not really, his engine at the time was a total failure, no one wanted to buy it and he had lost everything and was drowning in debt anyways. odds are he offed himself. it was intended to run off of peanut oil so that farmers and rural people who couldn't get gasoline could grow their own peanuts, and make fuel for it. the other benifits that we associate with diesel engines today weren't even a thought back then. was simply to fill a void in the rural market.