They tried!
"Prohibition"
Henry Ford and the Model T, designed to operated on both gasoline and ethanol (along with kerosene). Rockefeller, whose Standard Oil monopoly depended on widespread automotive consumption of gasoline, saw the possibility of ethanol-powered vehicles as enough of a threat to his business
Rockefeller had a hand in establishing Prohibition.
His contributions to the Women's Christian Temperance Union - which, in turn, used the funds to persuade U.S. Congressmen to pass the 18th Amendment and the subsequent Volstead Act - totaled millions of dollars.
2.5-5
“The factories that build microprocessors … cost between $10-$20 billion and can take three to five years to build,”
https://builtin.com/hardware/american-made-semiconductor-costs
>I used to play in abandon gold mines near iNTEL / folsom. Now it's buildings.
WOW! I lived in Rancho C. for 18 years, Worked on those buildings as well.