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Where did all those carburators go?

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NY Times, JAD MOUAWAD, May 14, 2008

Some consumer advocates say they are deeply suspicious about the behavior of refiners who are sharply cutting production at a time of record gasoline prices.

“They are not sitting in a boardroom and colluding, but they can see easily enough where their benefit lies, and it doesn’t lie in a price war,” said Judy Dugan, the research director at Consumer Watch. “In a truly competitive market, you might see some of these providers try to improve their market share by reducing prices. But this is not happening. They are all better off by restricting production to keep prices up.”

[Bush and Republican-Congress inaugerated] mergers in the 1990s cut the number of refiners in the country and contributed to reduced competition in the refining market. [including the Enron-Bush attempted bankrupcy of California]

“We let them accumulate market power through the wave of mergers, and we’ve been paying the price in the last five years,” he said. “If there is a small number of players in the market, they learn from each other’s behavior.”

the Fish Carb. & more:
They worked: the Ogle, the Pogue, and many others:   You may remember, years ago, hearing of people who developed very efficient (vaporizing) carburetors that got 100 mpg or 200 mpg or more with the big V8 engines of their day.   There were many news reports and popular magazine articles covering numerous “super” carburetors !

PATENTS

There are quite a number of patents for such inventions on file in the U.S. Patent Office available for all who want to do a patent search.

We must conclude that with so many patents, tests and eye-witness accounts there must be more than just a grain of truth to the cover-ups and facts involved.

RESISTANCE

We know that what is written at this point draws great resistance from those engineers and mechanics who believed it requires a prescribed air/gas mixture ratio to obtain a specific amount of power… and no more. In other words there is a limit as to how far one gallon of gasoline will propel a car (let’s say a large size V-8 auto). Usually this “limit” is the miles per gallon figured advertised by the auto manufacturer. A common mileage rating for a big car is “14 miles per highway”.

One questioning engineer, upon learning about our research, wanted to study our Pogue patents. After a few days study his opinion has been changed. His conclusion now was “it certainly appears possible to greatly improve gas mileage with this different concept of carburation”.

Can one gallon of gasoline propel a car 100 miles ?

How much power is there in one gallon of gasoline ?

” Were all the energy of one gallon of gasoline to be harnessed for the performance of a single purpose, experiments show that it could be made to provide sufficient heat to raise the temperature of 15,000 gallons of water one degree. Put to work, it could furnish enough force to lift 50,000 tons of coal one foot off the ground raise the Woolworth building five and a half inches. Applied to a small auto-mobile, the power is great enough to elevated a light car 450 miles in the air or to propel it at twenty miles an hour for 450 miles over a level road”. Popular Mechanics, July 1924, page 14.

A General Motors executive said this:

” There’s enough power in one gallon of gasoline, if you could utilize it all for mere car push, not taking into consideration engine friction and so forth, to drive a small car on a level paved road, at twenty miles an hour, from Chicago to Detroit, That’s about three hundred miles.” Collier’s October 5, 1929. page 10.

Here’s another way to look at the same concept.

” Only 10% of the heat of the gasoline was being converted into push for the car .” Science Digest , November 1942, page 6.

This of course means that 90% of the “heat energy” stored in a gallon of gasoline is wasted when it is pumped into the conventional automobile engine.

And:

“Today’s auto engine wastes 75% to 80% of the gasoline energy…” Science News Letter, October 2, 1948, page 221.

Or:

“An internal-combustion is essentially an air engine. It pumps air. In less than 50 miles, a 332 cubic-inch Ford engine driving a 2.69 : 1 axle will pump enough air to fill an eight room house. The fuel, of course, goes along in suspension.” “… Raw, indigestible fuel slobbers into the cylinders — into some more than others.” “… Slobbering engines are fuel hogs.” Popular Science, December 1957, page 79.

What about the cars of the 1970’s?

“At its best conventional automobile engine is an inefficient device. In terms of converting the energy content of gasoline into mechanical power, even a top-notch V-8 may throw away three horses out of every four.”

CONCLUSION

We must use the reasonable-man approach to this subject.

There is ample written documentation, even from the auto manufactures, that such inventions do in fact exist ….inventions that can greatly improve gasoline mileage …even to what we might consider the phenomenal.