coachgeo3 wrote: >Being a Devils advocate here. > >Entering into the fuel market that is LOCKED up by the big guys takes >some BIG KAHUNAS (sp?) and even bigger balls of money. > >soooo mayybee we should support A-Midland and not chastise them. >Lets pushem into getting this thing rolling. After they break the >market open then wise folk on this list will get together and get >finacial backers and start competitive companies to ride the new wave. > >Horns honed and sharpened. Fire away guys.. I'm ready har har ]:-)
Yeah, but someone else did the same thing a few weeks ago, and it don't make no sense. http://www.soyatech.com/bluebook/news/viewarticle.ldml?article=20010501-9 Soya & Oilseed Industry News Farmers want veggie fuel mandated, subsidized Date Posted: 5/1/2001 WASHINGTON (AP) Approximately 20 million gallons of biodiesel are expected to be produced nationwide this year, compared with 5 million gallons in 2000, according to the National Biodiesel Board. 300% growth a year, and you reckon they need our help? World Energy employs a fancy-pants New York PR agency to push biodiesel for them, and that agency has admitted that the backyarders - that's us - do a better job of it than they do. Corporate PR just doesn't get the kind of excellent coverage Mike Pelly just got in the Seattle Times, for one of many instances. They can't campaign, promote, teach and generally spread the Good Word like we do. This from an ex-top exec at the NBB (forwarded to me): "Proponents of "make-it-yourself" fuel or not looked upon as serious because there is no way to ensure consistent fuel quality. Of course, these groups can be very helpful when approaching government to demonstrate community-wide support." You want to be patronised like that? And that we can't ensure consistent fuel quality is BS, as we all know. Anyway, as we've often discussed here, Big Biofuels will not be an improvement on Big Oil. One comment was this: "It's possible to do anything badly. I wouldn't be surprised if in 10 years time we're fighting Big Ethanol tooth and nail, like we're fighting Big Oil now." That was about ethanol, but it was directed at ADM. You cannot rely on the likes of ADM not to do a good thing badly and make of it a bad thing. That's their record. More to the point, simply substituting biofuels for fossil-fuels is not the answer. What it will take is greatly improved energy efficiency and energy savings, and the big guys won't do that, quite the opposite. The real problem is to decentralize energy production as much as possible to the local level. The big guys won't do that either - that would be suicide for them. We'll do it though. We already are. We're costing them millions of dollars a year already in fuel they're not selling us because we're making our own GOOD fuel ourselves - and they don't even know it. Good. There's no need to "enter into the fuel market", as you put it. It's hopelessly rigged and does nobody any good. We can ignore the fuel market, go our own way, set up our own local alternatives, as many of us are doing. Just do it. Do it yourself. I don't think you have a case. Keith ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Home Selling? Try Us! http://us.click.yahoo.com/QrPZMC/iTmEAA/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/
