On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@gmail.com>wrote:

> Well then, we can't go "motoring" or watch "motorsports" unless only
> electric vehicles are used.   This has morphed into a Friday discussion,
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​A guess here but it may go all the way back to the first 'horseless
carriages'​

​and many were electric.  Even Ford's first attempt was electric.  Hence
'motoring' or 'motorcar'.  Lack of good batteries and the fact that the oil
companies had a surplus of an unusable byproduct they called gasoline
changed the whole story.....​

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