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Subject: [OM] Re: [ot] alternative fuels
From: "Barry B. Bean" <bbbean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:47:28 -0500
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:45:04 -0700, Jan Steinman wrote:


>> From: "Barry B. Bean" <bbbean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Maybe so. But please allow me to suggest you spend a little more  
>> time talking to farmers and commodity traders and a little less  
>> time listening to people several steps removed from commodity
>> production. You might learn something.

>Ah, that's what it always comes down to: "I'm right and your wrong,  
>because I know where you get your information."

I'm sorry to learn that hat's how you understood my suggestion.

>Well, I'm a member of Canadian Organic Growers, and attend monthly  
>meetings, seminars, and classes, and have been working on an area  
>farm plan with others in our community, with the goal of making our  
>island community self-sufficient in food within ten years. But I  
>guess I'm talking to the wrong farmers, then, because they don't seem  
>to be saying the same things YOUR farmer friends are saying.

>We have a basic difference, Barry, one which we share with Moose: you  
>believe in commodities, I believe in localization. That's why I say  
>we must "agree to disagree." I don't try to make you look stupid.  
>Please give me the same respect.


>:::: Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum  
>tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000  
>vacuum tubes and weigh only 1 1/2 tons. -- Popular Mechanics, March 1949
>:::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Item/99AP35>



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Barry B. Bean
Bean & Bean Cotton Company
Peach Orchard, MO
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