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11-08-2021, 09:44 PM	#11 (permalink)
freebeard Master EcoModder Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: northwest of normal Posts: 28,549 Thanks: 8,091 Thanked 8,880 Times in 7,328 Posts	Hippy tires would be made from Hemp Oil. With Hemp fiber belts. __________________ . .Without freedom of speech we wouldn't know who all the idiots are. -- anonymous poster ____________________ . .Three conspiracy theorists walk into a bar --You can't say that is a coincidence.

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11-08-2021, 10:10 PM

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Hippy tires would be made from Hemp Oil.

With Hemp fiber belts.

You mean Goodyear could eventually replace the Polyglas tire by something like Polyhemp?

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11-08-2021, 11:12 PM	#13 (permalink)
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11-09-2021, 04:52 PM	#14 (permalink)
MeteorGray Master EcoModder Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Louisiana Posts: 361 Thanks: 275 Thanked 132 Times in 102 Posts	I've read several times of vehicles' wiring being ruined by mice and rats because wire sheathing is now made out of soybeans or some such edible. I can't wait for soy-tires. __________________

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11-09-2021, 05:55 PM	#15 (permalink)
redpoint5 Human Environmentalist Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Oregon Posts: 12,754 Acura TSX - '06 Acura TSX 90 day: 24.19 mpg (US) Lafawnda - CBR600 - '01 Honda CBR600 F4i 90 day: 47.32 mpg (US) Big Yeller - Dodge/Cummins - '98 Dodge Ram 2500 base 90 day: 21.82 mpg (US) Chevy ZR-2 - '03 Chevrolet S10 ZR2 90 day: 17.14 mpg (US) Model Y - '24 Tesla Y LR AWD Pacifica Hybrid - '21 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid 90 day: 57.45 mpg (US) Thanks: 4,316 Thanked 4,472 Times in 3,437 Posts	LOL, now I've got an idea to develop tires made from rhino tusks; a renewable resource. __________________ Gas and Electric Vehicle Cost of Ownership Calculator Give me absolute safety, or give me death!

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I've read several times of vehicles' wiring being ruined by mice and rats because wire sheathing is now made out of soybeans or some such edible.

Even before their sheating was made out of the "green" stuff, mice and rats already ruined it.

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