Sent this email to Anheuser-Busch, the makers of Budweiser beer.

Think they'll bite?

Good morning,
While standing outside my work today on a smoke break, there's a bar across the street, the waste management truck pulled up and you could hear the clinking of thousands upon thousands of bottles being disposed of.

It made me think, ONE of the main reasons glass is so hard to recycle, is the lables, no one wishes to deal with the waste and hassle of removing them to recycle a bottle.

Here's the solution, remember those coke bottles back in the 1960's and before? Molded, or in today's terms, etched with your logo, would remove that issue completely.

Yeah you might pay more for the bottle, but no more lable expense. And we'd have a totally recycleable bottle from America's largest beer company.

Check it out in wikipedia, Canada, England and quite a few other European countries enjoy a 98% recycling rate for bottles.

Help remove the stumbling blocks, become America's first Beer Company to take another step to going green for our children.

To be honest, I dont drink beer, Im a whiskey drinker, but when I think of beer, I think of Budweiser, and that means A-B, all of the great commercials, tradition and American values.

Etched bottles would help drive people (especially bar owners) to segregate their bottles by color to improve recycling efforts. And they'd look so totally freaking awesome, all retro and such.

What do you say AB? Are you willing to take the first step towards a brighter future for our children?

By the way, I grow jatropha curcas for biodiesel in Corpus Christi, Tx. I've offered to grow it for free for an A-B distributor here in town. No reply yet. That would have been awesome. Your trucks, running on biodiesel, polluting less, carrying lableless bottles to improve recycling efforts.

Ah well. One can dream cant they?

Hope to see your etched bottles soon! Think of the marketing you guys can do with THAT!!!

respectfully with an eye to the future,
Clint Cheek.

   in Ingleside Tx.  2750 trees to plant by spring.

will be a nice little proof of concept.

Finally!

wooooot!

Looking all over the southern side of Texas for cheap land.

Tried partnering up with land owner's. Not much interest there, unfortunately.

Tried talking to the city manager of corpus christi, scheduled a meeting, which he ducked out of, waited an hour and 20 minutes only to find out he'd skipped out somewhere. Left a decently put together business plan for him to read at his leisure, havent heard a word back from the city at this point.

Guess I have to concede they have no interest at all.

You'd think with the depressed economy, housing starts in the dumps, that the prices of land would be coming down? nope, still over 10K per acre in places i wouldnt pay 10 bucks an acre for.

I'll keep looking, getting so bummed about it though HA!

I read in biodiesel magazine the other day that Valero was closing 2 refineries up north since there is a shortage of available oil to process into fuel. And that the ME isnt going to increase output to help drive up the prices. Also that consumers couldnt stand much of a fuel price increase since the economy is still in the dumps.

you'd think with all of that going on, that someone would take a gamble or more of a gamble on biodiesel. there's even less interest than before.

More airlines are testing biofuel blends, everything seems to be pointing toward a greener choice (at least to me) and the public interest in it is dismal.

another oil crunch of the 70's is about what it would take to wake most people up i suppose.

hate to see it happen though. kind of funny watching 8 out of 10 vehicles pass by and its a huge honking SUV with 1 person in it, speeding, getting 7MPG (joke).

I dont know what it means but here it is. I have about 100 seeds of the "supposed" non-toxic variety of jatropha curcas.

I planted 20. they are shorter, paler in color, dont grow as fast (initial observations).

i brought one up to work (air conditioned, the windows are tinted) and set it by the door.

along with 3 "toxic" plants (jc again),

now the non toxic variety is just as dark in color as the others. watering once every 2 weeks perhaps. but it looks a LOT healthier and has more leaves and they're getting bigger.

perhaps a more cold tolerant variety?

one can only wonder.

I have about 65 trees going now, they are doing very well with the daily watering.

Also, check out my brother's new restaurant in Wicsonsin.

theboneyardtexaspitbbq.com

Tell yer friends about it if they are close by. its amazing Texas Bar B Que, toned down just a little for the yanks. :)

Selling seedlings now, amazing that the leaves get so big. This little guys will make perfect shade trees for any yard. I have them on craigslist at $15.00 each. I've sold quite a few and people are extremely happy that these trees will be providing as much shade as they do.

Add in the natural repellant for mosquitos, and most types of vermin, and the fact you can obtain PVO for biodiesel and its  a win/win/win situation all the way around.

I've about 80 trees at the moment and have planted more. So if you're wanting to start off small and learn about them, grow a few in your yard and check it out.

you wont be sorry you tried.

email clcheek@yahoo.com

or call me at 361-792-0142 to place your order now.

Limited quantities on hand and they are going FAST!

Hi everyone,

sorry for the delay in posting, I've been job hunting. I've planted another round of seeds. So I am up above 100 seedlings again. Preparing for the move to Tyler hopefully. I'll have 2 acres to grow on up there exclusively for jatropha curcas.

I spoke with a fellow IT type in the Rio Grande Valley and he has 25 acres. He is very receptive to the idea of planting about 5-8 acres of jatropha there. Its fairly exicting as the drive from Corpus isnt too bad, but the drive from Tyler would be a nightmare. He's also a pilot and has his own plane and runway so I dont know, maybe we can work something out about coming down to manage the orchard and save on all of the driving.

I am very anxious to get back up to Tyler though and see how the test plants are doing with the terra preta. They should be huge by now (hoping).

anyhow, I am also growing jalapenos, bell peppers, miniature bell peppers, corn and watermelon (just a few of each). My brother has opened a Bar B Que restaurant in Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin and needs a supply of jalapenos for an appetizer he's created. Marinated chicken breast, wrapped in a half of a jalapeno, wrapped in bacon, roasted over a grill (Texas Style). So Im hoping to grow those for him too. Since peppers were the first item I wanted to grow in the first place.

Doing both would be incredible.

more seeds planted. I've taken some seedlings to Tyler, Tx. and planted them there.

3 of them had been planted in pots with terra preta. after only 2 weeks, the lower half of the soil I used to plant the jatropha curcas in, was pure black as if the terra preta had converted the rest of the soil into terra preta.

I think the plants in Tyler are going to do extremely well for the summer and fall. I hope they survive the winter. I'll be planting a lot of other stuff there as well,

raspberries, bell peppers, miniature bell peppers, roses, blackberries (already planted), grapes, probably some corn, watermelons, jalapenos and even more types of fruits, veggies, berries and such.

in the meanwhile, I've a nice little handful of jatropha curcas still growing in corpus, and I'll plant some more as well.

most of the people I've spoken with in the past about biofuels have lost contact lately, so I guess Im just growing it for fun now, without a care towards becoming a business.

c 'est la vie!

well, last years seeds are still germinating at a very acceptable rate. 14 seeds planted, 8 has come up so far. A few days left and I think a few more will come up.

So, I'll be taking about 20 seedlings up to east Texas, around Tyler, I've access to almost 23 acres of land there. I plan on transferring the seedlings to the land, and just letting them go all summer, fall and winter. I may get to get up to check on them occasionally, but I plan on letting them ride out the winter. If any survive, we just might have a cold weather strain.

Here's hoping they all make it, :D

For those of you who've asked where to get seeds in the U.S.

My first purchase was from Cary at lakebiofuels.com

the guy has thousands and thousands of seeds available. you can buy in bulk too.

if your ambition is a bit smaller, echonet.org out of florida will sell you a pack of about 13 seeds for I think $5.00. not bad to just check things out.

and I've had 95% germination with both varieties of seeds from these guys.

echonet.org also donates some percentage of the proceeds to charities, I dont know which.