Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:59:35 -0500 From: Fred W <Malt_Houndnospamm-me-not*yahoo.com> Subject: Re: SaabUSA Biopower survey
Bob wrote: > > Not bad... but there has to be a better reason than paying them not to > grow things. There has to be a valid market and products. Don't expect > the current administration of ex- and current oil company executives > to be pushing alternate fuel development (again, not a political > statement, just a factual observation - it ain't gonna happen). > > well, the money that is now going to them to *not* grow anything could be used to pay them to grow specific non-food energy crops. The point of the current farm subsidies is to (artificially) keep the food-crop prices higher. It would be killing two birds with one dollar, so to speak... -- -Fred W