Peanut allergies are a rather new phenomenom but there are other alternatives.................
Diesel expected that his engine would be powered by vegetable oils (including hemp) and seed oils. At the 1900 World's Fair, Diesel ran his engines on peanut oil. Later, George Schlichten invented a hemp 'decorticating' machine that stood poised to revolutionize paper making. Henry Ford demonstrated that cars can be made of, and run on, hemp. Evidence suggests a special-interest group that included the DuPont petrochemical company, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon (Dupont's major financial backer), and the newspaper man William Randolph Hearst mounted a yellow journalism campaign against hemp. Hearst deliberately confused psychoactive marijuana with industrial hemp, one of humankind's oldest and most useful resources. DuPont and Hearst were heavily invested in timber and petroleum resources, and saw hemp as a threat to their empires. Petroleum companies also knew that petroleum emits noxious, toxic byproducts when incompletely burned, as in an auto engine. Pollution was important to Diesel and he saw his engine as a solution to the inefficient, highly polluting engines of his time. In 1937 DuPont, Mellen and Hearst were able to push a "marijuana" prohibition bill through Congress in less than three months, which destroyed the domestic hemp industry.
A Mystery:
Diesel died under mysterious circumstances in 1913, vanishing during an overnight crossing of the English Channel on the mail steamer Dresden from Antwerp to Harwich. Diesel's death might have been suicide, accidental or an assassination. Proponents of the assassination theory point out that shortly after Diesel's death, a diesel-powered German submarine fleet became the scourge of the seas. Diesel had been friendly to France, Britain and the United States. 1
now the conspiracy theory of why we drive gasoline buring engines instead of diesel has been solved. the politicians were bought and paid for, but we the people enjoyed the gasoline engines and laughed at the environmenatlist who said gas emissions would harm the Earth and melt the polar ice caps. Now , whose listening? The republiclans are suddenly going green and their shifting to corner the market on free earth friendly energy on the backs of those they had pissed on all these years, us, the not for hire nobel prize winning democrats. Here is one fact republicans can agree on, GM corporation scammed America out of all the city rail services . Shorthly after world war two ,GM bought up all the city transit rail services and closed them down and sold the government piece of shit buses to replace the cheaper rail. WTF happened in that deal. History and time has covered up the truth , but just as we hunt the Nazis in todays society we will hunt down the lobbiest who committed treason by passing that deal. Those are the true enemies of the state. May the facts come back to haunt the lobbiest for all time.
The only thing that gets the republicans attention is three things : cancelling their older parents medicare benefits, cuts to their parents social security benefits, and the high gas prices. go figure, thier leaders are doing just that right now. who are they going to blame ? bill clinton? heck ya.
I pose these three question : If Obama is lieing to the united states people when he promises change, do you realize he is not the president at this time ?
If you agree he is not the president at this time, who do you think is running the country at this time?
Why are you charging Obama with lieing to the American people, if he isn't even the president yet?
answers: scared shitless to be on the wrong side when the shit hits the fan!
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