[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  4th Musketeer [@IV_Musketeer](/creator/twitter/IV_Musketeer) on x 51.4K followers Created: 2025-07-19 16:41:26 UTC As I wrote in Tesla & The Cabbage Patch Kids, in the early 1900s, electric vehicles (EVs) weren’t some fringe or futuristic concept, they were already part of everyday life. They made up around one-third of all vehicles on American roads. The New York Police Department used electric patrol wagons and the U.S. Postal Service operated electric delivery trucks. Wealthy city dwellers had home chargers and electric taxis were common in places like New York and London. Apparently electric cars were especially popular with women. In 1899, Belgian inventor and racer Camille Jenatzy set a land speed record of over XXX kph (62 mph) in an electric vehicle called La Jamais Contente, faster than any gasoline car of the time. Clearly, EVs weren’t a failure. They were a threat to oil profits. That threat was met with quiet but calculated suppression, led by John D. Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil and one of the wealthiest men in history. Rockefeller’s empire was built on the control of petroleum, first through kerosene for lamps, then gasoline for vehicles. The electric car didn’t need his product and that made it dangerous. Rather than compete in a fair market, Rockefeller and the powerful industrial elite around him shaped the world to ensure gasolines dominance. They didn’t outlaw electric vehicles, they orchestrated their obsolescence by engineering a world in which they could not survive. Gasoline infrastructure was heavily funded and expanded. Gas stations appeared across the country, while no national push for charging infrastructure ever took place. Meanwhile, the internal combustion engine rapidly improved, backed by automakers like Henry Ford, whose Model T was cheap, powerful and ran on gas. By making gas cars affordable and embedding gasoline into national logistics and infrastructure, electric vehicles were slowly squeezed out — not because they were inferior, but because the system around them was deliberately tilted against them. The corporate war on electrification didn’t stop with personal cars. In the mid-20th century, General Motors, Standard Oil of California, Firestone and other companies were actually convicted in court for dismantling electric streetcar systems in dozens of American cities. They tore out efficient electric public transit and replaced it with gas-guzzling buses, vehicles they profited from. This wasn’t a theory, it’s documented fact. Similarly, when Nikola Tesla tried to build a system for wireless transmission of electricity (free or low-cost power), financier J.P. Morgan withdrew support, allegedly asking, “Where do we put the meter?” It wasn’t that the technology failed, it simply didn’t serve the business model. Rockefeller didn’t act alone, but he embodied the mindset: if something threatens your profit, you don’t out-innovate it — you bury it. The story of electric vehicles is not one of natural technological progress; it’s a story of deliberate suppression. The oil empire needed a world dependent on gasoline and it built one — while silencing or discrediting anything that got in the way. Electric vehicles weren’t too early. They were erased by people who stood to lose everything if the world chose a cleaner, freer path. Today’s narrative that electric vehicles are a bold new solution to old problems is misleading. They were already here. We lost over a century of cleaner transport, cleaner air and more energy independence, not by accident, but because greed crushed innovation. What’s being marketed as the “future” was already the past — until it was buried by those who profited most from keeping it that way. For more details on my work and to order signed copies of my books, please visit my website or send me a message. Thank you! Guy Anderson - Author Tesla & The Cabbage Patch Kids Rise of the Clones: The Cabbage Patch Babies  XXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [ritual](/topic/ritual) [electric vehicles](/topic/electric-vehicles) [tesla](/topic/tesla) [stocks consumer cyclical](/topic/stocks-consumer-cyclical) [stocks bitcoin treasuries](/topic/stocks-bitcoin-treasuries) [Post Link](https://x.com/IV_Musketeer/status/1946611349389287726)
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As I wrote in Tesla & The Cabbage Patch Kids, in the early 1900s, electric vehicles (EVs) weren’t some fringe or futuristic concept, they were already part of everyday life. They made up around one-third of all vehicles on American roads. The New York Police Department used electric patrol wagons and the U.S. Postal Service operated electric delivery trucks.
Wealthy city dwellers had home chargers and electric taxis were common in places like New York and London. Apparently electric cars were especially popular with women. In 1899, Belgian inventor and racer Camille Jenatzy set a land speed record of over XXX kph (62 mph) in an electric vehicle called La Jamais Contente, faster than any gasoline car of the time. Clearly, EVs weren’t a failure. They were a threat to oil profits.
That threat was met with quiet but calculated suppression, led by John D. Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil and one of the wealthiest men in history. Rockefeller’s empire was built on the control of petroleum, first through kerosene for lamps, then gasoline for vehicles. The electric car didn’t need his product and that made it dangerous. Rather than compete in a fair market, Rockefeller and the powerful industrial elite around him shaped the world to ensure gasolines dominance. They didn’t outlaw electric vehicles, they orchestrated their obsolescence by engineering a world in which they could not survive.
Gasoline infrastructure was heavily funded and expanded. Gas stations appeared across the country, while no national push for charging infrastructure ever took place. Meanwhile, the internal combustion engine rapidly improved, backed by automakers like Henry Ford, whose Model T was cheap, powerful and ran on gas. By making gas cars affordable and embedding gasoline into national logistics and infrastructure, electric vehicles were slowly squeezed out — not because they were inferior, but because the system around them was deliberately tilted against them.
The corporate war on electrification didn’t stop with personal cars. In the mid-20th century, General Motors, Standard Oil of California, Firestone and other companies were actually convicted in court for dismantling electric streetcar systems in dozens of American cities. They tore out efficient electric public transit and replaced it with gas-guzzling buses, vehicles they profited from. This wasn’t a theory, it’s documented fact.
Similarly, when Nikola Tesla tried to build a system for wireless transmission of electricity (free or low-cost power), financier J.P. Morgan withdrew support, allegedly asking, “Where do we put the meter?” It wasn’t that the technology failed, it simply didn’t serve the business model.
Rockefeller didn’t act alone, but he embodied the mindset: if something threatens your profit, you don’t out-innovate it — you bury it. The story of electric vehicles is not one of natural technological progress; it’s a story of deliberate suppression. The oil empire needed a world dependent on gasoline and it built one — while silencing or discrediting anything that got in the way. Electric vehicles weren’t too early. They were erased by people who stood to lose everything if the world chose a cleaner, freer path.
Today’s narrative that electric vehicles are a bold new solution to old problems is misleading. They were already here. We lost over a century of cleaner transport, cleaner air and more energy independence, not by accident, but because greed crushed innovation. What’s being marketed as the “future” was already the past — until it was buried by those who profited most from keeping it that way.
For more details on my work and to order signed copies of my books, please visit my website or send me a message.
Thank you!
Guy Anderson - Author Tesla & The Cabbage Patch Kids Rise of the Clones: The Cabbage Patch Babies
XXXXX engagements
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