*Originally Posted by Johnnyorganic:
"Who invented this hemp alcohol powered combustion engine you referenced?"
That would be Henry Ford in America, and Rudolph Diesel in Germany. Perhaps you've heard of them?
My dad is almost 80 now, and is a master mechanic who is the son of a master mechanic.
For their Model T truck and, later, their Model A car, they would buy kerosene (stove oil) and castor oil and mix it with gasoline. They ran better that way (for more reasons than just the fuel's combustibility: the stove oil/kerosene & castor oil added lubrication that early Ford motors were sadly in need of thanks to a pathetic "dip & splash" method of trying to keep the mains bushings and cylinder walls lubed.).
Just as diesels of today can be run on biodiesel, so could gasoline engines be run on similar fuels 80 years ago.
Diesel was always more expensive to produce (it is a byproduct of refining petroleum products, but comes in much later in the refining process than gasoline).
By mixing in just enough gasoline to help promote stable ignition at lower compression ratios, you could safely, and more effectively run the old engines with such mixtures.
And it wasn't so much that whites were worried about the women mingling with blacks & Mexicans, it was a worry to many in those days that ANY whites would be mingling with "colored folk".
My dad's an old coon ass from South East Louisiana (my last name ends in "eaux") who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks a stone's throw from the Atchafalaya Swamp and he never cared what color a person was.
His best friends were cajuns, creoles, Mexicans, Italians, Native Americans, blacks, etc.).
He adopted me, a half T'lingit from South East Alaska, because he knows skin color and heritage don't make someone worse, or better, than anyone else.
But many whites demanded segregation (and many blacks did too, with good reason
). Not just in the South, but all over the nation.
It was an easy way to make cannabis and hemp seem like it would destroy the pristine fabric of white America, and helped put the nail in the coffin for legal hemp and for cannabis.
When I was a little kid visiting my grandma in Addis, we'd drive up to Shreveport to go picnic in a public park that had a small swimming pool. There were still signs EVERYWHERE that said "No Coloreds Allowed", restrooms marked as "Whites Only" & "Coloreds Only", drinking fountains, diners & restaurants, and more. All over the place.
So ease up on the racist tripe.
It wasn't inferred in the original statement, so don't make it seem like it was.
And do some damn research before you start flappin your fingers against the keyboard and hitting the "Enter" key.
Peace
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