ABSTRACT
The current scarcity of coal-fired steam lorries suggests that Monier-Williams was perhaps over-pessimistic. Even nearly 60 years later it is hardly the scarcity of oil that has led to the rapid rise in prices in recent years. Yet, all over the world, for one reason or another, countries face the motorised future with the same apprehension as was reflected in ‘Power Alcohol’ in 1921.
