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🚨 You think Prohibition was just about banning booze and saving souls? Think again. It was allegedly the ultimate power play by Big Oil to crush a rival fuel forever.
Henry Ford built the Model T to run on ethanol (farm-made alcohol from crops-- renewable, domestic, bad for oil profits). John D. Rockefeller, the oil baron behind Standard Oil, reportedly poured millions into the temperance movement to push through the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
Why? Prohibition didn't just outlaw drinking-- it banned industrial alcohol production too. Ethanol as car fuel? Dead on arrival. Gasoline? Untouched and ready to dominate. Rockefeller wins: petroleum floods the world, reshaping everything--cars, farming (petro-chemical fertilizers), and even modern medicine (petroleum-based pharma empire via Rockefeller-funded medical reforms like the Flexner Report).
One more bombshell connection people whisper about: Bill Gates' father (William H. Gates Sr., a prominent Seattle attorney and philanthropist) had ties to Rockefeller circles through philanthropy networks. (Gates Sr. helped shape global health efforts echoing Rockefeller's model-- some even call the Gates Foundation the modern Rockefeller Foundation 2.0.) Coincidence? Or the same playbook across generations?
What if the fuel we drive on, the medicine we take, and the food we eat were all engineered by the same dynasty to lock in control?
Mind blown yet? Did this just red-pill you? I'm interested🔥
#ProhibitionWasRigged #BigOil #Rockefeller #EthanolCoverup #GatesRockefeller
It didn’t ban Industrial Alcohol production though. What it resulted in was the inclusion of toxic additives into the production of Industrial Alcohol in order to render it unfit for human consumption. Not that it stopped people but I digress.
There was a whole political drama about the inclusion of Toxic additives and the people who kept dying from Moonshine and other processes that used these tainted industrial alcohol in the production of bootleg booze.
Worse they purposely poisoned alcohol and sent it into the illicit channels for human consumption.
There is a modern day benefit to the wait for home brew fuel. Modern engines are hardened for the use of alcohol fuel blends.
No? This is just blatantly false. Industrial alcohol continued to be produced during prohibition. Most pharmaceuticals, chemicals, etc. used and STILL use some form of industrial alcohol in their formulation. IN FACT before the birth of the modern pharmaceutical industry, like 90% of "pharmaceuticals" came in the form of some kind of alcoholic tonic that was basically ethanol mixed with various herbs and spices with medicinal properties.
The main push for temperance was women, like OVERWHELMINGLY women. Besides, even if we produced ZERO food from our wheat and corn supplies and converted ALL OF IT into ethanol it would NEVER meet our energy needs. Much less even back then. Much less the energy needs of the entire world.
The main reason we went to oil based fuels is because its THE MOST energy dense fuel on the planet. Only nuclear stuff is more energy dense and that's not exactly practical for cars, trucks, trains, etc.
MOST vehicles before prohibition were dual fuel (meaning they could run off gasoline OR ethanol) because at the time many places were remote with no access to gasoline yet but you COULD make your own moonshine and throw it in the tank if you wanted to, which made cars and trucks more feasible and allowed for greater adoption. By the time prohibition was over, the gasoline infrastructure had spread enough that it no longer made sense to engineer dual fuel vehicles for the mass market so they simply stopped until demand started spiking again in the 80s and 90s and we got "mixed fuel" vehicles that are designed to run on a set ratio mix of gasoline to ethanol.
Great stuff. Also, in the interest of accuracy, is was the Carnegie, not Rockefeller Foundation that commissioned the Flexner report.
Sometimes I come across an idea that I had never contemplated, nor knew existed. This is one of those. Now, with our central plains being the bread basket of the world, just think what it could do if planted with crops that can be converted to ethanol. We would no longer need big oil. We would be free of confiscatory rates being charged for a barrel job crude oil. Our gasoline would become cheap overnight, so to speak.
Thanks Penisse, this certainly opens up a huge door to begin domestic ethanol production. Do you think President Trump would go for it?
If so, I'm guessing that Trump would help develop super efficient engines and or release the buried patents on these. Doesn't really fit in with the Venezuela thing.
The reason ethanol gets a bad rap is because engines are designed to run on petroleum gasoline. So the ethanol is kind of half assed. I haven't seen the videos posted but apparently back in the day you could run an engine properly on ethanol. I could be wrong but it's definitely a fact that this was the push for the temperance movement.
Leaves , twigs , stalks and grass can be converted to fuel. Not the best for drinking but fine for fueling.
No need for food crops or their potential acreage to be wasted.
100%.
I'm no mechanic but no reason we couldn't be driving ethanol cars today.
Rule of thumb: government policies are never about you having a better life or taking care if you but instead control or spending more money.
It's a waste of good farmland IMAO. lots of people hungry all over the world and we turn food into fuel.
I was married to a farmer for 30 years. He always swore it took more fuel to grow the corn to make the ethanol, than the crop produced. There are other crops that are far more efficient for ethanol than corn.
Sativa Cannabis for instance, very fast growing.
There is a type of grass (wheat grass, maybe) that you can get 5 crops a year, whereas corn is only one and very costly to grow for ethanol
It means you could make it at home. It's not about paying a corporation but taking sugar water and turning it into ethanol. You should raise your own food if you can, produce your own fuel too. Goodbye petrodollar, hello autonomy. Don't willingly give your power away.
You could if you had gobs of land and equipment and no job..lll
The point is the temperance thing was to monopolize oil. How you can support this and not let the market decide is not conservatism.
If that's your argument turn all public spaces into food producing fields. No more parks, stadiums, parking lots, national parks, etc. Might not be a bad idea but the argument is flawed.
Look at all the good people that die in oil wars and how many people are poor because of the monopoly on fuel.
Also, as a conservative you should always support freedom of choice. A monopoly that was brought on by government mandates should be an obvious NO.
Look at all the ethanol subsidies.
It cant stand on its own.
It's retarded.
I hate subsidies. I also hate forced monopolies.
Trump still supports subsidies and that's why we have big Ag.
Rome wasn't destroyed in one day.....
Interesting.
The Flexner report was backed by the Carnegie Foundation, not Rockefeller. Rockefeller however, did pour money into medical schools in order to overturn their curriculum.
Kek at "crush a rival fuel forever".
Here in the US our gas contains a percentage of ethanol.
Mind not blown. Older carburated engines however are blown.
Ethenol... it didnt work.
It does, but you have to mod the cylinder head to avoid burning the valves and valve guides and enable a higher comrression ratio
I think it also consolidated supply chains forcing ‘little guys’ out of business only to be replaced by well funded entities (bootleggers aside).