Hemp Executives
Posted on 04/23/2006 9:03:02 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
I'm no dope smoker, nor do I support all the nonsense of the "libertarian" wing....but I think they are talking about the kind of Hemp with a THC content that would be more likely to give you a headache than a high.
Again, I'm no expert.....
The Greenies have started their campaigns and are out to convince everyone we can grow (looking for agriculture subsidies, hello) our way out of energy demands in spite of global demands.
Said another way, imagine the plethora of new ways to tax you and re-distribute that wealth in the form of bigger gubmint and higher spending.
I'm just picturing all the teenieboppers sniffing the tailpipes in the school parking lot.
Called my cousin, a long time rope burner, he said he get back with me in a couple of weeks. Next time I see him he'll say he hasn't talked to me in months.
Hemp Executives
The "Greenies" actually "started" this campaign around 30-40 years ago...
many of them pass for sensible conservatives with a Pro-America impulse. They have been in an evil conspiracy working for American energy independence since around 1973.
This particular bunch of wild eyed agitators inhabit such well known subersive institutions as the Univ. of Kentucky Agriculture department.
Yes, some are looking for subsidies...Unlike the noble oil companies, corn farmers, pork producers, milk producers, wheat farmers, steel plants, citrus growers, sugar growers.........
Maybe instead of deisigning tasteless tomatos that ship well, we can use our scientific rescorces to design a variety of hemp that produces a much larger yield of fuel per plant. Hemp can be used to make paper as well, is this not correct?
Whatever we do we must end our dependence on foreign oil, our 60 year pact with the devil and the resulting realpolitk that has gone with it. Further, it constitutes an easily disrupted supply line an equally easy corruption of our principles and ideals. Either we just kick arab ass and take their gas or we become self sustaining and bow to no one. Thereafter, if we want to make a point with China, Iran, N Korea, et al., we can always park several tarmacs in the straights of Hormuz.
But if you actually start building one of the very projects they originally suggested, the Greens will file suit to stop you from doing it. Look what happened to the windmills and fish farms.
For some reason, I doubt this would ever work. I guess because it hasn't been reported by anyone else. This reminds me of those urban myths about ultra efficient motors, and perpetual motion devices.
Wait a second, isn't biodeisel being produced in the US by some plant in Alabama which is processing chicken scraps?
That explains the lack of demand for it.
Too bad the anti-Volstead folks didn't think of this back when it was illegal to consume C2H6O. "Hey, why not alcohol? You can even burn this stuff in your Model T!"
Hemp? Give me a break...there's not enough land to grow what we would need.
Actually, biodiesel works better than I thought.
There was an old episode of Jeremy Clarkson's "Top Gear", where they put pure USED COOKING OIL from a french fry burner into an old Volvo diesel and ran the thing around a track. They had to add a cup of white gas to the tank first, but the thing kept on going and going and going.
The Economist has an article in this week's edition about this. It claims that bio-diesel becomes an economical alternative when oil hits about $80.00 per barrel.
It's actually their 'offspring' that we're dealing with now, lol.
Real greenies wouldn't have offspring.
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