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mmmk...did your "friend" take it to a Ford Service Station? and noooo way!

Although they have done things but come on.

Maybe it is true, do you know what this could mean?

Here you go... http://www.snopes.com/autos/business/carburetor.asp

Yeah, I saw that. But you gotta understand, greed is a big thing here. Don't you think oil interests could pay off the auto industry moguls to not implement new efficiency items into their vehicles? And believe it or not, there are ways to get better mileage by manipulating gasoline intake. My dad tried it when he was younger and more reckless, and it worked, but it was rather dangerous, so it wasn't exactly a good idea. I can't tell you what it is, because Ford paid me a couple mil not to release it. well, not really, but I can't remember exactly what the trick was.

I think it had something to do with putting the gas under vacuum, but there was more to it than that.

A handful of folks around here have had their vehicles changed to biodiesel. They run on used fryer oil from restaurants. Some of them have to process it first. Some of them, you can put the oil right into something that looks suspiciously like 'Mr. Fusion' from the Back to the Future movies.

In the war years, coal burners were put on cars, with a converter thing on them, and worked good.

Originally Posted by Charles Hatchway:
..."I had a friend who bought a new pickup, filled it with gas, drove it until it should have been empty, and went to fill it up again, only to find it still almost full"...

The truck probably had two gas tanks, and your friend felt too silly to admit his/her mistake; as to manipulating the gas intake to increase mileage, you can lean out the mixture (less gas, more air...) but it's a fine line between 'better mpg' and "D'oh! That was a bad idea"...

Nope, only had one gas tank, dude.

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