If hemp was the answer to dependence on Big Oil, you would think that all the rest of the world where it is legal to grow hemp would be independent of Big Oil. Think logically for one second. Hemp can be legally produced in most of the world yet none of the great things that hemp has been touted to do or get turned into have ever materialized in the market. You think the chinks would miss an opportunity to make more money by producing hemp wonder products to be sold to the West where growing hemp is banned? Yeah, it's not happening because hemp isn't the wonder plant some people make it out to be.