Hi Keith and all the list, > Hi Derek, how goes? >
I'm hoping to be more active on the list again. I've had trouble accessing the list through my company's firewall. Things are improving. Anyway, I have been reading through a couple of thousand messages and catching up!! I've been thinking of back when I first joined the list and we had a minor celebration when we hit 500 members. Now I see we are heading for two thousand. Over the relatively few years that we have been visiting together, I think a lot of progress has been made with biofuels. Although it can seem frustrating at times, I think if one looks at where we have come from, a lot has been accomplished. Also in the roughly four years of the list, Keith moved from Hong Kong to Japan, and has lived at two locations in Japan. I moved from Saudi, to Beijing, China, to Spain, and back to Saudi. I'm sure many others have also had personal upheavals! During the four years of the list there have been two wars fought, many would say with energy concerns at the root of the cause for the conflicts. We've used up a lot more fossil fuels. Concerns that four years ago were discussed such as global warming are now becoming less theory and more real with recent news reports about the shrinking ice caps, etc. But, the word is getting out about biofuels. More and more people are aware of them. More people are using them. Their time is here and now, and more so every day. Other things are helping. Wind energy is fast becoming a major player whereas four years ago it was just getting off the ground. Hybrid vehicles were more or less a concept four years ago. Now, they are close to making a major play. I'm sure everyone will have their own examples. But, I do kind of feel that we are swimming just ahead of the wave. Hopefully fast enough to keep it from crashing on us. And, hopefully it won't be a tsunami. Regards, Derek ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Rent DVDs from home. Over 14,500 titles. Free Shipping & No Late Fees. Try Netflix for FREE! http://us.click.yahoo.com/ybSovB/hP.FAA/3jkFAA/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/
