Meat Wad
Super Anarchist
So I get the spam email about Rockfeller and how he killed an alternative fuel. Of course there was a link (no I did not click it).
I did a search (duck duck go) and found some stuff I did not know. I'm not sure why this was not discussed in the History series "The Titans that built America"
I wonder what the carbon output is of a vehicle on alcohol is?
here are a few excerpts.
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Rockefeller, Ford and the Secret History of Alcohol
There's a secret history regarding alcohol that you won't hear on the six o'clock news:
"Autoists Discuss Alcohol As Fuel; Great Future Ahead For Use In Commercial Wagons, Says Prof. Lucke. Tests With Motor Truck E.R. Hewitt Tells Engineers Of His Results With Gasoline And Alcohol In Same Engine"
So if alcohol can provide a cheaper and better fuel than alcohol, why doesn't anyone talk about it today?
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I remember in the late 70's NHRA using Alcohol and of course ethanol blends for cars. But I was never aware that it was a big deal at the turn of the century.
Imagine how many local/regional distilleries would pop up to fill you tank at.
I did a search (duck duck go) and found some stuff I did not know. I'm not sure why this was not discussed in the History series "The Titans that built America"
I wonder what the carbon output is of a vehicle on alcohol is?
here are a few excerpts.
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Rockefeller, Ford and the Secret History of Alcohol
There's a secret history regarding alcohol that you won't hear on the six o'clock news:
- Cars and everything else running on internal combustion engines can run on alcohol at least as well as they can run on gasoline. Indeed, engines were built back in 1870 that could run using either alcohol or gasoline
- A New York Times article from 1908 enthusiastically states:
"Autoists Discuss Alcohol As Fuel; Great Future Ahead For Use In Commercial Wagons, Says Prof. Lucke. Tests With Motor Truck E.R. Hewitt Tells Engineers Of His Results With Gasoline And Alcohol In Same Engine"
- Henry Ford said that alcohol was "a cleaner, nicer, better fuel for automobiles than gasoline" (James Brough, The Ford Dynasty: An American Story, p. 118, and cited in "Ford - The Men and the Machine", p. 365). The Model T Ford had a knob right on the dashboard to adjust the fuel-air mixture for either alcohol or gas
- Alcohol does not corrode or shorten the lifespan of modern cars, and an inexpensive adjustment to regular cars will make them run smoothly and inexpensively on alcohol
So if alcohol can provide a cheaper and better fuel than alcohol, why doesn't anyone talk about it today?
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I remember in the late 70's NHRA using Alcohol and of course ethanol blends for cars. But I was never aware that it was a big deal at the turn of the century.
Imagine how many local/regional distilleries would pop up to fill you tank at.