Hemp Hemp Hooray! Car made ENTIRELY of hemp

[Bennyboy]

The World’s Most Eco-Friendly Car: It’s Made Entirely From Hemp

You would never think that a single plant could solve most of the worlds problems, well it can. Hemp has over 50, 000 uses, why this plant remains illegal is causing confusion among many. Everything from clothes, medicine, fabrics, fuel and more, hemp is definitely a large threat to a variety of corporations that control energy, health and a number of other industries. Many corporations would see a decline in profit if hemp were to be legalized. One in particular this article will focus on is the automobile industry.

The worlds most Eco-friendly car, the Kestrel, was designed in Canada by Calgary-based Motive Industries INC. Unlike the United States government, the Canadian government is open to hemp farming and actively supporting the industrial hemp industry and it’s potential benefit for us and our environment.


http://csglobe.com/eco-friendly-car-made-entirely-hemp/

[struggle4progress]

1. The article's really chock-full of bull-shizz:

... This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a hemp car making noise, did you know that Henry Ford spent more than a decade researching and building his Model T car? This was in the 1940′s, it was completely made from hemp. This car was 10 times stronger than steel and was also designed to run off of hemp bio-fuel! ...

How many errors can be packed into a short paragraph?

[longship]

4. Yup! Model T built in the 1940's!!!!

I read it on the Intertubes so it must be true!

[solarhydrocan]

8. Instead of "Completely" it should have said "Partially"

The Hemp Car - Myth Busted

A friend of mine told me about a car by Henry Ford that was made almost entirely of hemp. It was unveiled as a prototype, and proclaimed to be the car of the future. Unfortunately, World War II and the DuPont corporation killed what would have been a lighter, safer and more cost effective car. I was asked to research the validity of this claim.

I had not heard of this car, so I googled it. Nearly every pro-hemp website mentioned it, but didn't give sources. Even YouTube has a video of this "hemp car" from 1941. It sounded like a good idea, and Henry Ford was certainly a visionary, but I really wanted the truth (I'm not anti-hemp; I'm pro-facts and anti-myth.) ....

....



(article continues) Mr. Ford tested the pliability of the plastic panel by swinging on it with an axe. The panel was unchanged after the blow, but a similar experiment on a steel panel cut through the metal. ...



Needed materials, he said, would include 100,000 bales of cotton, 500,000 bushels of wheat, 700,000 bushels of soy beans and 500,000 bushels of corn. "Plastic raw materials may cost a little more," he said, "but we anticipate a considerable saving as the result of fewer fabricating finishing operations."
-"Ford Shows Auto Built of Plastic - Strong Material Derived from Soy Beans, Wheat, Corn is used for Body and Fenders," New York Times, 14 August 1941.

http://theangryhistorian.blogspot.com/2010/10/hemp-car-myth-busted.html

Almost anything made from plastic can be made from hemp.

How is it that English Farmers can grow this crop but the Rebels that beat them cannot?

[Bennyboy]

14. That's good info there

I too had only heard about the hemp car and FORD but never looked into it.

[freshwest]

10. Hold on! This is a religion. If you don't have faith, you'll never understand the magical qualities.

This realm is unsullied by skeptics.

It would be best to tread softly now.

We don't want to oppress anyone.

P. S. There is an international angle.

See ya later, s4p.

[MADem]

2. Didn't they do that in a Cheech and Chong movie?

[jmowreader]

7. I don't think they plan to dissolve this one to recover the hemp

"Hey man, how far you going?"

'Oh, right here would be fine, man!'

[socialist_n_TN]

11. And yes, this is the first thing I thought of......

[Politicalboi]

3. I wonder why they made it electric

They should have used Hemp fuel to complete it like Ford did. It probably would go faster, and you wouldn't need to charge it or deal with batteries.

[solarhydrocan]

6. like the Hempcar in 2001- powered by hemp oil

http://hempcar.org/

If the media wasn't owned by 4 or 5 corporations more people would have heard about this.

[seveneyes]

5. completely made from hemp

While I am all for hemp production, a functioning vehicle can not be "completely made from hemp". Frame, glass, wheels, tires, motor, brakes, instruments, wires, bolts etc are not of hemp made.

[freshwest]

9. And the engine burning that hemp oil. Not so fast...

[L0oniX]

12. Kestrel? Why not Canabis or Sativa or Splif or ...

Being made in Canada I think Cana.bis would have been better.

[MineralMan]

13. Oh, not ENTIRELY.

Not at all. Overstated titles spoil the post, IMO.