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To: William Epstein who wrote (12588)7/1/1999 7:57:00 PM
From: Gordon Quickstad  Read Replies (3) of 27311
 
Off topic. Do you remember looking in J.C. Whitney catalogs of that era and seeing all the devices that claimed to improve gas mileage? I swear if you bought them all you would also have to buy a large tank to drain off the fuel that would be flowing OUT of your car from the accumulative benefit. I sorta liked the idea of electrical taping the cow magnet on the fuel line to align the gas molecules. The only devices that had a chance of working were the ones that had you advance your timing as the last step after installing the device. Just avoid steep hills on hot days!

Why would Ford squelch an improvement that would sell enormous numbers of cars? If the engineers developed a device that saved half (you're saying a 4 to 7 times improvement) the fuel consumption in the free world, it would be worth far far more than 11 million bucks at that time. Those engineers are to be despised more than any corporation for being environmental criminals and incredibly dumb. Why haven't two more engineers come up with the same device; are we getting less advanced? And why would they build two prototype automobiles to demonstate a device that would give most cars of that time 80 - 140 MPG?

PS - what's the patent number?
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