CrackerJax
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It was big cotton which squeezed the burgeoning hemp industry into oblivion if my memory serves me correctly.
The earth needs oil!!!
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HarvestFest2010
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I look at it like this, not so much a conspiricy, but a general ignorance. Plants can be grown in more ways than one. Ten minutes on this site will prove that.
True or False. There is a thread on this site about starting seeds in ones vagina. And how this increase the chances of it being female.
My point is if the black cloak, iron curtain is lifted, we may be able to finally figure this out. I also think yo like to play devils advocate, and god bless ya for it. I am a huge a-hole online.
True or False. There is a thread on this site about starting seeds in ones vagina. And how this increase the chances of it being female.
My point is if the black cloak, iron curtain is lifted, we may be able to finally figure this out. I also think yo like to play devils advocate, and god bless ya for it. I am a huge a-hole online.
vh13
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When it comes to man hours, oil is a far more efficient energy source then growing any yearly crop. The problem with oil is that it takes millions of years of dense forest growth to equal what we're near exhausting in a few hundred years. The rate of consumption grossly outpaces the rate of replenishment.
Read your history and you'll see a progression from using crop oils, to whale blubber oils, to mineral deposit oils (the kind we use now), each more efficient in man hours to extract and distribute then the last, and with each there was an exponential growth in the human work output and human population.
The Earth doesn't need oil, humans need oil. We've built up a very large and complex economic infrastructure responsible for feeding, clothing, and housing billions more people then can be sustained with less efficient energy sources then oil.
The idea that we can maintain our current way of life by using ethanol from corn, or oil from hemp is a farce. There is simply not enough arable land available to produce enough oils, nor is there enough labor available to make it happen.
Read your history and you'll see a progression from using crop oils, to whale blubber oils, to mineral deposit oils (the kind we use now), each more efficient in man hours to extract and distribute then the last, and with each there was an exponential growth in the human work output and human population.
The Earth doesn't need oil, humans need oil. We've built up a very large and complex economic infrastructure responsible for feeding, clothing, and housing billions more people then can be sustained with less efficient energy sources then oil.
The idea that we can maintain our current way of life by using ethanol from corn, or oil from hemp is a farce. There is simply not enough arable land available to produce enough oils, nor is there enough labor available to make it happen.