90 Years of Progress?

I really don't enjoy ripping on the Big 3 domestic automakers, but come on folks, sometimes its just too easy. The following quote was pulled from the Ford website:

"There's simply no two ways about this fuel question. Gasoline is going - alcohol is coming. It's coming to stay, too, for it's in unlimited supply. And we might as well get ready for it now. All the world is waiting for a substitute to gasoline. When that is gone, there will be no more gasoline, and long before that time, the price of gasoline will have risen to a point where it will be too expensive to burn as a motor fuel. The day is not far distant when, for every one of those barrels of gasoline, a barrel of alcohol must be substituted."

Now for those at home, you're probably thinking this is some politically correct rhetoric spat out by current chairman Bill Clay Ford.

However, you'd also be wrong.

The above statement was quoted by Henry Ford, thats right, the Henry Ford, in the December, 1916 issue of The Detroit News.

Yup, 90 years ago it was no mystery that we'd be in our current prediciment. In the mean time, minus the past 3 or 4 years, we've barely made even a dent in our reliance on oil and gasoline. Pathetic.