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Hemp fueled the cars Henry Ford "grew", as reported in Popular Mechanics Dec. 1941(1 ).

A 2005 Cornell University study said, it was not economical to produce ethanol or biodiesel from currently legal available crops. But it was economical to use hemp to produce biomass fuels. Lynn Osburn author of Energy Farming in America said, "When farmers can make a profit growing energy, it will not take long to get six percent of continental American land mass into cultivation of biomass fuel -- enough to replace our economy's dependence on fossil fuels," she also said "The threat of global greenhouse warming and adverse climactic change will diminish. To keep costs down, pyrolysis reactors need to be located close to the energy farms. This necessity will bring life back to our small towns by providing jobs locally." (2 ).

Researched released from the University of Connecticut in 2010 showed hemp a superior plant for making fuel. Hemp has a 97 percent conversion rate when it is converted to biodiesel. Its believe that hemp biodiesel could be used at lower temperatures that other forms of biodiesel. Lead researcher on this project, Prof Richard Parnas said "If someone is already growing hemp," and also "they might be able to produce enough fuel to power their whole farm with the oil from the seeds they produce." (3 ).

Co inventor of a hemp powered car ("HEMPCAR" ) Greyson Sigler noted that biodiesel releases 80 percent less emissions and "There are no sulfur byproducts, although there are slightly increased nitrogen oxide emission, most of which can be tuned out," ( 4 ).