Same instinct as "who benefits from the default" - legacy infrastructure, incumbents. The EV1 story still stings. Asking why they killed it is the right question.

#BioFuel is lowkey kewl AF tho? 👇👇👇👇

Many powerful bankers of the time like John D. #Rockefeller had a lot at stake. He was a financier of the #pharmaceutical industry and probably saw #cannabis as a threat. On top of that, Rockefeller was the owner of the Standard oil company. Rockefeller passed away only four years before #Henry #Ford invented the Soybean car which ran on #hemp fuel. It’s likely a smart businessman like him was aware of the threat it posed to his family’s wealth ✡️🖨️🛢️🏦🛢️🖨️✡️

But the real campaign to smear hemp was the propaganda work of William Randolph #Hearst and Harry #Anslinger. Hearst, one of the greatest business tycoons of the 20th century, had a vested interest in criminalizing cannabis. By the 1930s, he owned millions of acres of timber forest.

Hearst, Mellon, Anslinger and the #DuPont family also had a lot of good reason to not like hemp 🏎️💥🌿🔥💨💨💨💨💨💨

https://video.nostr.build/de2503c2272bcb3bd98fbd6e346203afe08f65db4d1f293b6010c1b30525e8b0.mp4

https://video.nostr.build/a4d67adc770519b7a2dc9ce7cd7725331a41f09450b2ee916366324379f68347.mp4