It wouldn't be a bad thing if you could produce your own bio-diesel with the meat cuttings. You might have the time and certainly have the knowledge of chemistry. There seem to be some more changes in the wind.

OPEC + announced further crude oil production cuts a few weeks ago.



https://www.reuters.com/business/ene...ts-2023-04-02/

That's bound to drive energy costs higher. That will trigger even more inflation for everything we buy at the store. About the only good i can see coming from it all is that it should help support higher scrap metal prices.

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Smelts ... wow ... blast from the past. Catching smelts when they were running was a big thing here in my grandfather & father's day. Fishing is a prime driver of our local economy. It's so sad. We must have fished over 25 different species prior to the 1970's but the resource has been all but laid to waste now. The smelts haven't run here in years. Most of what little is left revolves around lobster fishing.

Was talking with a commercial lobster fisherman a few months ago and he said : " Now I know what Custer's last stand must have felt like. "

The Gulf of Maine is warming faster than any other body of water in the world. The lobsters are gradually migrating North away from the heat to the cooler waters off the coast of Canada. Good for you guys but not so great for us here in the states. Our way of life is slowly slipping through our fingers. Ohh well ....