STUDY POTENTIAL OF HEMP USED IN FUELS

What can be done about the price of gas? It's simple -- alternative
fuels will replace carbon-based fuels in the future. What about now?

In "Popular Science Monthly", dated March 1941, Ford displays a car
that runs on ethanol distilled from hemp, and the car itself contains
hemp composites. What happened? Certain individuals stood to lose
fortunes in industries they dominated such as carbon fuels, paper
products and chemicals if hemp was cultivated.

Hemp is more cost effective than corn for ethanol, can grow almost
anywhere, does not need insecticides or fertilizer and has little to
no end waste product. It is the money tree.

What can be done about the price of gas? Nothing. Citizens do not
have the pull nor the money to buy the votes needed to wrestle
control of the government from the corporate giants.

It's odd that something done in 1941 is outlawed today. Why is gas
expensive? Because we are sheep waiting to be clipped.

- -- Carl Pawlik, Madison