Pubdate: Wed, 30 May 2007 Source: Goldstream Gazette (Victoria, CN BC) Copyright: 2007 Goldstream News Gazette Contact: http://www.goldstreamgazette.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1291 Author: Michael Pearce WHY NOT HEMP FUEL? Ethanol is a waste of time, money and resources! Hemp fuel is less expensive to produce. The only effective use for ethanol is in large, turbine-driven power-plants; the only way that ethanol production and use can be cost-effective. Hemp is the answer to carbon-neutral fuel sources. Cost-effective, needing no pesticides, little water or field upkeep. It is about time that B.C. jump on the hemp revolution that is underway in Canada now. Look at the successes that other provinces have already had. Any province that is not looking at hemp as a resource is foolish and shortsighted. Look at the successes in Manitoba alone, with one company. Manitoba Harvest has experienced 1,000 per cent growth is sales in the last few years. Where else do we see economic success in Canada today? MICHAEL PEARCE St-Mathieu de Beloeil, Quebec - --- MAP posted-by: Steve Heath