Re: Media done a good job bashing E85.....

Posted by RJ on June 06, 2009 at 06:20:00 from (208.69.208.30):

In Reply to: Re: Media done a good job bashing E85..... posted by rustyfarmall on June 04, 2009 at 02:53:38:

I"ll never use alcohol gas ever again, tried some back in the 80"s in my 69 Coupe Deville. It ate the varnish off the inside of the tank, clogging the filter 50 miles from nowhere. Tried it after that in a fuel injected motor, what a loss in power and mileage, could"nt hardly pull my trailer up the local pass from Laramie. Hemp on the other hand produces more Diesel per acre than any other crop. Rudolph Diesel ran his 1st motors on Hemp just for that reason. What did the first Gutenberg bible, Christopher Columbus’ ropes and sails, the Declaration of Independence and the first American flag have in common? All were made from hemp. Indeed, many of America’s forefathers, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, earned a living at one point in their lives growing and selling hemp, which was used to make everything from Fuel to paper to rope to sails to clothing. During World War II the crop was of such strategic importance for making clothing that the U.S. government provided farmers with subsidies to convert other types of fields over to hemp cultivation.

Hemp is a renewable and easy-to-grow crop that is tough enough to substitute for paper or wood and malleable enough to be made into clothing and even a biodegradable form of plastic. Meanwhile, hemp oil is all the rage among natural foods gourmands, who enjoy its nutty flavor and its healthy amounts of protein and omega fatty acids. Hemp is also a popular ingredient in many new hand and body lotions.

Environmentalists and farmers alike appreciate hemp as an alternative to cotton for clothes and trees for paper. Unlike cotton, hemp does not require large doses of pesticides and herbicides as it is naturally resistant to pests and grows fast, crowding out weeds. To make paper, trees must grow for many years, while a field of hemp can be harvested in a few months and make four times the paper over a few decades. Also, the making paper from hemp uses only a fraction of the chemicals required to turn trees into paper.
With their American competition out of the running, Canadian farmers have been reaping hemp’s financial rewards, especially following a ruling by a U.S. federal court that hemp-made products could be imported into the U.S. In 2005, the Canadian hemp industry tripled the amount of acreage dedicated to the crop to meet rising demand, according to the Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance.

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