Devils Lake
An article “My day without oil,” written by Dennis Johnson, concentrated on plastics made from crude oil. In 1940, Henry Ford manufactured a car whose body was completely made of plastic. The plastic was made from corn oil. Velva North Dakota has a huge oil crushing facility that produces excellent plant based oil that can also be made into high quality plastic. The North Dakota Legacy Fund could make a wise investment for the future in building a facility to make plastic out of that plant based oil.
The facility in Velva also crushes sunflower oil. In 1980, I was a sales agronomist for a hybrid sunflower company out of Davis, California. We sponsored a car dealer from Placerville, Ca to enter a race across America using alternate fuels. He had converted a Jeep Waggoner with a diesel engine to burn sunflower oil. He drove the Jeep burning sunflower oil from California to New York City. At the time I did a radio show “Focus on Flowers” and did a 20 minute interv