Why use leather when there's hemp?
There's an easy way around the leather/reusable material stuff: Hemp.
Once you go online and start reading about the goodness of hemp, it pretty much sounds like it will cure all of our ills.
You can run cars on it, goto: hempcars.com to read more.
You can make seat fabric, goto: hemptraders.com to read more.
You can make plastics, goto: hempplastics.com.
A hempmobile is right around the corner if we want something renewable and fun to say, "hempmobile." But ever since marijuana was banned in 1937, we don't see as much hemp in products not featured on Cops episodes. Even those people peddling Hemp shirts at county fairs and college campuses leave me with the wrong kind of lasting impression.
And while hemp may never go mainstream, companies are already exploring bio-fabrics. Honda Motor Co. uses the bio-fabric on its FCX Clarity and, no doubt, many more companies will start using the word "bio" on their fabrics in the future. The fabrics are plant derived and stay away from oil-based cloth seats. Bio- anything has got great marketing potential, suggesting a company is green, and, down the road, it will become cheaper.
Until then, maybe some of those green groups should get behind legalizing hemp.
Of course, I still like leather better, it smells a million times better than the last guy who tried to push a hemp hat on me.
