So Doc could build a steam powered refrigerator, could rebuild a fuel injection manifold in a month given 1880s tools, didn’t even think to build a carburetor. In the same amount of time it took him to make railroad wheels and do all the other things they needed for their little scheme.
"Gas? To brighten up the inside of your techno coffin?
… Oh, you mean whale oil. NP"
I have no idea what kind of products were first refined. I’m sure it was nothing like the cracking processes of the present.
Gotta fill 'er up with moonshine, the GOOD stuff
“Damn! Blew the fuel injection manifold. Strong stuff, all right: it’ll take me a month to rebuild it.”
So Doc could build a steam powered refrigerator, could rebuild a fuel injection manifold in a month given 1880s tools, didn’t even think to build a carburetor. In the same amount of time it took him to make railroad wheels and do all the other things they needed for their little scheme.
Pappy’s blind but big Sherry went boom boom boom!