Pubdate: Thu, 24 May 2007 Source: Windsor Star (CN ON) Copyright: 2007 The Windsor Star Contact: http://www.canada.com/windsor/windsorstar/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/501 Author: Trevor DeBlock THERE ARE WAYS FOR US TO CUT HIGH FUEL PRICES Are you tired of paying high gas prices? Notice that gas prices soar, every time a holiday rears its head? Are you fed up with politicians not shaking the oil tree? These oil companies are making record profits. Well, we all can do something about this. However, once again, we need to educate ourselves on the history of oil, and its coinciding history with hemp. The first automobile Henry Ford made ran on hemp methanol. However, it was quickly to change. Refining and drilling oil, rather than farming and refining hemp, was a means to keep power and money to a select few who in turn had the means to lobby lawmakers. They then outlawed the only serious threat to their power distribution scheme. Consequently, everyone would now live in fear of prosecution for seeking to be an independent methanol producer. Under their oppression, everyone now has to work harder to meet our energy needs. Since one acre of hemp produces approximately 1,000 gallons of methanol; we most likely would not even need these energy companies. That is, until we decided to travel. Hemp can save our trees, process massive amounts of CO2, and medicate and relax an overworked society. The science is all at you fingertips. The information you need to know is all there in the history books and on the Internet. We must step outside the box to begin to comprehend what we can do about high gas prices. TREVOR DeBLOCK Windsor - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake