Cuban beekeeping

[paus]

I totally agree with sawdust maker. I read an article somewhere,  yeah , yeah, I know that's like "they say".  There was a list of all the tractors, trucks and of the BTUs used in making ethanol, this research summed all of the BTUs and it took 55,000 BTUs to produce one gallon of 38,000 BTU ethanol. Someone didn't think this out.

[Dallasbeek]

Even so, if it didn't reduce vehicles mileage and destroy small engines (like lawn mowers, etc.), maybe it wouldn't be such a disaster.

[little john]

Every newspaper in the world has it's own agenda, and although I wouldn't expect the international audience to know this - the Guardian is very much a Left Wing newspaper - so you'd expect it's articles to be biased favourably towards Cuba.

Just because an article appears in print, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's not biased, or even based on fact.
LJ

[BeeMaster2]

Even so, if it didn't reduce vehicles mileage and destroy small engines (like lawn mowers, etc.), maybe it wouldn't be such a disaster.

Add to that list tractors, weed wackers, chain saws and everyother engine on the farm. It destroys rubber seals in no time.

[paus]

My local time is 2:05 as I start to write.  about ten minutes ago  I came in  from the cool where a friend and I have been working on a log splitter that took us over 3 hrs to get running because of ethanol in the gasoline. It had softened or dissolved all of the hoses and gaskets. 

[Michael Bush]

>Supposedly 100% organic and allegedly loss-free beekeeping.

Isolationism has it's advantages and it's disadvantages...

[KeyLargoBees]

 Living in extreme south Florida I have quite a few friends who still have family in Cuba trust me the Cubans don't consider it "organic" farming they consider it subsistence farming and the only reason they don't use pesticides or fertilizers other than cow manure and compost  is because they can't get it because of the communist scenario being played out there....that article has some glaring misinformation in places and paints a much rosier picture than is portrayed by the family of Cubans still stuck there.

[Acebird]

the Cubans don't consider it "organic" farming they consider it subsistence farming

I wonder what percentage of Cubans die of cancer, Alzheimer, Parkinson and heart disease.

[KeyLargoBees]

Hard to say because if there's one thing a communist government is better at than even the Clinton's....it's media control ;-)

[jimineycricket]

I wonder what percentage of Cubans die of cancer, Alzheimer, Parkinson and heart disease.

I suspect that the percentage of old age conditions is less than in a place where the life expectancy is 60 years. 

[Acebird]

Fidel 90, Rual 85, still living, Juanita 83, still living.  Poverty has a lot to do with a short life span.  The environment and the food you eat has a lot to do with how healthy you are.

[Jim134]

Even so, if it didn't reduce vehicles mileage and destroy small engines (like lawn mowers, etc.), maybe it wouldn't be such a disaster.

Add to that list tractors, weed wackers, chain saws and everyother engine on the farm. It destroys rubber seals in no time.

I see you have the exact same idea as the farmer where I keep my honeybees. What he does send someone to the airport to get Aviation gas. He tells me he has a lot less repairs on all his machinery. Plus he has more power on his chain saws and small engines then with pump gas.


       BEE HAPPY Jim 134  :)

[BeeMaster2]

I now buy ethanol free gas. It cost about 65 cents more per gallon but it does not damage my equipment.
Jim

[Michael Bush]

>Hard to say because if there's one thing a communist government is better at than even the Clinton's....it's media control ;-)

Well, now they passed their "fake news bill" so it's coming...

[Ben Framed]

Supposedly 100% organic and allegedly loss-free beekeeping.



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/09/organic-honey-is-a-sweet-success-for-cuba-as-other-bee-populations-suffer

The original post and its intent is Interesting. The rest sound like politics of the Coffeehouse lol

[paus]

Just a thought.  Producing ethanol takes 55,000 BTU, mostly diesel to produce one gallon of ethanol which has only 38,00 but per gallon.  Typical logic for our "Rulers".  Phillip you are right but here is my first thought anyway.