[SEL] Corn-gas a BUST!

[John Hall]

It seems I read the Deere puts Bio-Diesel in all their new equipment. I got 
something in the mail for soybean growers that  was encouraging farmers to 
switch to bio-diesel.  I can't remember but they had done the research and 
figured how much the price of beans would go up per bushel just if farmers 
alone made the switch.

Now before some idot starts ranting about running up the price of food, you 
need to understand something about the price of commodities--very little of 
what the farmer gets paid is reflected on the grocercy store shelf. Example; 
5-6 years ago wheat was under $3 per bushel. A bushel is roughly 60 lbs. A 1 
lb loaf of bread was selling for over a $1. I guess it costs more than I 
think to run semis up and down the road and to process flour. Priced buying 
a combine, couple grain trucks, storage bins, dryer, drill, tractor(s), 
grain wagons, sprayers, tillage tools etc.,lately? Oh yeah, you only use 
this some of this stuff 2-8 weeks out of the year.

Welfare for the farmer? Give me a break! If it's that lucrative I guess 
quite a few of you will be going a million bucks in debt this fall when you 
start your farm. Just tell me how to get a combine that isn't older than I 
am!!

John Hall

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> Now, biodiesel is the one worth supporting, although the morons over
> here in the US have been scared away from diesels ever since GM
> brought out the 350 diesel bomb back in 1977.  Biodiesel can be run
> in ANY engine, and no modifications need to be made (might need to
> replace fuel lines in really old cars).  Most diesels will run BETTER
> on bio than they do on regular diesel.  The raw material for making
> bio (vegetable oil) is also in ready supply.  We already make
> millions of gallons of it each year for frying and cooking, and that
> oil is thrown out or recycled after it's used.  Why not recycle it
> into biodiesel?
>
> I fully support biodiesel even though I'm in no way a GREEN
> person.  I could care less about the environmental aspects of it.  If
> it helps us buy less oil from the terrorists, then I'm all about it.
>
> -Tony
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