planted a seed in their lives, have no connection to market traders,
know nothing about the banking oil cartels structering prices on all
commodities for their profits, know nothing of farming and know nothing
of economics.
It is with this I present the reality of a Wisconsin farmer on bio fuels
to educate the people here.
This Wisconsin farmer raises 1/3rd of a section of oil sunflowers a year
to power his entire farm. For those who do not know oil sunflowers are
used for vegetable oil and the striped sunflowers which you eat are a
different variety.
These black oil sunflowers are planted in late April and harvest early
September AS BIRDS WILL EAT HALF THE CROP OTHERWISE.
He gets a crop of 1000 gallons of vegetable oil per 36 acres which he
uses as "diesel fuel" to run his operation.
Now to REFUTE THE IGNORANT:
These sunflowers are ground and processed though a COLD PRESS. This
means they are ground like coffee and then pressed like in an old
wringer washing machine so the oil runs out.
WHAT IS LEFT IS still 100% edible. People can eat it. (In fact,
historically the Arikara Indians used to grind these oil sunflowers and
roll them into a ball and use them as an emergency high energy snack to
revive them.)
Animals can eat this product in everything from chicken, cattle to pet
foods as it is a high energy food.
This product even can be used in pellet furnaces to heat homes. So ALL
FROM ONE planting is food, fuel and home heating.
I will REPEAT ALL FROM ONE PLANT IS FOOD, FUEL AND HOME HEATING which
proves the bogus lies being continually posted here about this making a
food shortage problem or bio fuels are inferior. Mr. Diesel when he
invented his diesel engine BUILT IT TO RUN ON VEGETABLE OIL AS THAT IS
ALL FARMS WERE PRODUCING BACK THEN.
This farmer states, "I run my oil presses until diesel goes down to 2.00
dollars a gallon and then I buy diesel on the open market as it is then
cheaper for me. (He can then sell his crop for a higher price trade.)
This SAME situation is what takes place in genetic corn and soybeans
which ignorant people are posting here about ethanol or bio diesel never
equating what is going on as no one here has any experience at all in
the field or field of what these fuels are and that the food is
left........all they are taking out is starch and oil which people do
not consume in the first place.
So I will ask please, check this out with farmers who are actually doing
this to get the facts and then cut and paste this into emails and start
spreading the FACTS. There is no excuse for ignorance of for being led
around like morons posting bogus things one finds or hears on Rush
Limbaugh in his fill ins.
I will repeat for simplicity. Bio fuels extract oil and ethanol and
LEAVE THE FOOD to be utilized. Nothing is lost and what is gained is all
this money is kept in the United States instead of being placed into
foreign banks.
Will bio fuels ever replace all American needs? No, but for industry,
home heating and agriculture needs bio fuels will drive the price of oil
down which will put more money into your pockets to spend on things you
need.
No acreage lost. No crops lost as they are being grown in the first
place. All is gained as now starch is being extracted not utilized
before in corn and oil is being extracted for fuel which is not healthy
for people to consume in quantity in the first place.
God bless.
