who knew?

[uncle henry]

i found this old picture thought ethanol was a new gas but i guess not

 

[da.bees]

Might be a promo spread. Not a coincidence it was shot in the corn belt.
 

[LenND]

Great picture. According to the style of autos it would be in late twenties or early thirties I would think. Len
 

[Lazy WP]

They have been making ethanol since there has been gasoline powered engines.
 

[Dan-in-MO]

Well, I'd say they've been makin' ethanol ever since the first cave man got schlockered on grape juice that was starting to turn.
 

[JMS/.MN]

When Henry Ford came out with the Model T, he intended for it to run on ethanol. Gasoline, back then, was a by-product of oil refining.
 

[wisbaker]

Henry Ford was a proponent of ethanol fueled vehicles. I have read some books that indicate in the late 20's they were predicting we would be out of crude oil around 1940 and some of the innovations found in 1930's cars were an attempt to develop internal combustion engines to run on things other than gasoline. Unfortunately the Doom & Gloomers never really research resource economics and what actually happens when we run out of something or it becomes scarce. If we had educated resource economists with basic math skills working in our government they wouldn't be making the costly mistakes they are doing that are costing us a bunch of tax money and killing a lot of our jobs. Of course they would also tell us that more Government is not the answer, so we now know why we don't have competent resource economists in our government.
 

[farmerjohn]

If you think electric powered cars are a recent idea I saw in our newspaper archives that "Mr. so-and-so received delivery of a new electric automobile and is delighted with its preformance..." The newspaper was dated around 1910.
 

[Goose]

Looks like downtown Lincoln, looking southwest from the north side of P Street, at about 11th.
 

[Wile E]

I heard that too.
Gasoline has more btus, so it gives more HP per gallon. Gasoline is used now and back then because it has more energy than Ethanol.
 

[gtractorfan]

Wouldn't want to navigate that open stairway with too much alcohol in the system!
 

[Adirondack case guy]

Looks like thr vertical pole supporting the fireescspe might be the express lane. Grab hold and zoom down. LOL
Loren,the Acg.
 

[ericlb]

you rare right total electric cars and trucks were among the first types of vehicles, what killed them off back then was the same thing that makes them almost useless today, battery types, early storage batterys were big, high maintenance and quickly depleted, today the only improvement is they are smaller and weigh less
 

[ericlb]

i was reading awhile back where i believe the Chicago tribune had a fleet of totally electric powered trucks to deliver its papers in the city back in 1913,they had mixed results with them, but they did spend a lot of time going and pulling them back to the offices when they ran out of battery power