There's a lot on the internet about hemp being able to replace a lot of oil imports. But since it's illegal, no one in our gov't is interested. Probably also because it will do a good job. Hemp also does a lot of stuff. It's used to make clothes - but since we don't make anything in our coutry anymore, I guess we really don't have to care about that. It's used for ropes, sails, and a lot of other things. Favorite plants of our ancestors.
"From more than 1000 B.C. until 1883 hemp was the planet's largest agricultural crop and most important industry for thousands of products and enterprises. Hemp produced the majority of earth's fibers, fabrics, lighting oils, paper, incense, and the primary source of food oil and protein for humans and animals."
"Biodiesel can be made from domestically produced, renewable oilseed crops such as hemp. With over 30 million successful U.S. road miles hemp boidiesel could be the answer to our cry for cheaper fuel. We have spent the last century polluting our beautiful country with our petroleum based fuels that could have easily been replaced with fuels derived from hemp. It would only take 6% of our U.S. land to produce enough hemp, for hemp fuel, to make us energy independent from the rest of the world. Help us teach America the truth. Make yourself a human billboard that speaks only of the truth because the only thing standing between hemp being illegally and legal is ignorance."
"Hemp stems are 80% hurds (pulp byproduct after the hemp fiber is removed from the plant). Hemp hurds are 77% cellulose a primary chemical feed stock (industrial raw material) used in the production of chemicals, plastics, and fibers. Biodiesel is the name for a variety of ester based oxygenated fuels made from hemp oil, other vegetable oils or animal fats. The concept of using vegetable oil as an engine fuel dates back to 1895 when Dr. Rudolf Diesel developed the first diesel engine to run on vegetable oil. Diesel demonstrated his engine at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 using peanut oil as fuel."
http://www.artistictreasure.com/learnmorecleanair.htmlhttp://www.hemp.com/?002,25http://www.taima.org/en/fibre.htmhttp://www.ybiofuels.org/bio_fuels/history_biofuels.html