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Prohibition History I Never Knew CC
I'm watching the Jay Leno show tonight (2/16/09) and there's a fellow on that has a made a documentary film.
The reason I'm posting is that he told a story that I never knew about Alcohol Prohibition.
Henry Ford originally made his cars to run on ethanol, so farmers could create their own fuel. (He saw farmers really as his customers originally, since nearly all of us were farmers).
Along comes John D. Rockefeller, who wants people to use oil. He provides money to the anti-alcohol movement in order to make Prohibition a reality, and stop the ethanol fuel industry and promote the use of fossil fuels
The documentary is called: Fuel
Trailer is here
Directed by: Josh Tickell.
"I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children."
-- William Randolph Hearst,
initially a supporter of Prohibition,
explaining his change of mind in 1929.
From "Drink: A Social History of America"
by Andrew Barr (1999), p. 239
JOSH TICKELL FILMMAKER, AUTHOR & ENVIRONMENTALIST
Review: L.A. Premiere of Josh Tickell's "Fuel"
by Frank Filipponio autobloggreen Oct 13th 2008
Josh Tickell with producer and fiancee Rebecca Harrell
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Los Angeles Times Review Friday, February 13
"Fuel is a vital, superbly assembled documentary…doesn't dwell on muckraking, however; it's more focused on broadly inspiring viewers than preaching to the converted….Smartly animated interstitials, memorable archival material and a lively soundtrack round out the fast-paced proceedings.”
thefuelfilm.com
Fields of Fuel: Josh Tickell’s New Biodiesel Documentary
Will Bolivia Be Ruined or Improved Because of Electric Cars?
THE HUMANIST INTERVIEW with Josh Tickell
Mr. Biodiesel Meets Gas 2.0
If a picture is worth a thousand words,
a good documentary can change your vocabulary.
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... Corporations have bee enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
-- Abraham Lincoln, November 12, 1864
The End Of Oil: On The Edge Of A Perilous New World
"This book may well become for fossil fuels what Fast Food Nation was for food." Publishers Weekly
Hitler's carmaker
During the late 1930s, Hitler's persecution of Jews was building to a frenzy even as fears of a war escalated. Nevertheless, General Motors' German automotive subsidiary, Opel, remained a loyal corporate citizen of the Third Reich - content to obediently do the Nazi regime's bidding, and unstintingly supporting Hitler's program on many fronts. These included economic and employment recovery, anti-Jewish persecution, war preparedness and domestic propaganda. In return, Opel prospered.
Did Auto, Oil Conspiracy Put the Brakes on Trolleys?
Who Killed the Electric Trolley?
At the center of the conspiracy was National City Lines, an Enronesque company that suddenly arose in 1937, ostensibly run by five barely educated Minnesota bus drivers, the Fitzgerald brothers. Yet the Fitzgeralds miraculously marshaled millions of dollars to buy up one failing trolley system after another. Soon, through a patchwork of subsidiaries, the brothers owned or controlled transit systems in more than 40 cities.
Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments
Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives.
ENERGY CRISIS: Ford And Diesel Never Intended Cars To Use Gasoline
Henry Ford's first Model-T was built to run on hemp gasoline and the CAR ITSELF WAS CONSTRUCTED FROM HEMP! On his large estate, Ford was photographed among his hemp fields. The car, 'grown from the soil,' had hemp plastic panels whose impact strength was 10 times stronger than steel; Popular Mechanics, 1941.
Did the early cars run on peanut oil?
You're absolutely right -- the first engines that were developed did run on vegetable oils. In fact, when Rudolf Diesel designed his prototype diesel engine a century ago, his fuel of choice was peanut oil. However, when petroleum diesel fuel arrived in the market, it was cheap, reasonably efficient and readily available, and, therefore, quickly replaced vegetable oils as fuel.
For more, see
Henry Ford and George Washington Carver were good friends and I do recall watching something on I believe the History Channel about them trying to work on a car ran off of peanut oil however I do not recall if they were successful.
BIO-FUELS / WAISTE FUELS
The 1st self propelled vehicle was steamed powered by Nicolas Cugnot
Some of the early cars back were actually electric cars.
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Why do you think they call it Fascism?
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SHADOW OF THE SWASTIKA
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An advertisement for the DMC-12
John DeLorean on the cover of the
April 16, 1984 issue of People Weekly
THE OIL WAR OF 1872
Most of the independent oil producers in the Oil Region of west-central Pennsylvania were young, and they looked forward to the years ahead. They believed they would solve problems such as railroad discrimination. They would make their towns the most beautiful in the world. There was nothing they did not hope and dare.
But suddenly, at the very heyday of this confidence, a big hand reached out from nobody knew where, to steal their conquest and throttle their future. The suddenness and the wickedness of the assault on their business stirred to the bottom their manhood and their sense of fair play, and the whole region arose in a revolt which is scarcely paralleled in the commercial history of the United States.
Economics: Energy, Environment and Commerce
In the early 1900s, Henry Ford and other futuristic, organic, engineering geniuses recognized (as their intellectual, scientific heirs still do today) an important point - that up to 90 percent of all fossil fuel used inthe world today (coal, oil, natural gas, etc.) should long ago have been replaced with biomass such as: cornstalks, cannabis, waste paper and the like.
Hemp Fuel, Bio Mass/Bio Diesel
Anything made from crude oil hydrocarbons, can be made with family farmers home grown veggie oil carbo-hydrates!
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THE GREENING OF CUBA
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AEC, DOE, NRC, Nuclear Murderers
After 15 years of investigating, I have concluded that the United States governments atomic weapons industry knowingly and recklessly exposed millions of people to dangerous levels of radiation. Nothing in our past compared to the official deceit and lying that took place in order to protect the nuclear industry. In the name of national security, politicians and bureaucrats ran roughshod over democracy and morality. Ultimately, the Cold Warriors were willing to sacrifice their own people in their zeal to beat the Russians.
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Central Oregon Green Pages
BUSH CRIME FAMILY LINKS
Kill the Messenger
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CrazyCalvinaFay
WomansWackyVengeance Union
Con Flicts of Interest Bush Barthwell & Drugs
Lotus Goes Green with Hemp Car
Boycotting Exxon and Mobil gas for the greater good of the American people
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Bushit Rumcheney Aspartame Cocktail
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George Bush: Chapter -XV- CIA DIRECTOR
The Leading Edge Research Journal Online
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Hemp vs. Cotton 10/05/00
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Mon$anto'$ WoD on Ditchweed
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Cannabis Vs Trees
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Monsanto/US War on Drugs Poisoning Colombian Environment
Witness: Drug War Spraying Colombia To D.E.A.th
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Colbert Report
An alternative-fuel vehicle utilizing biodiesel derived from hemp.
Hemp Car.org
Henry Ford's Hemp Car
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