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- From: dlou@ECE.UCSD.EDU (Dennis Lou)
- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Subject: Re: Carburetors, gasoline, and why I don't recycle
- Message-ID: <9209020631.AA19462@worf>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 06:31:22 GMT
- References: <1992Sep02.010828.24870@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep02.010828.24870@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> ejhupper@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Huppertz) writes:
- >You see, carburetors have been the subject of much study for decades.
- >And there have been several enterprising groups who have developed
- >carburetors and engine systems which are hyper-efficient by
- >comparison to today's standards, but only par for the course where
- >scientific development is concerned. I once read an article which
- >stated, as I recall, that one such fuel-injection system promised
- >to double the effective power of its engine, while extending gas
- >mileage to well over 130 (that's one hundred thirty) miles per
- >gallon. On a news program years ago, I saw a group of college
- >students who had developed a carburetor that guaranteed at least
- >100 miles per gallon of regular unleaded gasoline.
-
- Carburetors?!?! Are you kidding? Is there a car sold in the U.S.
- today that still uses those idiotic things? Are you trying to tell me
- that a tube stuck in a venturi is smarter than an airflow
- sensor, computer controlled fuel injector and oxygen
- sensor?
-
- Face it, there's no way one of those gizmos is going to do much better
- than a good old Bosch L-Jetronic.
-
- You're a computer person. Go buy a PROM burner and reprogram your
- Honda PGM-FI for 130mpg.
- --
- Dennis Lou || "But Yossarian, what if everyone thought that way?"
- dlou@ucsd.edu || "Then I'd be crazy to think any other way!"
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