* Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of the diesel engine, designed it to
run on vegetable and seed oils like hemp. In fact, when the diesel
engine was first introduced at the World's Fair in 1900, it ran on
peanut oil.
* Two decades later, Henry Ford was designing his Model Ts to run on
ethanol made from hemp. He envisioned the entire mass-produced
Model T automobile line would run on ethanol derived from crops
grown in the U.S.
* Even in the 1920s, the oil industry had massive lobbying power in
Washington. Lobbyists convinced policymakers to create laws
favoring petroleum based fuels while disgarding the ethanol option.
* Nearly a century later, amidst oil wars in the Middle East, Global
Warming, and a nearly depleted oil supply, the U.S. government is
finally shifting attention to fuels that are more along the lines
of Diesel and Ford's original ideas.
* In an interview with the New York Times in 1925, Henry Ford said:
"The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that
sumac out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust -- almost
anything. There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can
be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an
acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the
fields for a hundred years."
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