distributing off-road or on-road fuel for
profit (?)
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From: girl mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 10:24 PM
Subject: Re: [biofuels-biz] BD Business and Ability to be
Profitable-- does big vs small matter?
any idea on how
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Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 10:24 PM
Subject: Re: [biofuels-biz] BD Business and Ability to be
Profitable-- does big vs small matter?
any idea on how many small producers we';re talking about in the
us?
Mark
At 03:48 PM 11/25/2002 -0500, you wrote:
Hello again
Hello again. One charge that I have heard public policy folks levy at small
producers is along the following lines: Small producers can't make their
production business really profitable, so they're not going to be able to
contribute significantly to mass-market conversion from fossil fuels to
Hi Andrew,
I think that business case decisions are based on things like; people
employed, feedstock cost, chemicals cost, facility costs, equipment costs
and depreciation, etc.
It takes making up a business plan and proforma to find out at what level
of production and sales can be applied.
On the basis of this reasoning, it would then be best to eradicate
small farms and small farmers, for instance, and have it all replaced
by more efficient industrialized farming. Only it hasn't quite
worked out that way. What you tend to get instead is less efficiency,
or no efficiency, with
any idea on how many small producers we';re talking about in the us?
Mark
At 03:48 PM 11/25/2002 -0500, you wrote:
Hello again. One charge that I have heard public policy folks levy at small
producers is along the following lines: Small producers can't make their
production business really
On the basis of this reasoning, it would then be best to eradicate
small farms and small farmers, for instance, and have it all replaced
by more efficient industrialized farming. Only it hasn't quite
worked out that way. What you tend to get instead is less efficiency,
or no efficiency, with
