[SunkenCiv]

Probably those dastardly oil company skull and bones types who killed off 150 mpg carburetors have something to do with its disappearance. ;') Seems to me that harness racing is only moderately expensive, but it sounds like the perfect hobby for someone who became over-the-night rich...

;')

[js1138]

There really isn't any amount of money that could compensate for the licensing of a product like this, or salve the conscience of an inventor who denied it to the world. Nor is there any reasonable amount of money that could compensate a corporation that owned the product and refused to make it.

On the other hand, my city is home to a guy who bilked major corporations like Cisco out of millions of dollars to develop high speed transmission over telephone lines. He bamboozled a number of industry giants with sleight of hand demos.