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TIL in 1925, Henry Ford told the NYT that ethyl alcohol is “the fuel of the future”. There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There’s enough alcohol in one year’s yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.“

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