Re: Latvia refuses to go green: new power station to return the country to dark ages of coal

From: Hatunen (hatuunen_at_cox.net)
Date: 02/25/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:57:25 -0800

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:37:01 -0600, "Stephen Sprunk"
<stephen@sprunk.org> wrote:

>"Hatunen" <hatuunen@cox.net> wrote in message
>news:0uk911lttmmdtdip0ikcpplhh29rdo93ca@4ax.com...
>> And do we really want government farm policy determining our fuel
>> supply?
>
>Is that better or worse than paying some farmers not to grow anything so
>that other farmers will get higher prices at the market?

Actually, that's my point. Do we want our fuel supply handled
that way?

>> Farmers plant crops that seem to be likely to provide them with
>> the highest income. How do we keep farmers from switching from
>> bio-ethanol crops to, say, soy beans, should the price of soy
>> beans rise?
>
>Supply and demand will even that out.

Precisely. some year s we'll have soy beans and some years we'll
have fuel.

>This also ignores that there are many types of land suitable for growing
>fuel source crops that is not suitable for growing "normal" food crops.
>They are not necessarily in competition.

"Not necessarily" isn't too comforting.

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