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Originally Posted by EscortBiz
...kinda like we dont understand why booze was illegal
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That is an easy one and has tons of information to the subject if you pay attention to history.
1. 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.
2. That allowed the driver to switch the carburetor to run the engine on farm-made ethyl alcohol. This allowed the operator to stop at local farms (equipped with stills) to refuel his/her car during long trips through the back country. NOT HAVING TO PAY FOR IT AT GASSING STATIONS.
4. John D. Rockefeller, the industrialist-founder of the Standard Oil Company, had a virtual monopoly on gasoline at this time in our nation's development. The Standard Oil Company was pushing gasoline as an alternative fuel to alcohol.
3. John D. Rockefeller, under the ruse of Christian temperance, gave 4 million dollars to a group of old ladies and told them to fight for Prohibition. Why?
4. By getting Congress to pass Prohibition laws, Rockefeller eliminated his competition.
Viola... You have prohibition.
End of history lesson...
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