Ethanol Fuel and Henry Ford
When Henry Ford introduced his Model “T” in 1908 , he had intended the car to run on ethanol , as a fuel . Henry knew that ethanol could be manufactured out of almost anything , weeds , vegetables , fruit , or even saw dust or anything that can be fermented !
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Henry Ford was from a farming family and new that fuel crops would help to support the farming industry . Henry even predicted that “ethyl alcohol fuel is the fuel of the future” . Henry once said that a one year crop from one acre of potatoes would provide enough alcohol fuel to operate that farms machinery (of that era) needed to cultivate the fields for a hundred years . Over 100 years after the introduction of the “Model T” Henry’s company(The Ford Motor Company) has in recent years sold over 1.5 million ethanol capable vehicles .
Corn is the most common fuel crop in North America , and many other parts of the world for the production of ethanol , while sugar cane is popular in South America .
