Rockefeller funded Prohibition as a means of eliminating ethanol as an automotive fuel.

Rockefeller funded Prohibition as a means of eliminating ethanol as an automotive fuel.

On one side was farm-made ethyl alcohol, and on the other side was oil. Henry Ford made many cars that used the former, and John D. Rockefeller, the owner of Standard Oil, wanted cars to use only the latter.

Rockefeller deeply funded organizations behind the "dry cause," and ultimately he got what he wanted: the banning of alcohol for both cars and humans.