Every gallon we pump is a standing ovation for the same cartel that’s been cashing in on our slow-motion house fire for over a century. They sell us the myth of “cheap energy” while billing our kids for the cleanup. Congress keeps writing them love letters in the form of tax breaks, and we keep footing the tab—lungs first, wallets second.

It’s not just smoke and melting ice—it’s policy. From the Trump-era freeze on fuel-economy standards to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act gutting clean-energy credits, the game is rigged so Big Oil never has to grow up. And while they light the match, they whisper about “innovation” and “energy security.” Don’t be fooled. This isn’t security; it’s a stick-up.

Ending fossil foolery isn’t a moral suggestion—it’s an economic survival strategy. The exit ramp is already paved: bio-based materials, renewable grids, and a regenerative economy ready to scale. We don’t need another decade of polite debate; we need a clean break. Starve the beast. Fund the future.

The U.S. didn’t just spend $8 trillion protecting oil lanes. The Pentagon also funded the petrochemical empire’s R&D, creating nylon, Kevlar, and carbon fiber — while hemp and bamboo stayed outlawed.

AFG: Processor Atlas — Where capacity actually lives
We mapped North American hemp/bamboo processors by capability and throughput—decorticators, dryers, carders, nonwovens, compounders, panel presses. Size = tons per day, color = process. The picture isn’t “no supply chain”; it’s uneven, under-upgraded capacity clustered around cheap power, rail, and ports. The chokepoints are predictable: drying, QA, and offtake. Fix those, and lines move from press release to production.

This Atlas is a placement tool: operators find neighbors and buyers; capital finds upgrades with short payback and clean compliance (FEOC/DC, Energy Communities, 45X/48C, §6417/§6418). If you’ve got a line we missed—or one ready to scale—send the intake. We’re funding boring things that print throughput.

In 1962, USDA pulled funding from bamboo research. Bamboo wasn’t banned — it was starved. Timber, cotton, and petro kept their monopoly.

Hemp wasn’t fringe — it was freedom. The sails, ropes, and paper that won American independence came from hemp. Colonists even traded hemp bales for muskets and powder. Without hemp, there’s no navy, no supply chain, no Revolution.

In 1971, hemp was swept into the Controlled Substances Act. A natural crop was treated like a poison; locking it out of research and industry while petrochemicals exploded worldwide.

Bamboo and hemp are the twin antidotes to the petrochemical era.

Quarantined in 1918, defunded in 1962, and criminalized in 1971, these two climate-positive crops were sidelined just as oil, plastics and slow-growth timber took the throne. Today both can be grown right here in the U.S., locking away carbon, cleaning soil, and feeding the next generation of bioplastics, bio-silicates, batteries and solar technology.
Bamboo can replace coal. Hemp can replace oil. Together they can replace timber—and help heal the planet.

Only in America do we spend millions on seeds and science, then pass laws to burn the harvest. In 2018, Congress legalized hemp, and farmers invested in barns, seed, and labs. USDA funded research, universities ran trials, and taxpayers bankrolled it all. Now lawmakers move to redefine hemp out of existence, while USDA undervalues floral hemp by more than 20x. This isn’t oversight. It’s sabotage and the blueprint is hiding in plain sight.

Evolution Mine is regeneration — powered by hemp, bamboo, and women.
We are not a brand. We are not a think tank. We are an economic movement engineered to bankrupt the petrochemical empire and replace it with something that actually lasts.