Ford Escape

2008-02-29 Thread robert and benita
, but 10 years is not unreasonable. I've never done the brakes on my Ranger, and I've had it for more than 10 years now. >Less buying, more making do. Now that I think about it I use that as a >kind of personal mantra for a lot of things. Makes my life simpler and >chea

[Biofuel] India cancels small farmers' debt

2008-02-29 Thread Keith Addison
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7270361.stm Friday, 29 February 2008, 08:50 GMT India cancels small farmers' debt All farmers with land of less than two hectares will be able to apply The Indian government is to cancel the entire debt of the country's small farmers in a giant scheme that w

Re: [Biofuel] doubling the fuel economy of the Ford Escape

2008-02-29 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Erik > > I think a lot of us have that problem. Always too much to do, never > > enough time for keyboards! > >Yes, especially when the sun is shining! Even it when's snowing, hmph. It snowed for a month and stopped yesterday. I never saw snow until I was 25, and then I thought it was be

Re: [Biofuel] Evaluation of global wind power

2008-02-29 Thread Chip Mefford
Chandan Haldar wrote: -SNIP > And finally (the list archives should be full of stuff about > this), an "alternative" source of energy is not a real > alternative unless it is nett energy positive (can produce > more energy than it takes to make and operate it on a > perpetual basis). As far as I u

Re: [Biofuel] Consumers can and will pay more for food

2008-02-29 Thread Chip Mefford
Kirk McLoren wrote: > (cpm wrote) -SNIP > No. Food outside the corporate stranglehold isn't cheaper, it's > more expensive, it's also higher quality, better tasting and > considerably healthier. > --- > 65 cents for Fuji apples and FRESH beats the heck out of corporate > distributi

Re: [Biofuel] Evaluation of global wind power

2008-02-29 Thread Keith Addison
Kirk, you know there's a whole world between your alternatives of big and bad on the one hand and treadmills on the other. Appropriate Technology works, it fits, it's sane, it's sustainable and it has a future. You sound a bit like the guys who say the only alternative to the modern consumeris