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After VW was outed for falsifying environmental data in its cars hundreds of thousand of VW vehicles were taken off the road now sitting in storage sites. Hundreds of thousands of cars now lie in lots in the Mojave Desert, a shuttered suburban Detroit football stadium, and a former Minnesota paper mill in America alone. These vehicles are now in the open slowly breaking down with pollutants entering the environment. Is the the modern cost of corporate greed? What can we do to ensure this never happens again?
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Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards
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(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @11:37PM
Not that synthetics might not have gotten a benefit, but the taxation on hemp started much earlier and was due to the southern cotton/textile industry not wanting hemp, which could be grown with less labor, poorer soil, and in harsher northern climates to take away from its financial position. Hemp was actually illegal before WW1 due to tax stamps and only exempted due to the demand for ropes and uniforms during WW1/2 before having tax stamps denied after the war causing all the farmers who had produced hemp to stop since they couldn't renew the necessary tax stamps to continue farming hemp.
Source: Conservative Independent Businessman family member.