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  1. WI U.S. became self-sufficient in oil by 1990?

    This is a thought experiment I've been playing with for a while now. Following the energy crises of the 1970s, U.S. oil consumption dropped from a peak of 18.85 mbpd in 1978 to 15.23 mbpd in 1983, when various energy conservation tax incentives approved during the Carter Administration expired...

  2. WI: Gasoline prices in the U.S. matched those in UK/Europe?

    Like the tin says, what if gasoline prices in the United States over the past 50-60 years had been similar to those in Europe? How would that change the auto industry, land use planning, lifestyles, crude oil imports and domestic production? If we look at England, for example, we see smaller...

  3. WI German Army prepared for "General Winter"

    Many apologies if this has been discussed before (I'm sure it has, but the Search function refuses to cooperate with me this morning), but what would be the impact if the German High Command had taken Napoleon's lesson to heart regarding Russia and General Winter? Let's say Barbaross is launched...

  4. A new Black Death?

    While doing some research on the Black Death for a separate project, the question occurred to me: Why hasn't there been a new disease to rival the casualties and social disintegration caused by the Black Death in the 600 years since it peaked in Europe? Which led to the next question: What if...

  5. Sail NY to SF versus overland

    Does anyone have any information on how long it took a ship to sail from New York to San Francisco around the Horn in, say, 1850, versus traveling overland before the railroad was built? I'm assuming overland travel would include riverboat down the Ohio and up the Missouri to St. Louis, then...

  6. WI a Pacific Republic created at outbreak of CW?

    While doing some research this past week in old newspapers on the opening months of the American Civil War, I came across two separate articles about reports from California concerning a movement to create a "Pacific Republic" if war broke out between the United States and the Confederacy...

  7. Alternate fashions spin-off: Bring back formal headwear

    With the alternate fashion thread devolving into Predator invisibility suits and color-coordinated long johns, here's my attempt at a more serious, if still light-hearted, question. John F. Kennedy killed the men's hat industry when he walked down Pennsylvania Avenue bare-headed at his...

  8. What if a Native American uprising wiped out colonies?

    In the early 1640s the Narragansett sachem (roughly: chief) Miantonomi was successfully organizing the tribes of the Connecticut River Valley and Long Island to rise up against the Puritan and Pilgrim colonies that were being established along the river and around Massachusetts Bay. The major...

  9. Challenge: Development of a common language for Europe

    Is there any way that Europe could have developed a common language, rather than the current polyglot of tongues? Up through the Renaissance Latin was the language of science and law (and religion, of course), but the usage never filtered down to the general population. I've seen it argued that...

  10. New World trades plagues with the Old World?

    After no luck with the Search function here, I’m posting a general question for everyone: Does anyone recall a TL revolving around or at least incidental to the introduction of new diseases from Native Americans to Europeans, on a scale approximating that of the damage caused by European disease...

  11. WI: China adopted Latin alphabet?

    OK, so I've been reading here for several years, but in posting terms I'm so green the sap is still flowing. N00b in spades. In researching the history of the printing press, one point came up repeatedly in reference to its invention in China -- the tens of thousands of characters in written...
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