04-27-2008, 01:11 PM
THANK YOU DR JAMES!
We must get beyond the whole hemp deal. Listen, I don't care if you smoke the stuff. Puff on! Its mostly harmless, and certainly makes anyone who smokes it harmless as well. But the fact is as an industrial fiber or oil its an extraordinarily destructive soil deleter, worse than cotton, which is difficult. I've done a lot of restoration ship rigging, working with some of the more important hemp rigged vessels of the late 1700s. I know hemp as a fiber, as a material, though ironically not as a recreational substance. There is nothing to commend it, except, at one point in history, it was the only game in town. There was a program that compelled farmers in the US to farm the stuff, to support the navy, such that it was. They mostly, historically rebelled, as it would destroy a field for years. That IS the history.
The single largest promoter, per dollar, of hemp propagation in this world is BP. Don't take my word for it, verify that, if you doubt.
Oh, and while I'm at it. The Diesel engine was designed to run on COAL DUST, not on vegetable oil. Just to set yet another record straight.
Biofuels is a lost cause, and worse. People go hungry now because progressives do not understand the history nor the science. I fear in a huge way that cane WILL come back to Hawaii, but the fact is we need land for food, like many, and that would be a terrible mistake.
We must get beyond the whole hemp deal. Listen, I don't care if you smoke the stuff. Puff on! Its mostly harmless, and certainly makes anyone who smokes it harmless as well. But the fact is as an industrial fiber or oil its an extraordinarily destructive soil deleter, worse than cotton, which is difficult. I've done a lot of restoration ship rigging, working with some of the more important hemp rigged vessels of the late 1700s. I know hemp as a fiber, as a material, though ironically not as a recreational substance. There is nothing to commend it, except, at one point in history, it was the only game in town. There was a program that compelled farmers in the US to farm the stuff, to support the navy, such that it was. They mostly, historically rebelled, as it would destroy a field for years. That IS the history.
The single largest promoter, per dollar, of hemp propagation in this world is BP. Don't take my word for it, verify that, if you doubt.
Oh, and while I'm at it. The Diesel engine was designed to run on COAL DUST, not on vegetable oil. Just to set yet another record straight.
Biofuels is a lost cause, and worse. People go hungry now because progressives do not understand the history nor the science. I fear in a huge way that cane WILL come back to Hawaii, but the fact is we need land for food, like many, and that would be a terrible mistake.