On Dec 18, 8:54 am, dpb wrote:

Well, yeahbbut...

If there were a real market, it would make it out. While there may be an element of truth in the claims, it's unlikely this miracle product, whatever it might be, would be producible at a competitive price or not have some other problem or somebody would be doing it...there are an awful lot of bright folks out there.

I agree. While I am sure that huge manufacturing concerns have bought
out their competitors and their product since time immemorial, I don't
think good product stand much of a chance of being on the sidelines
anymore. I think too many companies are too hungry and the chance to
make a buck is too much to resist.

I think we believe what we want to, especially if we are feeling a
little screwed about something. I remember in the 70s when we had the
first gas crunch, it really changed the way people looked at gas. It
became a precious commodity. Then somewhere along the late 70s, early
80s, all of us "in the know" KNEW that Bill Lear, the genius inventor
had an 80+ mpg carburetor that was a simple bolt on to any car. In
fact (the irony was lost on me at the time) the myth went that they
tried it on Chevy trucks (wow.. I was driving a 3/4 ton Chevy at the
time that got a solid 10 mpg) and it worked!

But then GM found out about it and bought it for almost 100 million
dollars, because we found out that General Motors owned the oil
companies. Yup, the job site brain trust was able to come up with a
good theory in spite of a lack of facts.

I later saw Bill Lear's wife and his best friend on a documentary/
biography and they even talked about the 90 mpg carburetor. They had
both heard of it, both got a chuckle out of it, and were amazed that
it had such legs. They both said the same thing: Bill invented
faster than he could come up with a money source to try out his ideas,
and he was ALWAYS cash poor.

They were both in complete agreement that if Bill had come up with
something that important, he would have sold it in a heartbeat. And
since this guy was at his side for soemthing like 20 years, he felt
like he would have known about a project that had actually gone to
live testing.

But we sure "knew" that to be true for about 20 years. And there for
a while it resurfaced every time we had a spike in gas price.

Robert