Thankyou Tom. No raw nerves or paranoia though, but thanks for the apology. Peace, and good luck.
Regards Keith >Wow, looks like I scraped a nerve rather raw. My sincere apologies. Its >probably something like your experience to work very hard to do something and >to be overlooked, checked and dismissed. Makes me paranoid. But, please note >that you, Keith, have been outstanding in your support for my fight with the >EPA. Despite my rather shabby slight against your web site, I really do >appreciate all you are doing. Again, apologies offered. > >I don't think I will ask you to do much to list my product. I can only barely >meet the local demand for biodiesel degreaser, and now it looks like I will >not be continually expanding this production system. I will be coy and say >that there is a good chance that within a few weeks I will announce a far >grander production system in the region. This new producer will be ASTM >certified and a significant player in the northeast biodiesel production >system. > >I'll keep you informed. > >Tom Leue > > >In a message dated 4/29/02 2:09:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > ><< Tom Leue wrote: > > >Reports of the death of Homestead Inc. and the cessation of Yellow Brand > >PREMIUM Biodiesel have been greatly exaggerated. I am sorry that your web > >listing no longer includes the quality product I produce, if it ever did > >include my production. > >No it never did. By the time I heard of it you were talking of being >closed down, and gave no news of any further production. > > >Your list would be far more helpful to the public if > >it were trying to be comprehensive, rather than just the "good old boys" in > >the NBB. > >Well, why the hell do you think I asked?? Sheesh! I've got an amazing >record of supporting the NBB against the interests of small >producers, eh? Including you! Do you want me to spell it out here? >After you first posted your message about the EPA hassle you were >having here I spread it all over the place, got the debate going >wherever I could, steered it where I could, fed it any info I could >find that seemed relevant, spent a lot of time fighting over it when >it got hijacked by trolls at the Biofuel list, then, on request, I >set up a special closed group for you and a few others to deal with >the problem, put a lot of time into administering that and trying to >make it more useful. I push the interests and value of small >biodiesel producers as against big producers wherever I can. I doubt >anyone has done so more than I have. > >And why should I care? I'm not involved, I have no interest in what >goes on in the US or other industrialised countries, with biodiesel >or anything else. Some remote village in Nepal or Tanzania where the >average citizen uses 1/155th of the energy per capita that the >average American uses, and probably to better effect and with less >harm, yes, that I'm interested in. > >So don't give me a hard time, eh? > >Please, somebody with a bit of objectivity, go to this page and tell >us if all it does is push the good old boys in the NBB - and you may >notice while you're there that the good old US of A doesn't quite yet >cover the entire surface of Planet Earth, though it seems it's trying >to. >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_supply.html >Biofuels supplies and suppliers > > >Homestead Inc. now sells Yellow brand Biodiesel Degreaser. This product is > >effective in parts washing machines and other cleaning chores. It is > >non-volatile, wonderfully effective either warm or cold, non-toxic, and can > >be safely disposed of in any waste oil burner, making the other >oil even burn > >cleaner! > > > >Yellow Biodiesel Degreaser is available daily at Homestead Inc. in Ashfield, > >MA. Call 800 285-4533 (or 413 628-4533) for availability and sales > >information. > >Current prices is $2,40 per gallon, or in a handy, recycled, 5 >gallon package > >for $13.00 > >I'm happy to know that. So you want me to give you some free >advertising in quite the best place for it on the Web, that big >companies offer me lots of money for but get turned down if I don't >think their products make it (and if they do make it their money gets >refused anyway), for me to spend time writing an entry for you, then >changing that page and uploading the new version... Sorry, maybe >you've caught me on a bad day or something, but try asking nicely and >I might get round to it sometime. > >Keith Addison > > > >Tom Leue > > >> ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/k6cvND/n97DAA/ySSFAA/9bTolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://www.webconx.com/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
