[blabs]

If you're looking for fuel effiency, forget it. This is controlled so that our consumption of gasoline continues to fund the oil money pool. Devices have been created, even in the early 1900's, that were put on a carburator, that provided over 200 miles to a gallon of gas.

where is it now, you ask? Buried in the vaults of the oil co's. Where's the inventor? Dead of course..

[John Jamieson]

Never happened.

[aculeus]

If you're looking for fuel effiency, forget it. This is controlled so that our consumption of gasoline continues to fund the oil money pool. Devices have been created, even in the early 1900's, that were put on a carburator, that provided over 200 miles to a gallon of gas.

where is it now, you ask? Buried in the vaults of the oil co's. Where's the inventor? Dead of course..

Is that near the vault containing the razor blade formula (10000 shaves per blade) that Gilette has kept off the market?

(Those two urban legends are sooo old, they weren't even called urban legends when they were debunked by the Readers Digest in the 1950s.)