[Vwdiesel] (Fwd) Another way to do it... (NVC)

[Mark Shepherd]

So using best yield and $200 COP
that comes to 2.47 litres of oil per $
This excludes cost of machinery as you bought it to plant
turnips anyway and you can set it off against tax.
pressing at 4 cents per litre can be 'lost'
As boss of the farm and working for altruistic reasons
you're happy to work for peanuts (salted) just so long as
your combine (with auto pilot) has its library well stocked
and the Sat. link to the diesel forae paid for...
So... I can nola see a problem?
Math-Mark


James said:
Put your trust in Michael Moore?
You may not want to repeat much of what he spouts, as there
tends to be a
conflict between fact and sensation.

As a complainer that biofuel at present cannot be
competitive, I would
suggest you need to look at the prices of vegetable oil in
the world market,
just like crude oil, it is a traded commodity.

Coincidentally, I just came in from seeding Canola.  I do
this stuff for a
living, and dude, I do not have blinders on.  NOBODY knows
better than a
farmer how much money you can lose in a year when commodity
prices go south,
or how little value gets assigned to a commodity by
idealists unless they
are actually engaged in production of the commodity.  As to
the fuel issue,
Canola is 40% oil at crush, slightly dependant on growing
conditions. Yield
is around 10-2400lb/acre of seed. density of canola oil
vares around
.92g/cm3  Cost of production is $175.00 to $200 per acre,
exclusive of
profit. I don't work for free, as there is an investment
cost of over a
million dollars on a grain farm in capital assets,
machinery, and operating
budget, and then there is my wage as well.  Squeezing the
oil out of the
seed involves another 30-40$/ Tonne of seed.  You need to
produce,
transport, store, and distribute.  Now you are equipped to
do the math.

At present, it is not profitable to take oil that is used
for cooking oil,
and use it for Bio-D. THere is a net loss, unless you want
to redirect your
military budget to me that is... that being the case, you
better get the
storage tanks ready.

Yes, wars are obscenely expensive. Sad.
I still favor "world leaders" duking it out in the ring, or
shotguns at
fifty paces as opposed to sending everyone else's kids out
to do it for them
over nothing.
-James