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To: Red Badger
okay... let me get this straight... we set aside 250 acres so that a "small farm" can have enough diesel fuel, right?

So, a large modern farm can almost produce enough fuel to provide for its own needs... nothing to sell to the public, just enough to feed its own tractors?

This is almost as bad as the whole "grow grain for ethanol" fiasco.
3 posted on 11/01/2006 10:53:38 AM PST by TWohlford
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To: TWohlford

Remember this is from Australia. They have to import all their oil. So for them it may be economically viable.......


4 posted on 11/01/2006 10:56:41 AM PST by Red Badger (ECCLESIASTES 10 The heart of the wise inclines to the RIGHT, but the heart of the fool to the LEFT.)
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To: TWohlford

>>>This is almost as bad as the whole "grow grain for ethanol" fiasco.

Are you in the "once corn is used for ethanol there's noting left" crowd? If so, you're woefully ignorant.


5 posted on 11/01/2006 10:59:31 AM PST by Keith in Iowa (Liberals: People whose relationship to reality appears to be somewhat tenuous.)
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To: TWohlford

A hectare is about 2 acres not 250 acres.


7 posted on 11/01/2006 11:00:47 AM PST by WesternPacific
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To: TWohlford

1 hectare = 2.5 acres, not 250.

http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictH.html


9 posted on 11/01/2006 11:01:50 AM PST by nina0113
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To: TWohlford
we set aside 250 acres

Um. 1 hectare is 2.47 acres.

10 posted on 11/01/2006 11:02:31 AM PST by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com†|Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: TWohlford
okay... let me get this straight... we set aside 250 acres so that a "small farm" can have enough diesel fuel, right?

Wrong. 1 hectare = 2.47 acres.

14 posted on 11/01/2006 11:16:12 AM PST by r9etb
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To: TWohlford

1 hectare = 2.47105381 acres


19 posted on 11/01/2006 11:35:20 AM PST by spookadelic
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