Steve B.

Steve, Since your the energy guru. I have a serious problem which has probably made me get anti-environmentalist attitude.
I have been working with 300 indigenous families. We have millions of gallons of a polluted sugary/alcholic waste from coffee processing that is polluting their rivers. After hundreds of phone calls it seemed to me all the smart greenies wanted atleast $1,000 a day for techical assistance in bio-diesel/ethanol production questions. They didn't seem to care about these poor people trying to help themselves be sustainable but only cared about extremely lucrative consulting deals or large government grants. The energy problem for me is that clean energy is only available to the rich who have the resources to use any energy form they please. The poor have no choice except to suffer and wait 30 years until it trickles down. If you know any NGO's offering assistance to poor in rural energy production. let me know.. Thanks for your work, despite my negativism. I want everybody to have a clean environment.

Steve, I might be a little on the eccentric side for a 28 year old. But from Dec- through March every year the last 10 years I have not used any petroleum(except for an occasional chainsaw). I have 2 mules, no electricity, no nothing just a lot of manual labor farming to do 10 Zapotec indian friends with me out in the woods. I have a landscaping business, we use toyota pickup and isuzu diesels which are the most efficient vehicles, we have very tight routes as to not drive more than 30miles a day. Its driven by economics first, and conservation 2nd.
I now have 130 acres of woods and praire. I cut hay once a year, otherwise it gets planted with 4,000 trees every spring and sits there.. It gets hunted a little and thats it.. Its what all my conservative christian friends. For us, its a responsibility for each citizen to due his part without gloating, and we believe this is a not government issue but a personal security issue and improving ou

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Good on you I think you understood what I was trying to say