Mercedes that runs on diesel & HEMP?!!

[Cummnzpowr]

OMG you guys gotta check this stuff out,thought you would get a kick out of it.

www.hempcar.org

 

[illflem]

When Henry Ford told a New York Times reporter that ethyl alcohol was "the fuel of the future" in 1925, he was expressing an opinion that was widely shared in the automotive industry. "The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumac out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust -- almost anything," he said. "There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years. "

Ford recognized the utility of the hemp plant. He constructed a car of resin stiffened hemp fiber, and even ran the car on ethanol made from hemp. Ford knew that hemp could produce vast economic resources if widely cultivated. But the system was too simple and the petro companies did all they could to thwart it. When you think about the whole complexity of extracting oil from the earth and refining fuel from it-it requires a large capitol investment that can only be realized by a huge corporation. Bio-fuels give power back to the common person.

 

[Power Wagon]

Henry Ford was quite a bit of a Socialist too. Not sure I'd quote him as an authority on much.



Sure, we can produce alcohol, and it's easy enough to grow stuff to make into it, but cost-effective, it is not.



And, seeing as how our farmland is being turned into idle land at fantastic rates by the eco-freaks, who seem determined to stamp out agriculture, forestry, and eveyr other form of providing anything in this country, "renewable" is no longer possible. I could be, I suppose, that the green's obsession with stamping out all farming, ranching, logging, mining, hydropower, power generation, nuclear power, and use of our natural resources in any form, might suddenly evaporate if they were allowed to grow pot. Or hemp. (Actually, they haven't the faintest interest in hemp, they just want pot. ) In fact, the memberships of the radical green groups and the "legalize pot" crowd are almost identical. Many of them have tried to stop farming in many places, and have promoted efforts to get the goverment to buy up farmland and forever lock it away into "wildlife preserves" to gaurantee it will never be useful to man. On occaision, they have proposed government purchase of vast areas of farmland to have the GOVERNMENT grow hemp.



Oh, did I say Ford was a Socialist?



Seems some things don't change much...

 

[tgbol]

I can just see trying to convince my wife that the hemp in the back yard is for fuel for the truck.

 

[illflem]

Guess that's why Socialist Canada will beat us to the punch now that they've legalized hemp cultivation.



"Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country. " -Thomas Jefferson



"Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere. " -George Washington, 1794





Hemp grown for biomass makes very poor grade marijuana. The 20 to 40 million Americans who smoke marijuana would loath to smoke hemp grown for biomass, so no one could make a dime selling a farmers hemp biomass crop as marijuana.

 

[Shovelhead]

Originally posted by tgbol

I can just see trying to convince my wife that the hemp in the back yard is for fuel for the truck.









I can see you trying to explain to the DEA that the hemp's for truck fuel.

 

[redneckdr]

hemp..........

grew wild around where i grew up. cows who ate it acted kinda funny. guess that's why pop called it loco weed??? word had it that some of the younger generation used to dry it and smoke it. i must say, it sure seemed to "fuel" them up

 

[tgbol]

Shovelhead

I would rather take my chances with the DEA than my wife, she is Italian and the Italians invented the word vendetta.

 

[Shovelhead]

TGBOL,

I know whatcha mean.

My Wifey is from Peru, as in waaaaay south.

Like many hispanic women (they invented the term Bobbitized)... . if she's ticked off at me, it's time to hide the kitchen knives, and sleep with one eye open.

 

[Briar Hopper]

ROFLMAO @ Shovelhead !!!! You're toooooo funny!

 

[Rcpilotlv]

Ever hear of "Mechanical Marijuana"..... Trucks Love It!

 

[tgbol]

Oh Boy! An Illegal Smile on My Truck!

 

[redneckdr]

mechanical m

i thought that was ether. seems if you use ether to get a diesel goin' repeatedly, they get to the point, they get addicted???

 

[Steve Roseman]

Re: hemp..........

Originally posted by redneckdr

grew wild around where i grew up. cows who ate it acted kinda funny. guess that's why pop called it loco weed??? word had it that some of the younger generation used to dry it and smoke it. i must say, it sure seemed to "fuel" them up

Hemp grows wild in the ditches around here It's not any good for smoking, will give you... . I mean, I heard it will give you a headache



On the subject of Henry Ford, maybe he was just an entrepreneur and not a socialist. Not trying to start an argument, I've never even read a biography on the man.

 

[redneckdr]

hemp

steve:

i grew up in MO, just south of the iowa line. supposedly the hemp that grew in the ditches and pastures was brought into that area in hay brought into the region in the drought of the 1930's from out west somewhere. headaches didn't seem to stop some of the younger folks from smokin' it--prolly still do.

 

[Steve Roseman]

I had heard that the hemp used to be a crop during the 30's and 40's, used for rope and other products. I know somewhere out in South Dakota people are trying to get a hemp coop started, using the pulp in paper. It would sure help the farmers by giving them another crop to profit from.

Nobody can plant it legally since the federal government prohibits it. Maybe too many of the politicians are all too familiar with the side effects ... lol.

I forgot, it's OK if you don't inhale