OK - now I'm really pissed off!
Most people, with exception of us die-hard carburetor guys, believe we have to either drill for more dino-juice or develop alternative fuel, the most expensive fuel-cell machine, on-demand Hydrogen, electric or whatever. No wonder the oil/automotive industries have managed to screw us for so long. I mean, we get screwed daily without even the pleasure of an occasional kiss. It's like having climaxless sex!
The simple fact is - we, the people, just don't get it.
Most of us believe what our corporate leaders and politicians actually tell us the truth; "Everything is fine folks, you just need to give us a bunch more cash developing things you really don't need right now, or already have, and just bear with the piss-poor, inefficient, expensive, gas-guzzling, unneeded equipment we car manufacturers offer you, and bear with the off-and-on highly inflated price of fuel. And, by the way, we need more cash to put together the executive bonus and golden parachute funds."
By the way, if one considers how much energy it takes to develop and manufacture "green items", like efficient, rechargeable batteries for automobiles, or hydrogen-fueled autos, wind-driven machines, and other government-grant research on even more ridiculously expensive machines - one would realize that, with energy savings, it would all pay for itself in approximately 500 years!
So, now they (the auto-guys) want yet another bailout. And it will probably pass the Senate with the required, very complicated and useless, improvement plan. Shall we get real and clean out our BS filter so that we may filter out the crap these guys are feeding us?
It's true, cars will get more efficient and thus more expensive - that's the cost of efficiency. The basic fact is that, with perhaps the exception of fusion, we can get more mileage from the equipment we already have by changing the fuel intake system and getting rid of the computer junk that tries to compensate for inefficient fuel burning which results in very nasty emissions we have to breathe.
The gas and automotive folks already know about this and what to do to correct it; but you will probably never see a reasonable, already developed gas saving device implemented. It would not be as profitable as the keeping things basically as they are while "researching" for an expensive transportation alternative. Besides, if they get in trouble again, they can get bailed out again - millions of jobs are good leverage for that scenario. Keep that fact hidden that the company CEO along with his staff probably makes more every year than the entire blue-collar workforce on the factory floor, including worker's benefit packages.
How would you like to get over 100 miles per gallon on your present vehicle? Caddy, Hummer, bummer, SUV, et al? Well, you could easily do it if the automobile/oil industry and our government would make it so. The equipment has been invented and proven itself - it has been well documented so it is not a "conspiracy theory" I am passing on to you; it actually is a conspiracy waged by the automotive and oil companies! The truth is, it's been around for decades and only the people who proved the processes, and perhaps a few close friends, have used the equipment. I'm talking about something that I have actually proved to myself - The Total Fuel Vaporizer!
You see, this is the way our present equipment works: The internal combustion engine explodes fuel vapor in the combustion chambers (cylinders). However, what is actually delivered to the chambers is a mixture of vapor and raw gasoline. The gas vapor is compressed in the engine cylinder, causing it to explode which forces the pistons to move and furnish mechanical power move the vehicle. What happens to the raw gasoline? It is directed toward the exhaust pipe via the "anti-pollution" devices controlled by, you guessed it, the auto computer. The anti-pollution devices remove some (but not nearly enough) of the combustion/gas emissions exhausted into our atmosphere. However, if only pure gas vapor was exploded in that cylinder (combustion chamber), resulting emission pollution would be practically non-existent. In short, we would have a much cleaner world if the people involved would quit screwing the public.
In the 70's I read about a young man named Tom Ogle who invented and proved, under very strong scrutiny, that his Total Fuel Vapor system could achieve 100+ miles per gallon of gasoline on normal sized vehicles. His test car was a 70's vintage Mercury with a V8 engine. It proved itself and was well received - at the time. Google Tom Ogle for the full details.
Several years later, when working maintenance for a very large aircraft builder, we read about a farmer in the Northwest who ran his truck on fuel vapors by running a hose from the top of his gas tank (not in the liquid) to the intake of his carburetor. Most considered this a BS story but another maintenance guy and I decided to check it out. To make a long story much shorter - we set-up and ran a 6 cylinder gasoline engine by clamping a hose on the intake of it's single-barrel carb and hung the bitter-end in the top of a large (5 gal) bucket containing a gallon of gasoline. We successfully ran the engine for a half hour at idle RPM (about 500-600). Increasing acceleration caused the engine to die. We then found that we could successfully increase the RPM by agitating the bucket of gasoline. We decided not to continue because, on it's own, gas vapor is highly explosive and we had no desire to become "crispy critters". All it would take is one back-fire! It was apparent to us that, properly contained and distributed,the already proven, Total Fuel Vaporizer is a shoe-in for tremendous gas savings and near elimination of pollution..
So, basically, our very simple experiment proved the total vapor theory and we felt sure, since there was renewed exposure, that a vapor system was coming to a store near us very soon. We were wrong.
So, dearest readers, here's the bottom line: You probably already know most of this stuff, but the auto and oil industry and the majority of our government officials really don't give a rat's you-know-what about us, the consumer; it's all about favors, campaign contributions and profits. If you think I'm wrong - checkout history - you'll find the same process over-and-over. Ain't that the stark-naked truth? Why yes, it is!
So here's my challenge to our government: If you are really concerned about the manipulations created by the auto, oil industries, and related corporations, force them to use products that actually save gasoline; in other words, while researching alternatives, improve what we have already. Put the government laboratories to work on something other than figuring out destructive stuff and show the unwilling companies what does or does not work. Are we asking too much? Perhaps.....
