There is a world of difference between what we do on a small scale in our back porch and what it will take for a high finance business world to take notice of this new kind of thing: Biodiesel. If you want biodiesel to become a widespread alternative and to have some significant impact in the real world, its got to make some MONEY. Real business have paid employees, paid business managers, advertising, debt, real estate and, most important, investors. The price we might pay for B-20 from World Energy or any other supplier has to be kept down to be in proportion to the highly subsidized price of petroleum. If the subsidy that commercial biodiesel pas been receiving disappears, you will see an almost instant stop to the growth of an entire industry. You should remember what happened when Reagan stopped the solar system tax credits. If we want to have any future for alternative and sustainable energy, we need to support this effort to keep the government from killing this barely born industry. This is the oil people against the biodiesel people, for heavens sake. What sense does it make to pay soybean farmers to grow more soybeans by taking away the subsidy from the soybean users? Don't we already run a huge surplus of soybeans already, and isn't more subsidy to farmers just going to increase this problem?
Its time for us to be heard on this issue before the entire biodiesel industry is put out to pasture. I'm going to help as well as I can. Tom Leue Homestead Inc. www.yellowbiodiesel.com In a message dated 10/22/02 1:58:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 00:23:47 -0000, you wrote: >Dear Biodiesel Enthusiast, > >I work with World Energy, the largest supplier of biodiesel in the >US. I am asking your support in a campaign to demand that our >government increase rather than reduce its support for biodiesel at >this crucial time. As you are likely aware, biodiesel presently >receives a production subsidy administered through the Commodities >Credit Corporation (CCC). The CCC has just issued new regulations >that would drastically reduce the effectiveness of the subsidy. We >are already seeing the effects of this in the market with rapidly >escalating biodiesel prices. I am confused about something. A recent news story I think put the price of making biodiesel at something like $.60 per gallon, for homebrewers able to secure a modestly priced source of base materials. So, why exactly is there this need for a subsidy? Was the cost estimate in error? >> ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Plan to Sell a Home? http://us.click.yahoo.com/J2SnNA/y.lEAA/jd3IAA/9bTolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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/
