亨利·福特曾经走遍佛罗里达州，希望买地种植甘蔗，因为他认为美国无法忍受燃烧化石燃料所造成的污染和进口石油生产汽油所造成的能源依赖。
Henry Ford once scouted Florida in hopes of buying tracts of land to plant sugar cane, convinced that the United States would not tolerate the pollution from burning fossil fuels or the dependency implicit in importing oil to produce gasoline.