Please contact me. It’s about Cork, Ireland and a check for $1 million.

Barnaby The Younger

Dear Mr. Hinckle

I respectfully disagree with you colleagues alcohol for vehicles comment made on Forum Friday. Here is the story as I heard it. At the turn of the last century the first fuel in wide use was alcohol. It was later that a waste product of the refining process (which was dumped in rivers) was found to be able to burn in internal combustion engines. Gasoline. Rockerfeller and Standard Oil undercut the alcohol processors and had most of the city business for auto fuel. However if you needed to visit your grandma in the country you need not worry because the Model T had a switch which went from alcohol to gasoline. You used either & if visiting the country you needed to switch to alcohol for the ride back. Rockerfeller was not happy with just the city fuel business. He wanted the farmers business. They wouldn’t buy because they made alcohol from farm waste & there was still a network of stations in the country where Rockefeller couldn’t compete. At least fairly. So Rockerfeller donated a ton of money to the temperance movement & got the farmers business because all alcohol was illegal. There were riots but they were quickly squashed. The car manufacturers didn’t care. As a matter of fact they liked gasoline. It turns out that gasoline will wear an engine out. Alcohol will allow years of trouble free use because it is a clean fuel that doesn’t dirty the oil in the engine causing wear…
There are also a couple of back stories like the moonshiners using alcohol and high performance engines to get away from the police which was the roots of NASCAR. Turns out that alcohol is best for high compression engines. A part of this is in the thirties high compression engines needed and anti knock agent. Alcohol was the right choice but couldn’t be patented. Their choice was ethyl lead. A horrible choice but patentable. 35 workers lost their lives the first year of production form lead poisoning. When Prohibition was lifted farmers went to Germany to investigate the potato alcohol program they had there. When they came back to report to the Grange they were clubbed by Rockefeller thugs & arrested by the police for Unamerican activities. Alcohol production for vehicles did not resume after Prohibition. There is also the destruction of electric railways across the country. The prohibition of hemp by Hearst due to his large land holdings with timber. The list goes on. Greed brought on Prohibition. Not just drunks beating up their wives. Lawrence Rhodes Solar/electric vehicle advocate.

But where is the red envelopes?