Japan imports a lot of their rice for the same reason. For one thing, they can't make enough because they just don't have the wetland acreage to "plant" rice and also the demand is so great that it's actually shipped in. Also large conglomerates, "Skippy", own a lot of the land that they get the peanuts off of so that they can control the supply and demand of their own products. Speaking of which, I heard that Archer Daniels Midland, Monsanto and a couple of others are quietly buying up soybean crops all around the globe for future production of bio-diesel. They have seen the writing on the wall. This country HAS to change over to bio-diesel and synthetics soon. I know other alternative power like the fuel cell is being developed, but my opinion is that a grass roots effort is the answer right now. Jumping Yemeni, I'm starting to sound like a politician! But that still doesn't take away the fact that we have to wean ourselves off dino.
Jesse Parris | studio53 | graphics / web design | stamford, ct | 203.324.4371 www.jesseparris.com/Portfolio_Jesse_Parris/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 9:10 AM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Re: peanut oil > At 07:34 PM 9/3/2002 -0700, you wrote: > >To get off my high horse a bit, why would peanuts > >(or any other crop, for that matter) EVER become more > >expensive to grow than what they are worth? Does this > >happen because of the high costs of water, pesticides, > >herbicides, plow blades, combines, fuel????? If so, > >maybe it's just that a particular crop is being grown > >in the wrong location, or in the wrong way, or in > >too-large fields, or perhaps an overly-sensitive cultivar > >is being raised...... what is it? > > > >I really want to know. -K > > I wondered about this myself. I live in VA and wanted to get some- (like > 100-500lbs) of peanuts to have on hand to make my own peanut butter, I > thought it would (should) be less expensive than buying name brand stuff at > the store. Instead I have found it to be SO MUCH MORE- like two to three > times the price. It is amazing that it is cheaper to buy peanuts already > processed into peanut butter -(shipped in from what country?) than to buy > the plain peanuts grown right here in VA. > > > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > ADVERTISEMENT > > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuels list archives: > http://archive.nnytech.net/ > > Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> 4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now http://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
