Hi Luxo, I'll keep this relatively brief because a thorough response to your wall of text would be far too large a wall of text.
Grass (seed) is grain, if that makes things clearer for you (wheat, oats, corn, millet, rice etc. are all members of the grass family - the majority of the grain consumed across the globe is grass). Growing grass/grain in conventional ways is obviously a more efficient way of feeding cows (or humans directly) than growing algae in enclosed boxes. We can feed more people that way, whether we're eating the grain or feeding it to cows and eating them.
Your argument about flooding the market and killing the price of their own product not mattering makes no sense. If they kill the price they can't profit from it, and can't make the jump to biofuel. There generally isn't an appreciable delay in commodity prices if the market is flooded. Almost immediately the price either drops of people stop buying the product. It's not like they will spend an appreciable amount of time paying premium prices in a flooded market. Is there sufficient growth in this specific part of the alternative health product market to absorb the new supply? If a company has a history of coming good on its promises and performing well, it is easy to trust bold statements, perhaps even without much backing. When a company with a history of failing to meet deadlines, complete projects or keep promises makes bold statements with many implied questions going unanswered, surely it raises concerns. This is the same company which claimed to be able to produce algae oil at half the price of crude (I still can't fathom that claim). Do you trust that they have their figures correct in a far more speculative and unpredictable sector?
You quote my concern about the dropping price then quote their indicative sale price. That's great, but my concern is that bulk supply will drop the price. If you want to assume their price predictions will hold we can disagree, wait and see.
It's strange that you would use specific quotes and statements of mine, attack me, saying I am everything you despise and other vicious things, facetiously put words in my mouth accusing me of making attacks, and then sarcastically say you look forward to my rebuttal, implying I would be nasty about it.
I think your youthful idealism and optimism has you believing this story because you want to believe it. It initially caught my attention because I liked it and wanted to believe it to, but being burned in that way before I am now a bit more sceptical. Call me jaded if you like, but life teaches me again and again not to be too quick to believe what I *want* to be true, or, at least it teaches me that I shouldn't.
Hi Luxo, I'll keep this relatively brief because a thorough...
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