This isn't very authoritative - not much detail, no references to support it. Anyone know any more about this?
Best Keith http://crrh.org/cannabis/biodiesel.html Biodiesel We believe that the main reason hemp is illegal today is because of biodiesel's potential. The first diesel engines (by Rudolph Diesel in 1894) were invented to run on hempseed oil; petroleum wasn't synthesized to mimic hempseed oil for over a decade. Therefore hempseed oil was the primary fuel for automobiles for over 30 years after the invention of the first internal combustion engine. Entry into the biodiesel market has very low capital entry requirements and is, therefore, not centralized. Among the benefits of using biodiesel: Start an economic boom! Use vegetable seed oil (biodiesel). Run any diesel engine with no engine conversion at all. Make biodiesel from hemp, soybean, rapeseed/canola and safflower seed oil Save family farms. Return economic control to the people! Naturally decentralize wealth. Stop global warming. Stop A lot of toxic pollution. Create a useful byproduct: food. Petroleum is Out of Balance; Biodiesel is Sustainable and In Balance. In comparison, petroleum is capital intensive and, therefore, centralized. To maintain market share, the petroleum industries wanted to prohibit hemp. See a video in Hemp TV showing lies they used to protect petroleum and other capital intensive industries. http://crrh.org/cannabis/petroleum.html CRRH: Petroleum is capital intensive and pollutes. Use vegetable oil, biodeisel! Petroleum is Capital Intensive It takes Hundreds of Millions of Dollars to Locate and Pump Petroleum out of the Earth. It takes Tens of Billions of Dollars to Build and Operate a Facility to Refine Petroleum. Facts about Oil Refineries and Your Health: * Oil refineries dump thousands of pounds of toxic chemicals into communities every day! * Many toxic chemicals released by refineries into the environment cause cancer, birth defects, and serious health problems. * Odors from refineries can be more than a nuisance, such as hydrogen sulfide, which can cause serious health impacts or death. * Leaks in equipment, oil spills and flares can dump dangerous pollution anywhere. We don't have to use petroleum. Biodiesel is the solution! Brought to you by the Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp (CRRH), working to restore the plant that produces more fiber, protein and oil than any other plant on our planet. Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition Popularizing an obscure Mexican slang word, these powerful interests -- including William Randolph Hearst (the namesake of "yellow journalism"), who had bought up entire forests for his vast chain of newspapers -- orchestrated a nationwide campaign that played on racism and wildly lurid and inaccurate reports in order to prohibit hemp. They said that a deadly new drug called "marijuana" caused users to go insane and uncontrollably kill their family and friends. We call that misinformation campaign "Reefer Madness" (click here to see a Hemp TV clip from the movie), after a 1938 movie popularizing this hoax. The basis of marijuana prohibition is filled with lies and overt racism. Everyone knew what hemp was, but very few understood that marijuana was hemp when it was prohibited in 1937. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
