Iowa is known for their corn, but all of my friends back home in North-Central Iowa grow soybeans for ethanol, and a little bit of corn for feed. LOTS of soybeans. They grow exclusively for fuel, it pays them pretty well, but they are also involved in the E85 'movement'. They also do tractor repair. These are very busy people in the spring and fall. My friends get bored in the winter, so they take up e85 politics to pass the dreary slow months, I swear.
----- Original Message ---- From: Jack Wood <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 8:47:21 PM Subject: [Texascavers] Re: $ 2.89 lowest price found - way OT!!!! warning!!! --- David Locklear <[email protected]> wrote: <snip> > But there is no E-85. [ I still haven't seen an E-85 pump yet, and > I have been keeping my eyes open for one. ] Nor did I see an(y) free > internet > station(s). <snip> David, you're too far south. I just returned from Utah and Colorado. Both Nebraska and Iowa have signs on the highway that indicate if the exit (this case I-80) has E-85 stations and then there were signs on the streets pointing the direction if it wasn't next to the interstate. I even saw one of the new ethanol plants out in the sticks of Iowa while driving down to Appanoose Co, from Montezuma. Makes sense in the two biggest corn(y) states. Texas isn't known for their corn belt, as I hear it. Iowa's rest-stops all seem to have free wi-fi and advertise the fact on their signage along the interstate. Seems most of the Texas rest-stop budget went to that one on I-40 my dad tells me about out near Amarillo. Calls it the Tom Delay memorial rest-area. Has bathroom attendants that hand you a towel. As for gasoline prices I'd previously find little difference between Chicago and Utah & west Colorado prices when I first started going out that direction 10 years ago. Chicago is running $3.50-ish and we were finding gas the whole way there and back around $3.15. Think the least we paid was $2.99 per gal, the most in Hanksville, UT was $3.45 a gal. We did note a 10-cent jump at the station we used coming and going in Kearney, NE though. BTW, Shiner Bock is now available here in Chicago. WTF? See all of you in Indiana in 63 days or in 2 months and 2 days. -JackW! ____________________________________________________________________________________Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] ____________________________________________________________________________________Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today! http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
