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To: CapitalistHogg™ who wrote (12700)	10/18/2008 5:53:01 PM
From: Bill on the Hill	9 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 50017

Not only does hemp beat per acre production of other plants the ROI of hemp could make untillable acres profitable and help relieve the fuel problem. Help it? Hell. Hemp could heal it. George Washington encouraged every citizen to grow hemp. Hemp is a great alternative to forest products. sustainableforestry.net A primer on the history of hemp production. venusproject.com Hemp bill sponsored by you know who..... video.google.com Control of hemp assures profit for oil. Simple. Hemp has been controlled by lobbyists in Washington since the late 30's. How many of you that read this believe hemp should be outlawed because someone is going to smoke it? How F'ing naive is that? If you want something to smoke, right out on your street corner you can score something much better than hemp plant. Probably as close as next door. Damn guys..... That is just stupid and nothing else. Hemp can help break the back of oil dominance. HEMP IS A MIRACLE PLANT! Its growing should be required. It is the most patriotic thing we could do. We could completely quit buying foreign oil if we focused only on hemp production. Hemp is better for biomass to produce fuel than corn or most other plants. An excerpt from a biomass paper. The U.S. chemical industry consumes more than 7% of America's petroleum and natural gas liquids to manufacture over 54 million metric tons of primary chemicals. The chemical industry plays a major role in the maintenance of our standard of living. Thousands of ordinary products used every day in every American household are made from a handful of primary chemical feedstocks. Biomass will compete favorably with fossil mass for niches in the chemical feedstock industry. Biomass has several advantages over fossil mass as a raw resource for this industry. Biomass is a renewable, flexible and adaptable resource. Crops can be grown to satisfy changing end-use needs. The success of the biomass derived chemicals industry will depend on the supply and demand for feedstocks, primary chemicals and key intermediates the petrochemical industry cannot make such as cellulose, lactic acid and levulinic acid. The first thermoplastics and synthetic fibers were made from cellulose derivatives. Acetaldehyde, a major petrochemical key intermediate, can be made from lactic acid. And levulinic acid salts have been proposed to replace ethylene glycol as an engine coolant.[14] Cellulose suitable for polymer manufacture is expensive. Petrochemical polymer substitutes were cheaper to produce and rapidly won over markets opened by cellulosic plastics and fibers. Whether cellulosics can win back those markets depends on finding an economical crop to grow as a cellulose resource and the ability of cellulosic polymer scientists to develop new properties that can be used to create new products. Pulpwood is the chief resource for cellulose production. Demand for wood by the paper industry has caused prices to increase. Some chemical manufacturers are looking at alternative crops. Government agencies are promoting kenaf as a cellulose crop superior to pulpwood. Hemp produces greater biomass tonnage per acre per year in more regions of America than either pulpwood or kenaf. Hemp farming is the key to providing large enough amounts of raw biomass at costs low enough to enable cellulose to recapture those lost markets. Hemp can do this because the natural fiber it produces, when sold to textile manufacturers, pays for the cost to grow the crop. The waste material or hurds that are left when the hemp fiber is removed from the biomass is 77% cellulose. The hemp plant makes five times as much hurds as it does fiber. ratical.org This is only ONE crop we could focus on. I it will take re-tooling and investment. Instead we spend our (taxpayers) money on rescuing banks. Before we change the hemp laws. We as a country are going to have to establish some vision and begin thinking for ourselves. Everything we have been told in the media is to SELL something to us. Make money harder to find and more Americans will wake up because they will soon find their "POCKETBOOK" vote more important. Our ballot box should be the dollars we spend. Hopefully soon it will be. Hemp makes economic sense in these times. Add a Capstone turbine to a field of hemp and you have renewable energy locally produced with minimum carbon costs to the environment. Be PATRIOTIC! Change the laws against HEMP PRODUCTION! It is our duty as AMERICANS! Bill harvestin' his hemp on the Hill

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