| google_ad_section_start --> | | | | Just like that mythical carburetor are hundreds of |
| Owning and operating a motor vehicle is an | | | | other devices that are put on the market each year |
| expensive process. Besides coming up with the | | | | in order to entice economically-minded drivers to |
| money to actually buy the car or truck, owners need | | | | save on gas. The devices vary; some are electronic, |
| to pay for maintenance, auto insurance and most of | | | | some are magnetic and some add some sort of |
| all, gasoline. With the price of gasoline reaching | | | | "slickness" compound to fuel or oil. Some atomize the |
| ever-higher levels, more and more motorists are | | | | fuel to make it burn more efficiently. Still others |
| trying to find ways to save money. And every time | | | | involve moving parts to stir the fuel or spray mists |
| the price rises, the media are suddenly flooded with | | | | of water into the intake manifold to cool the engine |
| advertisements for a wide variety of devices that | | | | temperature. |
| purport to perform miracles with the internal | | | | All of these devices have two things in common - |
| combustion engine while providing owners with huge | | | | they promise to save you a fortune in gasoline costs, |
| increases in gas mileage. | | | | and they don't work. |
| Almost everyone has heard the ages old story of | | | | The internal combustion engine is well over a hundred |
| the guy who invented a carburetor that would allow | | | | years old. It is proven, it is understood and it is a |
| a car to travel up to 200 miles on a gallon of gas. | | | | relatively mature product. Engineers are certainly |
| The device never reached the market, the story | | | | finding ways to refine the ways the engine works |
| goes, because General Motors or Big Oil or some | | | | and each year new ways are found to improve the |
| other Corporate Entity bought the rights to the | | | | product in some way. Small increases in performance |
| device to prevent it from reaching the market. The | | | | or economy are commonplace. Dramatic increases in |
| story isn't true; there is no such device and never | | | | economy, such as those that might yield a threefold |
| really was one. It is true that in the 1930's an | | | | increase in gas mileage, are simply not possible. |
| inventor did patent a carburetor that claimed to do | | | | It might be tempting to respond to the late-night |
| such things, but the devices was never manufactured | | | | television commercial or magazine ad in order to |
| and working prototypes were never demonstrated. | | | | increase your car's mileage by ordering a device that |
| The patent has expired, but no one is pursuing this | | | | "Detroit doesn't want you to have." If you order |
| device. It doesn't work. | | | | them, you are just throwing your money away. |