07-09-2024, 07:53 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-10-2024, 12:05 AM by HereOnThePrimalEdge.)
Why did he waste all that time and just not invent the Tesla in 1908?
Cars were gas, electric, wood, alcohol in those days.
There’s a conspiracy theory that the Rockefeller’s and Standard Oil helped pass Prohibition to do away with the competition for powering cars, alcohol. (Hearst fought against hemp as it competed with his vast forest holdings for paper, but it burned nicely too)(It was a complicated era, when robber barons pushed their weight around with abandon. Honor among thieves, wealthy thieves, as long as the plundering benefited the participants in a particular scheme.)
Cars were gas, electric, wood, alcohol in those days.
There’s a conspiracy theory that the Rockefeller’s and Standard Oil helped pass Prohibition to do away with the competition for powering cars, alcohol. (Hearst fought against hemp as it competed with his vast forest holdings for paper, but it burned nicely too)(It was a complicated era, when robber barons pushed their weight around with abandon. Honor among thieves, wealthy thieves, as long as the plundering benefited the participants in a particular scheme.)