[GoodOlBoy]

Lonewolf I am not blaming the auto industry for my woes. I am blaming them for THEIRS. They have done this to themselves. Don't TELL me that $15K is a good price for that car Fabs. Read a few reports. They build that $15K for around $2K in parts.

And no. The auto companies wouldn't market a 100mpg carb if they had it. You think because they were the head of an auto company it would keep the crosshairs off of them if they did?

And WHY do you find it so hard to believe that there are designs for a 100mpg carb out there? The prius gets 60+mpg and I have SEEN car tweakers who have reprogrammed the chips and changed a few parts out on them to nearly double the horsepower and STILL get 60+mpg.

You think big auto is so great? Why is it every rice rocket street racer out there who knows the first thing about his engine can multiply the horsepower of his car out the roof and keep the nearly the same fuel millage? You think the opposite is not true that you couldn't spend a little time reprogramming, rechipping, and swap a few parts and get the same horsepower but a multiplier on fuel milage?

Why the sudden breakthrough in fuel milage on vehicles now that congress has passed a bill demanding X milage by X date? You think they magically pulled that out of their butts?

Vehicles in this country (and worldwide) are supressed technology JUST like computers are. In 1994 when I was watching the FIRST 75Mhz and 133Mhz PCs come onto college campuses Intel had already perfected the 600Mhz CPU. They released the 600Mhz CPU five years later in 1999, and computer tweakers that I PERSONALLY knew had systems running at 1.8Ghz that same year! Why? Because for five years Intel and AMD made BILLIONS selling you 166, 200, 233, 266, 300, 333, 350, 400, 450, 466, 500, 550 MHZ machines FIRST. THATS WHY! DO you know how much money they would have lost in upgrades ALONE if they had just sold you the 600Mhz chip in '94? RIGHT NOW you would do good to purchase a 4GHz gaming CPU for a system. They are backordered and not easy to obtain. In 2005 (Three years ago for those that can't count) AMD created the 10Ghz CPU. BUT if they release it they cannot sell you all the interum chips and upgrades. That 4Ghz CPU is going to cost you almost a grand for the proc itself. It costs them around $90 to make.

Ask yourself why people purchase console gaming systems like the Xbox 360 and the PS3 that run top of the line games off of almost no memory and OLD 700Mhz - 950Mhz processors with LOW end video cards, but the SAME games on a PC require 512mb video cards, 4 gigs of ram, and 3GHz procs and typically DON'T look as good as they do on the consoles EVEN THOUGH the consoles run at a MUCH lower resolution rate?

How about Hard drive storage space? Ten years ago you would have told me "I would like to see proof that there are designs for Terabite hard drives!" But the terabite drive was designed and first built in 1978! Thats 1000 gigbites! 10 years ago I couldn't even fathom a 10 GB hard drive! I felt lucky to have my 2GB I had just purchased and though WOW I will NEVER fill this up. Now I can buy a 1 TB hard drive for around $700-$800! Why wouldn't they have been released in 1978? I will grant you that they were MUCH larger (physcially) then, BUT the "micro drive" sized hard drive was invented in the same year and not released until 1982. Why? How many TRILLIONS of dollars have been made over the last 20+ years selling hard drive upgrades? The first computer repair shop I ever worked for we made MOST of our money each year selling and installing progressively larger drives to the SAME people over and over. Seagate technologies built the first micro sized (3.5" standard now is still considered a micro drive) Xobite (1000 Terabites) drive last year. You won't see it anytime soon either.

As a comparison it is the same thing. I believe firmly that we will see that 100mpg carb sold on vehicles. But not before we see the 70, the 80, the 90, etc etc etc. Go to your local autoparts and tell me how many items there are for sale to save you 10% gas here, or 8% there. It's an eye opener.

Give me a break guys. I feel for the employees I really do. But you cannot possible be that out of it.

Whew anyway I am off my rant. Fabs have fun with it, Lonewolf good luck on your hunt this week.

Viva La Supressed Technology!

GoodOlBoy