--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I've written a lot here and at the Biofuel list and elsewhere about > on-farm energy and biofuels production. Odd... Ed Beggs (if you don't > mind Ed) and I have just been wondering off-list about this matter of > farmers. Ed said: "...why so few farmers? You'd think they'd be all > over the list....maybe they just lurk a bit and then quietly go build > stuff we have not even thought of yet, for about $10, plus some > broken cultivator bits, eh?"
My perception is that the farmers are waiting for Big Business to take the leadership role, get government involved to provide subsidies and a guaranteed profit, then they'll go for it. > > Maybe - hopefully... But I've encountered very few here, and in the > biodiesel world generally, and the few I have encountered haven't > been doing it very well. Often not that much better than the Illinois > soy and wheat farmers crying over the lost subsidies for their wind > farm, with apparently never a thought for biodiesel or ethanol power, > or all the US chicken farmers (factory farmers) and their wails of > anguish over heating bills every winter, despite all that eminently > biogasable chicken litter they seem to have so much trouble disposing > of (though of course a lot of chicken shit gets fed to cattle). They've been brainwashed and trained for so many years to depend on governemnt to guarantee them a positive income, that it seems to be inconceivable for them to make any investment on their own. Even their Cooperative ventures are all governmentally underwritten. > > Ho hum. > > Best > > Keith > Me too, Motie 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/
