Re: [Biofuel] oil price gouging poll

2005-10-17 Thread John E Hayes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Government meddling in a free-market economy is never a good thing. a) Well, removing the billions in corporate welfare the petroleum industry gets from the government might be a good place to start. Why ExxonMobil needs my tax dollars to fund RD when they had $25

Re: [biofuel] Re: Ethanol from sugar cane:Thebest and worst technolgy

2004-01-17 Thread John E Hayes
Keith Addison wrote: Also, I really don't know what to make of your sales brochure, which claims such high levels of expertise yet talks of 20 deg. Brix and 32-35 deg. Brix and so on. Brix levels are percentages, not degrees. I have nothing to contribute on the thread as a whole, but I

Re: [biofuel] vw tdis in connecticut

2003-05-21 Thread John E Hayes III
Hi Jason- I don't know of anybody that actually makes BD here in CT. Jim Burke in Southington does have a bulk-buy co-op ( http://ctbiodzl.freeshell.org/ ) if you want to go that route. From what I can tell, CT does have has a very active TDI mod scene that has technical and social

Re: [biofuel] Fwd: [prep2003discuss2] Toothpaste as poison

2003-05-20 Thread John E Hayes
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Re: [biofuel] Fwd: [prep2003discuss2] Toothpaste as poison

2003-05-20 Thread John E Hayes
? If not, the solid food you ingest will have plenty of minerals. Frankly, I'd far rather drink R.O. water, avoid the heavy metals and other nasties, and eat a damn banana to balance my electrolytes. John -- John E Hayes, M.S. Doctoral Student in Nutritional Sciences University of Connecticut [EMAIL

Re: [biofuel] 42,850 Traffic Deaths in 2002

2003-04-30 Thread John E Hayes III
Hakan Falk wrote: The training, tests and exams are more extensive. Skidding training are mandatory and certificate is necessary for drivers licence. Yes, US driver training is utterly horrible. And driver discipline is worse. Germany have much better statistics than US, that is a fact.

Re: [biofuel] How We Lost the Victory

2003-04-22 Thread John E Hayes
Hakan Falk wrote: I do not understand why you think that parliamentary democracy has anything to do with mob rule. I have never heard such a stupid definition of democracy and never experienced it either. I have to ask you what the opposite alternative is? It is the besetting vice of

Re: [biofuel] Re: U.S./california diesel options

2003-04-18 Thread John E Hayes
Sam wrote: at the moment the only diesel passenger cars sold in the u.s. are german: Mercedes are cost prohibitive, and VWs are unreliable (consumer reports rates the passat as average reliability, and every other VW ispoor or Bad Volkswagen is through selling cars in california after this

Re: [biofuel] article on supercritical transesterification

2003-04-03 Thread John E Hayes III
Done. http://www.john-hayes.com/demirba-2003.pdf John Marc de Piolenc wrote: See the following publication for supercritical reaction conditions. Biodiesel fuels from veg.oils via catalytic and non-catalytic supercritical alcohol transesterifications and other methods: a survey. ENERGY

Re: [biofuel] Dirty Bombing

2003-04-02 Thread John E Hayes III
bratt wrote: The search for uses for waste--re-cycling--has brought about several new industries. 1. Nuclear medicine 2. Irradiated food. 3. Weapons grade Uranium 4. DU weapons of war. Seems like the search for use of radioactive waste finds solutions each of which gets more deadly

Re: [biofuel] In Iraq Crisis, Networks Are Megaphones for Official Views

2003-03-20 Thread John E Hayes III
I have been mostly deleting all the political discussion recently... In addition to it making me ill, I just don't have anything to say. Why not? A number of reasons. I have been inundated with it, and none of it will change my mind and I doubt I'll change anyone elses.

Re: [biofuel] PENTAGON THREATENS TO KILL INDEPENDANT REPORTERS

2003-03-19 Thread John E Hayes III
Kim Garth Travis wrote: America is not the only country to follow this path and definitely not the first. In Canada, it is called the Emergency Measures Act and it was implemented in the early 70' during the FLQ crisis. All restrictions on arrest and questioning were canceled across the

Re: [biofuel] PENTAGON THREATENS TO KILL INDEPENDANT REPORTERS INIRAQ-innocent lives will be lost!

2003-03-19 Thread John E Hayes III
Hakan Falk wrote: $25 is a target price by US, where they can maintain the American way of life. $40 for a longer period will be very difficult and close to $60 the American society will start to deteriorate. This is not my analyses, it is based on several US data, so do not get angry with me.

Re: [biofuel] PENTAGON THREATENS TO KILL INDEPENDANT REPORTERS INIRAQ-innocent lives will be lost!

2003-03-18 Thread John E Hayes III
Ummm. I fail to see how Vern's remark merits this response. Andrew postulated that 100% of the group is against the war. Vern presented a datapoint that invalidates Andrew's assertion. Vern may be right or wrong in his support of this war, but in this post all he did was provide evidence

[biofuel] Poltical Opinions, Random Samples Web polls

2003-03-18 Thread John E Hayes III
Andrew Preston wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:55:10 -0500, John Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Such a poll would be useless given selection bias issues inherent to nonrandom sampling Would you expand on this a little? In statistics, people frequently focus solely on the number

Re: [biofuel] About to use some Rapeseed..!

2003-03-17 Thread John E Hayes III
That would be a better use for it rather than eating it. Con artists have re-named it canola oil. Well, rapeseed oil and canola aren't *exactly* the same thing. Canola is technically low erucic acid rapeseed oil. The eruric acid levels in normal rape seed make it unfit for human

Re: [biofuel] Voices from the grave...

2003-03-12 Thread John E Hayes III
Keith Addison wrote: Great quote. Only problem is that there is no record Caeser ever said it. http://www.snopes.com/quotes/caesar.htm Inasmuch as Snopes is to be believed. Maybe I'm slow, but what does Snopes have to gain from claiming there is no record Caeser made the

Re: [biofuel] protest

2003-03-07 Thread John E Hayes III
Sounds to me like a power-hungry rent-a-cop that had an axe to grind deserves a letter in his file or better yet, a pink-slip. I'd bet the Albany police didn't really have a choice about taking the father and son into custody once they were called in by mall security. Until explicitly told

Re: [biofuel] Re: availability

2003-03-07 Thread John E Hayes III
Ooops. My fault. I must have been thinking about the CNG filling station in Oakland. Sorry about that. John (former Piedmont resident) girl_mark_fire wrote: There most certainly is NOT anyone selling biodiesel at the pump in Oakland, and no plans for one. Can anyone else confirm the Santa

Re: [biofuel] Re: Or maybe just one Was: Perhaps many .. but not all

2003-03-05 Thread John E Hayes III
aegent wrote: There is more to ownership than baseline reliability costs. For example the Honda and Toyota are (in my experience) more costly to maintain. Then there is the dealer experience. Ford dealers are why I have probably bought my last Ford ever. I was looking at Toyota for my next car

Re: [biofuel] Latest from my Pal

2003-02-20 Thread John E Hayes III
But also note that not everyone thinks this way in the world. Other religions and cultures may differ. Who are we to judge they are wrong. If it is one person leading this, OK that's easy. But if it's part of the culture, isn't that the same as you first statement as others saying the US