Biodiesel sucks, especially using corn for it. Using spent cane from sugar cane processing isn't quite as bad. But with the corn one doesn't even really break even in energy units.
And yet our government is pushing it. When they started doing that, the price of animal food went up. And then the price of hay went up because the land once used for hay is now being planted to corn to satisfy the government. It just makes me want to scream.
When we started in goats, about 7 years ago, hay was 8-9$ a bale. It's 16-17$ now! And I'm not selling the kids for more money than I was then, I'll tell ya.
If you want to get scared, look up HR 875. It'll make even home canning, home gardening, etc, illegal without licensing.
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Date: 2009-03-18 10:09 am (UTC)And yet our government is pushing it. When they started doing that, the price of animal food went up. And then the price of hay went up because the land once used for hay is now being planted to corn to satisfy the government. It just makes me want to scream.
When we started in goats, about 7 years ago, hay was 8-9$ a bale. It's 16-17$ now! And I'm not selling the kids for more money than I was then, I'll tell ya.
If you want to get scared, look up HR 875. It'll make even home canning, home gardening, etc, illegal without licensing.