Was gasoline the mistake of the century?

Not dismantling Germany was the biggest mistake of the 20th century

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No, but abandoning steam cars was.

>tfw no steampunk monstrosities puffing out great clouds of steam when they accelerate

>>17579009
>wanting vaper cars on the street

>>17579009
As cool as steam engines they are some of the most horribly inefficient engines ever.

>>17580857
Development practically stopped in the 20's. They might have became a lot better if it was developed with modern manufacurting and engineering skills.

>>17580857
>1925 Dobel E-20

That damn car had 150hp and roughly 1000nm. it was 'competitive' in it use of fuel for the time aswell, it could reach 90mph and restored ones these days reach 120mph and get roughly 15-17L/100.

Steam is amazingly powerful and can be so very efficient if done correctly with generators rather then boilers.

>>17578877
No, you are.

>>17580975
>15-17L/100
so
like every normal car any american drives

No, the mistake of the century is probably not pursuing Thorium reactors to instead use other nuclear reactors.
Quite simply if the United States kept going with Thorium, it probably would have peacefully ended the Cold War decades early.
We would not have an energy crisis at all.
We would not have climate change as an issue at all.
There would be no push for solar and wind "renewables".
We had working reactors to boot. Literally the only reason we scrapped it is to make more nuclear weapons.
Gas? Diesel? Small fries. Without polluting coal or natural gas power plants, we'd never need to worry about our fleet of cars.
Expand the rail infrastructure for more shipping, put god damn thorium reactors on international shipping boats.
There. You've now solved the two biggest carbon contributions on the planet. Now drive two muscle cars to work, you redblooded Americans.

>>17580975
>1000 nm
That's 1 µm - a very small car!

>>17581286
you motherfucker

>>17579009
They're called Imprezas

Yes. Electric cars have been in use since the 1880s and were the way things should have went. But greedy white people forced gas cars because you could tax oil more

>>17578877
no but diesel tax rebates in europe was what basically held back gas engine development for 25 years.

Diesel engines was basically the most retarded idea that came out of germany

communist dictatorships are the mistake of the millennium

>>17581588
Found the yankie

>>17578877
No, CO2 tax brackets were. Diesels emit way more harmful shit (NOx anyone?) but nobody cares, because the only things that matter are CO2 emissions for them sweet tax breaks and fuel economy for obvious reasons.

>>17578877
No, diesel was.

>>17578877
>Was gasoline the mistake of the century?
The huge rise in violent and property-based crime occurred as a result of the anti-discrimination laws which also hugely reduced incentives to change for the better.

>>17578910
Amen

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>>17581290
That one got me

Niceu

>>17580975
>no transmission, just direct drive
>1000 Nm torque from a standing start
Is Tesla the revenge of Doble?

>>17581588
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>>17581290

>>17578877
That would be coal.

>inb4 ((((clean)))) coal