In Part 1, I mentioned society's shift from using hempseed oil to synthetic chemicals in paints and varnishes. I would like to now draw your attention to behind the historical "curtain". In the late 1800s, "Agriculture" was begining to lose marketshare to the up-and-coming "Industy". Several billion dollars were at stake. In 1896, Rudolph Diesel's new engine had been designed with the presumption that vegetable and seed oils (like hempseed oil) would be used as fuel.
Have you ever heard of Chevron? Chevron was the result of the merger of Standard Oil and Gulf Oil companies in 1985. Gulf Oil had been throughout most of the twentieth century one of the major manufacturers of
fuels and lubricants. Fuels and lubricants that were made from petroleum instead of natural oils such as hempseed oil. It was in 1913 that Gulf Oil opened its first drive-in gas station - the same year Ford Motor Company began using the assembly line for automobile manufacturing. At this time I shall mention briefly that the Alcohol Prohibition of 1919 falls right in line with the fledgling automotive industry's decision of which fuel to use - ethanol ( alcohol produced from grains) versus petroleum-derived gasoline.
The special interests do not stop there - we are just getting started! One of DuPont's larger financial backers, a man by the name of Andrew Mellon became the Treasury Secretary of this nation. Mellon had taken over Gulf Oil. In 1914, DuPont had purchased $25 million in stock of a little known company called General Motors. Pierre DuPont, the founder of DuPont, became president of GM in 1920. The ties between DuPont and the Oil and Automotive industries had been made. They were going to rise or fall as a group - they needed each other.
As this story unfolds, I hope you are beginning to see the corruption that is starting to brew and how it all links in the prohibition of cannabis. Stay tuned for Part 3!
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