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Pastimes : Scammy Awards... Thursday, Feb 25, 1999 at 9pm EST -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DonP who wrote (92)	1/7/1999 4:07:00 PM
From: DonP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 445

BAT International (OTCBB:BAAT) Scammiest stock of the year. These people have been trying to sell Dolphin Pulsecharging for years. They claim that through a few simple modifications they can improve the power output and or fuel efficiency of any internal combustion engine by 30 to 50%. This year they "demonstrated" the technology by modifying a 1995 GEO Metro and getting 95 miles per gallon compared to the standard 50 MPG of a stock Metro. These simple modifications included replacing the the Geo 4 cylinder gasoline engine with a 3 cylinder diesel engine that reportedly been modified by BAT. (Bat promoters didn't mention the fact that diesel fuel contains 13% more energy than gasoline and that diesel engines are 35% more efficient than gasoline engines because they operate at higher compression.) They then over inflated the Metro's tires to 50 PSI (reducing road resistance so it took less fuel to move the car) and drove around on a level track at 40 miles per hour. The saddest part is they pulled this same scam three times in 1998 as insiders continued to dump shares into the runups. Don't miss BAT press releases, they'll probably get a Hugo award too.