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Fabs.............a lot of what you say is true except that all of these things aren't available in rural areas. Secondly, I can't (and most of the farmers I know can't) afford one of the new E85 trucks that can pull a big goose neck. I will not spend $60,000 to buy a new E85 truck to help anybody! And guess what buddy......I won't drive 100 miles to get the E85 fuel because that is the closest place I can get it. I can't even get it delivered yet because the fuel companies won't spend the $400,000 to put in the tank system to hold it due to low customer demand.
Most of you, who live near big centers think everything is so damned easy to get and it isn't. This is the same reason that liquid natural gas, propane, etc never caught on (besides the tank considerations) it was only avialable for vehicles in big centers and once you got out where I work and live you were SOL.
These things always sound good and urbania seems to think when they read about it in Time magazine that it is readily available. Not so.
Why is it that you guys who are making $300,000 always think these things are just a slam dunk for the rest of us. Since you appear to have an idea of how tough it is for farmers (and it is tougher up here in Canada because we don't get the type of government handouts that yours do.....and they are having troubles too) what makes you think everyone that is farming can go out and buy the latest toys, hoping that the fuel will be available and easy to get........when we are monkey wrenching tractors that are 30 years old to make ends meet.
If you want to buy me one of those E85 trucks I'll use it, but otherwise I am going to try and milk a few more years out of my existing vehicles, just as you are.
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