Ethanol wasn’t killed by Prohibition at Rockefeller’s request: another alt-fuel myth busted
By feedback@highgearmedia.com (Sean Szymkowski) For almost a century, many people have blamed oil magnate John D. Rockefeller for the demise of ethanol as a viable fuel for internal-combustion engines. He fought its use, the theory goes, to eliminate competition for the gasoline derived from his Standard Oil business—whose descendant companies still extract and sell …read more