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I heard that hemp can be used to make ethanol. If so we need to make ethanol from hemp instead of corn. When corn became the choice to make ethanol, the price of all foods made from corn went up because the farmers could make more money from selling their crop to the ethanol producers. Lets keep the corn to make food products and hemp could be used to make ethanol fuel.

In Georgia they want to make ethanol from the fast growing southern pine. They say that the yield for the pine into ethanol is larger than corn into ethanol, but the pine tree takes years to produce. I think hemp grows to it's full height in one season. Wouldn't it be better to make ethanol from hemp because it grows so quickly?

They also want to make ethanol from sugar beets, but this would make any foods made with the sugar beet more expensive. Hemp would also be better here.

If we burn hemp produced ethanol in our cars, will the exhaust smell like burning pot ? Kinda like the cheech & chong (Up in Smoke) movie, where the Van they were driving from Mexico to San Diego was made from pot.