Pubdate: Fri, 30 Sep 2005
Source: Similkameen Spotlight (CN BC)
Copyright: 2005 Similkameen Spotlight
Contact:  http://www.similkameenspotlight.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3484
Author: Russell Barth

WE SHOULD BE FUELLING WITH HEMP

Editor:

I am writing regarding our current gas prices.

Whatever you do, don't go to Google and type in "industrial hemp." If
you do, Big Oil will be very mad at you.

The oil industry would be really upset if the media were to let the
general public know we could entirely replace crude oil - a finite
commodity - with a clean-burning, easy-growing, cheaply-processed,
endlessly-renewable plant material.

They would be absolutely furious if all of us - who are entirely
dependant on them - were to suddenly find out hemp has 25,000
industrial applications, including car fuel, polymers (plastic), food,
fibre, medicine, building materials and paper. We might actually
realize we don't even need crude oil and where would their profits be
then? Who will pay for their luxury, if not the general public?

We should all take a moment to imagine a future where the air, soil
and water were clean, fuel was cheap and where multibillion-dollar oil
corporations didn't rule the world and start illegal wars - because
that is the last thing the oil companies would want us to do and it is
actually possible.

Russell Barth

Ottawa
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