POV: You're a Gasoline Salesman in 1895

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In 1895, gasoline was a highly volatile waste product that nobody wanted. It was a mere byproduct of kerosene refining, produced so fast that Standard Oil used to dump it into rivers at night.


Follow the journey of a struggling 28-year-old Standard Oil salesman tasked with convincing people to buy this dangerous liquid for just 5 cents a gallon. Barely scraping by, his luck changes when he meets Marcus, a local machinist who built a primitive motorized tricycle. Realizing the massive potential of the internal combustion engine, the salesman begins quietly supplying an underground network of experimenters and engineers who are building the first motor vehicles in barns and basements. He extends them credit and makes midnight fuel deliveries, investing heavily in these relationships even when his superiors tell him it's a waste of time.


When the auto industry explodes in 1899 with names like Henry Ford, the salesman's gamble pays off, and he builds a lucrative empire. However, success comes with a dark cost. The brilliant experimenters who invented the future are quickly bought out by wealthy capitalists for pennies, eventually left unable to afford the very machines they helped bring to life.


While this specific story is fiction, it perfectly captures the brutal economic reality of the early American motor industry, where the mechanics who built the future rarely profited from it.

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