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Originally Posted by Acepimp
Did you know that hemp plants can be converted into clean-burning charcoal? Why didn't Obama legalize it?
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Well first he's not president anymore, and 2nd, changing the subject doesn't help you win any arguments.
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Originally Posted by Acepimp
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.
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Maybe, but -
As clean energy rises, West Virginia looks past Trump’s embrace of coal to what comes next
Coal Mining Jobs Are Being Replaced By Clean Energy
The US coal industry is going out, not with a whimper, but with a burst of rent-seeking
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-envir...ustry-handouts
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Originally Posted by Acepimp
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).
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/judecle.../#247589ecf60f
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Originally Posted by Acepimp
Ford's hemp car was 3 times as green as today's electric cars.
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https://cleantechnica.com/2018/05/23...-of-bio-fuels/