Source: MODERN FARMER, 10/2/17



Back the early 2000s, when I was a young, dreadlocked environmentalist in the hippie-surfer mecca of Santa Cruz, California, a friend shared a mind-blowing fact: cars can run on vegetable oil and alcohol. “Dude!” my buddy exclaimed before explaining that Henry Ford designed the Model T to run on hemp biofuel, and Rudolf Diesel, who invented the diesel engine, intended for it to run on peanut oil. Not only that, but biofuels don’t pollute like petroleum, I learned.

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