david's Comments

I don't know how much our government spends on crop subsidies any more. The idea that a cash crop (peanuts), well suited to biodiesel production, could be grown on land we are PAYING people not to cultivate is more than a little infuriating. The investment capital used to develop production and distribution facilities, an increase in the number of admittedly low paying agricultural jobs (but also well related to our failures in the classroom) should really be a shot in the arm to our confused economy. It must be feasible at some point, as Germany nearly drove us to our knees with our own peanut oil in WWII.