its true, but go ahead and build a functionong engine that works on alcohol in your garage
THe ONLY reason gas was ever used was because it was cheap...at the time.
Now a whole strata of al societies of this level are dependant on one rescource that cant be used for anyhting else.
HAaaaaaaaaa, those Wasauis must be laughing their heads off in their air conditioned tents...the guys with the most oil the wasauis, were basically teh islamic equivalent of gypsies, and were relegated to teh desert, because they were allowed no other land in any domain of "proper" ilsamic nations...
So they poke around and then they find black water and BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!! tehy got gold forks, air conditioning in mecca, 180 thousand wash basins for cleaing yourself before praying there...cooled deserts you can walk on in bare feet, malls with a men only and women only side to them...its like hte biggest joke ever, its stupid wealth like if reperation for slavery ever went through and fried chicken went for a hundred bucks a piece.