Just now

[dreamer_easy]

Petrol industry guy on the radio complaining that ethanol enjoys tax breaks, and that as a fuel it ought to be made to compete 'on its own merits'. He should hold onto that claim until somewhere in the world a war breaks out over booze.

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[alryssa.livejournal.com]

There was. It was called Prohibition. :P

[gdwessel.livejournal.com]

Damn, beat me to it :-P

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

*cuteblink*

Random fact: Moonshiners would pour their illegal payloads into their gas tanks to avoid being busted by Duh Law.

Another Random Fact: Both of mcganndoc's grandmothers made bathtub gin and bathtub beer during Prohibition. Both grandfathers were cops.

Booze won.

[pedanther]

" - well, swimming bath, actually. I use the bath for whisky."

I remember reading somewhere once that Prohibition actually made things worse in the end, by tilting the nation's drinking habits toward the harder stuff (which was easier to find on the black market, because a still was easier to hide than a brewery).

I don't know if it's true, but I suspect that another seventy years from now people will be saying something similar about the War on Drugs.