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 not centralized. In comparison, petroleum is capital intensive and therefore centralized. To maintain market share, the petroleum industries wanted to prohibit hemp. Our farmers need this valuable crop to be returned as an option for commercial agriculture.
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.
While marijuana is prohibited, industrial hemp will be economically prohibitive due to the artificial regulatory burdens imposed by the prohibition of marijuana. When marijuana and cannabis are legally regulated, industrial hemp will return to its rightful place in our agricultural economy.
Restoring industrial hemp to its rightful place in agriculture today will return much control to our farmers, and away from the multinational corporations that dominate our political process and destroy our environment. These capital-intensive, non-sustainable, and environmentally destructive industries have usurped our economic resources and clear-cut huge tracts of the world's forests, given us massive oil spills, wars, toxic waste, massive worldwide pollution, global warming and the destruction of entire ecosystems.