Biofuels Digest’s Hallowe’en offering: “The Magic Beans of Freedonia”

To celebrate Hallowe’en and the harvest season, with its traditions of ghouls and trolls, the Digest offers its own illustrated, comic, cautionary tale:  “The Magic Beans of Freedonia”.

A group of Freedonian farmers find that buying low-cost fuel from Trolls from the East…doesn’t work out exactly as planned.

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