which caused a major increase in the demand for gasoline during the late 1800s and early 1900s?

Answer 1

Various things stemming from the advent of the internal combustion engine.

Cars, planes, machinery.

Answer 2

The combustion engine is the answer, but the reason is still the reason we use gasoline today. It's cheap, powerful and easy to refine.

The first engines were steam, veg. oil, electric, and alcohol.

Steam was too complicated and dirty, you had to haul clean water and coal or wood. Steam, smoke, and cinders worked numbers on machines, and was impractical for smaller machines. Coal was and is used for metal production and wood is used for practically everything.

Veg. Oil was and still is labor-intensive. Veg Oil was more suited for food processing and food prep, as it still is, which drove prices up and demand more eratic.

Alcohol was too flamable and labor intensive. Alcohol like veg oil was more for consumption, it also burns hotter, and is subject to growing seasons.

Electric required all of the above to produce it. Electric charged batteries aren't good for hauling and horsepower, plus electric motors produced: heat, heatloss, and uneven power flux. Some improvements have been made, but horsepower and the fact the battery usually accounts for 2/3's the weight also made it impractical.

Rock Oil, as crude oil was known as was everywhere (at the time) cheap, easily refined, and had no use except for fuel. This made oil cheap, and relatively still is cheap, although refining and taxes have added more to the cost. Refined oil, gasoline or diesel, is more powerful, requires less amounts, and is only consumed for fuel purposes.

The big problem with oil came not with world-wide industrialization, that was inevidible, it was with polymers. In the late 40's to the 60's every year it seemed two or three new polymers were coming out, and they made from oil. Plastics, nylons, styrofoam, various polymers were made from the same cheap oil.

Now we're paying for it, polymer companies wised up in the late 70's and started using veg oils and other chemicals to produce polymers, but auto and oil companies didn't, because oil was and still is cheaper, more practical and more powerful than any other available fuel source.

Answer 3

There is an argument for "G's" answer. The JW's apply this scripture to their organization collectively. That application is not conclusive. It is logical that it could apply to an individual who learns the truth of the Bible gradually. Just a thought from a person who does not even believe in th Bible UPDATE: ADAMS RIB, wow, a little JW hostility. Most un-Christian 1 Peter 3:15: "with a mild manner and deep respect"

Answer 4

think about it, why do people need gasoline? what was invented around the turn of the 1900s that needed gasoline? honestly, do some thinking and its pretty simple.

Answer 5

The internal combustion engine.

Answer 6

duh...THEY INVENTED THE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE. Before that, there was NO gasoline...then they started finding uses for the engines....

Answer 7

The invention of the car

Answer 8

Human is looking for more n more comfort even for normal daily life..