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Old 02-07-2008, 09:24 PM
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Soy beans are available year around it's called grain bins and all that land south of the equator. Soy oil is trading at $4.05 a gallon. If they get the dollar back from the government, they're sitting at $3.05 for feedstock, 39 cents for lye/alcohol per gallon of oil processed, that's $3.44 plus heat, electricity, labor, bank notes(if any). I don't see how any of them can make it using virgin feedstock. But if you do some digging, they're not making it. The big ginormous, 100mgy plants are running at 10% capacity or they're still doing "hydro testing" 8 months after they're published start-up date. It's going to get interesting, WVO is getting that way.