Originally Posted by Acepimp

Did you know that hemp plants can be converted into clean-burning charcoal? Why didn't Obama legalize it?




I live near coal country and am totally anti-coal. The real reason for loss of coal jobs is the MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL. Rather than hire people to dig coal underground, they just use a few tons of explosives to blow the top off the mountain, then push the debris over the hill- burying thousands of miles of streams. It's disgusting. Coal production has INCREASED with fewer workers.




The internal combustion engine is NOT THE PROBLEM. It's the petroleum fuel. Rudolph Diesel designed the diesel engine to run on peanut oil. Henry Ford was building cars that ran on clean Ethanol from plants (mainly hemp). Congress outlawed hemp in 1937 after the oil companies lobbied for it. Ford's hemp car was 3 times as green as today's electric cars.