Throughout history, many industries have lobbied the government to further their interests and protect their sources of profit. Is there any legislative record of alcohol manufactures or sellers attempting to lobby the government to stop prohibition from being passed. If so, why exactly did they fail to stop prohibition, and what made it different from the successful lobbying compared to the modern fossil fuel industries such as natural gas and oil?
my information is a paraphrased bit of info from the book "war on alcohol: prohibition and the rise of the american state" by lisa mcgirr. it's an EXTREMELY detailed accounting on the entire prohibition era.
the slide into total prohibition of alcohol was slow, it wasn't all at once. even when the 18th amendment was ratified in 1919, the country wasn't totally "dry" until 1921/22.
a large reason why lobbying did not work was in big part because the issue wasn't limited to the sale/consumption of alcohol (however convenient radical anti-alcohol religious groups were to prop it up).
a massive cultural change that's frankly been lost to us is that bars prior to the prohibition era weren't just places to drink alcohol -- they were social and political hubs for their communities. these were what saloons were for, not just alcohol.
in the mid 19th - early 20th, america saw the largest mass immigration from all corners of the globe, to the point where 80% of the population in some neighborhoods were solely first-generation immigrants. and the best place to keep your culture, learn about your home country or your new country, was in saloons.
so, tl;dr a major reason for prohibition wasn't because alcohol was the devil's drink, it was racism and xenophobia. closing saloons meant immigrant, african-american, and poor neighborhoods lost their political footing or cultural connections. religious zealousness was using alcohol as a scapegoat.
the reason it stuck around so long was because the crime lords of the time who sold/distributed alcohol profited in what would be billions a year today. as such, they were the ones who had the government in their back pocket.
the criminalization of alcohol also fed the prison system, where the labor from those incarcerated from even the most minor alcohol infractions was used to build major infrastructure (like roads or highways) in large cities.
tl;dr2 major lobbying by alcohol manufacturers in the way you are picturing wasn't really a thing because prohibition was a massive failure: the alcohol industry did just fine profit-wise. it was only the (not rich and not [the right kind of] white) citizens who suffered.