46 - Hemp as Fuel - Why Aren’t We Using It? With Kyla de Clifford.

The Canna Curious Podcast: Conversations on Cannabis, Wellness & Women’s Health · Mar 25, 2026 · 21m

This week, we explore a question that seems simple… but isn’t:

If hemp can be used as fuel then why aren’t we using it? Particularly during this very planned war and outage of oil with far reaching implications.

In this episode, I break down:

The history of hemp as an industrial crop

Henry Ford’s plant-based car and early biofuel exploration

What hemp fuel actually is (biodiesel + ethanol)

Whether it really works — and where it falls short

Why it didn’t scale (policy, infrastructure, economics)

Where hemp fits in today’s energy conversation

And the bigger question: how systems decide what…