Monkeyshinerbot3000

Laws are never really enacted on moral grounds. Therefore the probability of it being a capitalistic endeavor would be most likely. Cash is a hell of a motivator. Look up Sunoco.

Gringojones

I have an e85 car. The ethanol content in the gas here is 10%. Would it be worth distilling my own ethanol to add?

RageAgainstTheAmish

Not unless you rebuild your entire engine to be compatible with high ethanol fuel.

Or swap into a rotary engine with ethanol and water injection

Gringojones

E85 means it can handle 85% ethanol.

I would consider that a high ethanol fuel.

RageAgainstTheAmish

My bad didnt read that right

Diggernicks

The real reason was women got the vote.

We need to repeal the 19th amendment.

TrialsAndTribulation

No, because prohibition was a long time goal of many religious nuts who apparently didn't believe Jesus drank wine. (Even though I'm a Christian, I think they were wack jobs.) It had absolutely nothing to do with Rockefeller.

Conspirologist

The problem is that the elite are crazy, so everything is possible. You can't use logic to understand the cause - effect chain of reaction.

HarlandKornfeld14

What do you mean "ethanol compatible"? All cars can take a small ethanol mixture, like up to E24.

VOALTRON

Mostly correct. Newer engines can handle ethanol mixtures better than older (pre 2000's) engines can.

However, engine fuel systems can be built to tolerate much higher ethanol mixtures, or even pure ethanol.

Engines can also be built, and some are built, to run on natural gas too.

Alternative internal combustion engine fuels work just fine, as long as the engine is properly designed, and built to work with them.

Needless to say, the oil cartels would prefer it if the public, and engine manufacturers don't become more supportive of alternative fuels.

HarlandKornfeld14

I get your point. But they didn't have flex-fuel technology in the 1920s, it was only possible in the 1980s.