" style="margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;" />Secret Fuel Mileage Technology Being Kept From The Public
Are we at the mercy of the big oil companies and dependency on buying oil from countries that hate the US? Watching gas prices continually rise since the 1970’s I thought that our government would offer incentives and promote alternative fuels and technology, but that has not happened.
In 1978 I worked for a Dodge dealership in Sacramento, California. One of the mechanics I worked with had invented a simple carburetor that turned the fuel into a vapor before it went into the engine, greatly improving the fuel mileage for cars. It only had one moving part inside and it looked like a small aluminum coffee can.
This device was tested on an airplane, race cars, and multiple street driven vehicles. The one I saw was a 1977 Dodge Aspen station wagon with a large 6 cylinder engine. It was getting over 50 miles per gallon!
I was very excited about this technology but it never went anywhere. Why? The government wouldn’t even allow it to be officially tested and blocked all attempts to promote it. The reason given was they claimed it was a “explosion hazard” by vaporizing the fuel. But isn’t that how Propane and Natural Gas are used on converted gasoline engines? I would agree that gasoline has a higher flash point but there were no instances of fire or explosion in all of the engines using this technology.
This kind of technology could be used along with Natural Gas, and electric vehicles to help limit our dependency on foreign oil until we advance the technology to gradually move away from carbon based fuels completely.
According to T. Boone Pickins, Iran is converting their cars to natural gas as fast as they can. They are NOT doing it to help the world use less oil, but so they can sell more oil to other countries at over $100 per barrel!
It looks like the US government is not very interested in alternative fuels and technology. Could the oil industry lobbyists be influencing our leaders? How much campaign money is given to candidates and what do they want in return? I honestly believe change is going to come at the “grass roots” level of inventors and scientists.
That’s my opinion, and I could be wrong…..
Posted by Lanny Shaw
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