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- Subject: Re: Carburetors, gasoline, and why I don't recycle
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- From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
- Date: 4 Sep 92 18:20:00 GMT
- Reply-To: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
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- Organization: The Courts of Chaos * Jacksonville AR USA * 501-985-0059
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- -> : 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.
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- > Here we go again. What you describe is called an URBAN LEGEND.
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- Yup. It must be that time of year again.
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- About five years ago, Motor Trend did a cover story on an engine that
- burned water. Even the SAE's journal got suckered by that one. After a
- few months, they quietly dropped the stories.
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- Oh, and don't forget the Smokey Yunick Miracle Motor, or the various
- wonder machines burning methane from fermented chicken manure, or any of
- dozens of Popular Science specials.
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