In
1952, I wrote a short paper called When the
Machines will Stop.
My mom had given me a wonderful new copy of the Encyclopedia
Brittanica and I studied the rates of production, consumption
and
discovery of petroleum in the U.S. and the rest of the world since WW
II. The Korean War was going on and it seemed we should know how long
oil would last. I was busy designing engines and weapons at the time
and enjoyed doing my personal research of a technical nature.
My paper
started
like this:
"I
see the day ahead when all the machines will stop.
When
all the means of industry will fail.
When the
great metallic birds will refuse to leave the ground
When
all the cars and trains and boats will sit
For
lack of simple fuel.
I
see all the wheels just rolling to a halt.
When
all the tools and factories will end their noisy toil.
A
sudden silence will pervade over the lands.
The
anger and ensuing accusations will do nothing
For
nothing can be done.
Too
late. The prophets who dared warn us will be stoned.
That
day is fast approaching at an unrelenting pace."
LaP
The date I gave
in my 1952 paper for the end of petroleum was 2010 to 2020.
There
was madness in what I wrote because when I mentioned my hard-won facts
to anyone, I was ridiculed. Even by my teachers. So the matter was
dropped and in following years, I felt compelled to search for mileage
additives and to research the subjects of fuel, combustion and engine
design. This included rocket engines and jet engines too. I mastered
internal combustion designs in general because of my interest in
economy. I was amazed that the oil companies and car companies did not
take much interest in economy because it was obvious the oil was going
to end in the near future. Possibly even in my lifetime. I assumed the
powerful companies had done similar research with far greater accuracy
and more certainty that I had.
The
term given today for the coming lack of available petroleum is PEAK
Oil. Recently
the price of gasoline sat at four bucks a gallon. But I worry more
about the emissions and heating of the atmosphere than the prices
because the Climate Change will just get worse without an immediate
remedy such as good mileage. Mileage is the one thing that can cure
Global Warming. Peak oil is when the demand becomes
greater than the supply. That peak condition was met in 2005. Much
sooner
than I predicted. So from now on, expect fuel prices to
excalate. I expect massive inflation per what I learned in my econ
classes because transportation is key to our economy. Everything
follows the cost of transportation.
But
new cars from Detroit do not show any better mileage than cars in the
30s. The exceptions are Mazda, Toyota and Honda. Bless the hybrids. So
I continued with my mileage and energy experiments by myself, sinking
several hundred grand into experiments over the years. I invented one
device after another to commonly double the MPG of various cars. Not
just with one device but with a combination of devices. I found a
surprising number of fuel additives that improved mileage rather
significantly. Why, I wondered, did the big companies not do this also?
Why do they refuse to do the right thing? The task itself was not
difficult but took 50 years for me working alone without funding to put
it all together. I succeeded in efforts to break 60 MPG in
my Neon with the help of a Fog Device. Why does Detroit not have cars
like this?
The
answer of
course is that the big companies are involved in high profits rather
than conservation or reducing pollution. They prefer to make money. Big
money. REALLY BIG MONEY. The oil companies are the most profitable
in History. And the
guys who run the car companbies own stock not in their flaky car firms but in
oil stocks. That means they probably all want the world's fuel to get
low
so they can charge more bucks for scarce gasoline. This lesson was
painfully spelled out for me in 1976 by the head of research in Ashland
when he told me (word for word) in his indirect manner but with pointed
malice and obvious anger, "Why should we sell them 1-1/4 gallons of gas
for 3/4 dollars when we can sell them 3/4 gallons of the same gas for
1-1/4 dollars?" IOW less for more. Then he threatened me for having
published an article on mileage where I innocently mentioned acetone
could boost MPG. He called acetone the "A-word."
He told me I would never publish again and they would have me
blacklisted from all publications in this country if I ever talked
about mileage or acetone again.
I
had previously described my years of
experiments with mileage. In fact I remember everything as if it
happened in slow motion--so great was the fear that welled up in me. He
raised his voice on that cold day outside the test hut where nobody
could hear us but he did not swear or use bad language. He had my full
and wide-eyed attention and his message was clear. I certainly believed
him and assumed he feared and hated that "A-word" and what it could do
to his company profits.
It
seemed obvious they already had tested acetone and from the data knew
its potential
for great mileage--the last thing in the world they wanted. I had the
impression it loomed as some kind of threat to him and/or the
company--so I been terribly naive. He waved the magazine in my face and
threatened I would never again work in the industry if I did not grasp
the essentials of the business--which was profit.
He implied the aim of the oil industry was to make money--not to give
things away. In any case, he scared the crap out of me. In fact I did
not mention acetone again for 25 years, regardless of the First
Amendment. Then in 1998, it became clear I no longer cared if they
killed me or made life difficult and I started my site ArmorDev.com and then LubeDev.com.
Then sometime around 2001, I began SmartGas.net--with grave
reservations, believe me. So I mentioned acetone in several articles on
both sites dealing with acetone.
The very real problems with Global Warming were severe and I could do
something about it--hopefully So I did, no matter what came of it.
I
was and am very sorry that I took the threats seriously and stopped
writing about acetone for about 25 years. The final implied threats the
man made that cold day in Ashland, after telling me I would never
publish again if I mentioned acetone, were these: "We CAN do
that. Don't think we can't. And if that does not stop you, there are
other ways." So today I am trying to make up for my cowardice in
believing the statements he made, most likely on orders from above. If
I had continued to warn the public back then, maybe the pollution in
the atmosphere today would not be so great. I am indeed sorry.
In
Santa Fe Springs, I told my friend Amos (and others too) what was
said to me. Amos replied, "I wondered what he would say to you about
the A-word. Maybe you should listen to him."
Today when I am threatened, usually by some hysterical oil company
stooge, I send copies of the threat to interested parties and friends
around the country, just in case. Others would carry the torch.
Meanwhile I want to finish some books, newspaper articles and more
articles on this and other sites about the urgent need for mileage
to help against Greenhouse Gases.
If
I sound brutal regarding the big oil and car companies, they deserve
it. At least the top executives do. They are ruthless people and not at
all concerned with the consequences of their actions--just like
criminals. NO conscience at all. They appear to have a total lack of
conscience and guilt. They are most responsible for
Global Warming. And the carbon pollution over our
heads is growing. The oil and car companies are almost
entirely responsible for Global Warming. There is no doubt about that.
There certainly is no silly debate going on, as they claim. They
use smoke and deception. The data is in. The facts are known.
There is no scientific disagreement. There is only accord on many
diverse scientific levels about the desperate need to curb CO2
and methane emissions. But will they do anything about it? Hell no.
Sure they promise things like hydrogen fuel cell cars in the future.
But this is just PROPAGANDA to keep their jittery investors from
jumping ship. They are spending millions trying to keep the issue
confused and buy political groups to counter the very notion of Global
Warming. Exxon-Mobil appears to be the worst of the big spenders in
this area, according to the newspaper accounts. The fuel cell cars are
in the VERY distant future while we need MPG and pollution remedy right
now. Today. And they could very easily give us much better MPG right
away but will not do the right things. The ethical things. And how come
YOU (the readers) are not angry? YOU could stop their blood-sucking
practices. You vote, don't you? You buy cars. Dump the American cars.
Buy Japanese cars with good mileage. That would be a nice start.
Look
at the physical consequences of burning all that fuel needlessly. The
weather is changing drastically. The greenhouse effect is no myth. This
winter is the warmest I have ever seen in normally frozen Minnesota.
The melting glaciers are no myth. The real possibility of a coming ice
age is no myth. The rising sea level is no myth. I have seen the photos taken from space. Groups of scientists
with information on the problems have gone to Washington for hearings
with Senators. But the scientists' data and concerns have been ignored
by the politicians--even ridiculed. Our elected officials have their
heads buried deeply where the sun won't shine. And they are paid to do
so. You may have watched some of the proceedings about fuels on C-Span.
The lobbyists were clearly in charge of what I saw going on. And who
pays these lobbyists? Hmmm, let's think.
The
fundamental position of the oil companies is based on RAMPANT GREED.
There is no other way to describe what they are doing all over the
world. Their secrets are now out in the open. They have hidden the
possible additives that can improve MPG by every possible means from
seeing the light of a newspaper or magazine. Have you run across any
mention of acetone anywhere else? That is because they have been afraid
it might catch on. For 50 years (at the very least) they have kept the
lid on this nice additive and others that can help MPG in your cars and
trucks. And do you think some gutsy U.S. senator is going to insist
that the gas companies improve the gasoline for better MPG? Hell no.
The big companies most likely put that guy in the senate to keep the
lid on MPG additives. The woods in Washington are filled with
candidates and lobbyists from Texas oil companies. That is a fact..
And
the wounds on the face of Earth are not just in North America. A
crown of bloody thorns surrounds the globe. For instance
I spoke
with a student named Katie just back from Central America and
what she saw was horrible. She called it Eco-terrorism that is being
waged by the oil companies in Central and South America. She described
huge pools of raw oil that were dumped into the ground in Equador by
Texaco--and elsewhere. Originally this terrible practice was done by
Texaco. Today that company is named Petro-Equador but is probably still
operated by the same people who are American oilmen. The indigenous
people in that area are suffering a variety of diseases from the death
of infants to many children being born with birth defects. The death of
wildlife is enormous for kilometers around the pools of raw petroleum.
Rain washes the oil into the streams and lakes and there is basically a
wasteland that surrounds the area of an oil pool. This destruction
would not be tolerated in the U.S. but apparently the native people in
Central and South America do not matter and are regarded as sub-human
by the oilmen in charge down there..
We
could reduce our petroleum consumption with higher
MPG, If we could just get Detroit and Big Oil to cooperate. This is a
badly needed goal for better gasoline and diesel mileage that could
make us all safer while reducing inflation. Right now INFLATION is
going nuts due to oil prices. Food prices are going up to the moon.
Right
now the big oil companies are fighting against better mileage.
I do not enjoy saying this. But what
other conclusions are there for the TOTAL lack of conservation via
mileage?
I
included in the tail end of this article two important quoted newspaper
pieces. One explains the other cause for poor mileage as
overproduction. There are simply too many highly efficient robotic
production lines all over the world. They need to have your car lose
its engine in under 70,000 miles so you have to run over and buy
another low MPG vehicle from them. Then another and so forth. They
anticipate China as needing many cars very soon. And needing much oil
very soon to feed all those new cars. That will cause oil prices to
zoom out of control with the availability of oil converging to near zero by
2020, if my 1952 calculations were close. Engines with poor quality oil
and with bad gasoline waste a lot of gasoline. The excess fuel eats up
rings and cylinder walls. That is precisely why they want bad MPG. They
want your engine to die quickly so you will get a new car frequently
and thus keep their production lines busy and make the car executives
happy. Naturally we exclude the Toyota and Honda
autos.
Alcohol
runs very much richer than gasoline. See my
article on Dangerous Fuels. It shows that
ethyl alcohol needs a third more fuel for a pound of air than gasoline.
IOW it lacks important BTU content. So that alone is a good reason to
avoid alcohol. Plus there are a bunch of other reasons why alcohol is
not a good thing to put in your gas tank. The politicians obviously are
counting on the voters being as stupid as the car buyers. Alcohol
always reduces mileage and increases the rate of engine wear. That is
NO way to reduce emissions like they claim. IOW they lie. Thus the
persons we elected to office to look out for our welfare are looking
out for the welfare of the big companies and strictly for themselves.
Especially the Big Rats in the executive branch.
Some
years ago, I spoke with a former disgruntled API official. I was told
the API (American Petroleum Institute) no longer watches out for the
quality of commercial lubricants. They receive most of their funding from Big Oil
and are thus bound to follow their wishes. For instance the engine oils
in this country were sabotaged by cutting the additive content in half.
Then it was further cut in half again. The pretense is to protect the
catalytic converters. Oil by itself does not lubricate. The additives
do 90-percent of the lubricating, rust prevention and oxidation
resistance. If the additives were bad, why were they used in the first
place in the older oils? The reality, I was informed is to cause a new
engine to wear out quickly. In fact I know of new engines that began
knocking in just a couple of thousand miles. They soon lost oil
pressure and the camshafts went "flat". BUT the owners were told this
was normal. Honest, they were. Obviously the dealers in these cases were forced to replace
the engines once the owners brought in their attorneys. But should
things come to this?
Imagine
a 50-percent (or greater) reduction in the use of automotive fuel in
the U.S. THIS IS INDEED POSSIBLE and it could be implemented
very quickly, in less than a month by the oil companies. We CAN double
mileage. We CAN stop pollution. I have done it many times. So can most
of you. In fact we must do it and soon. The politicians will not do it.
The car companies will not do it. The fuel companies will never do it.
YOU must do it. But please write your senator and tell him/her you now
know what they are up to. They no longer enjoy that cloak of secrecy.
Cutting fuel consumption in half would certainly slow the greenhouse
effect and global warming. Obviously such a reduction would not hurt
us.
Around
1985 I started working on energy devices to produce electricity. My own
designs only. I am still working on that subject and making fantastic
progress. I will soon patent several designs. We are beginning tests on
inexpensive devices that produce up to 48 HP of electrical power from a
single unit. That is roughly 37,500 watts of cheap but clean power.
Enough for several homes or a business. We are seeking potential
licensees who already have a thriving manufacturing business and means
of distribution. Maybe if we act soon enough to reduce oil consumption
with cheap and plentiful electricity, the warming trend will subside. I
would like to have an electric car that I drive during the day and plug
into my generating system at night--and not have to pay a dime for the
car's energy. AND NOT produce a drop of pollution.
I
knew coal was not the answer for the world's lack of petroleum due to
the fact that coal burns with great difficulty and has inherently dirty
combustion. It is a solid. Plus the stuff contains mercury and puts
thousands of tons of mercury in the air across the nation in the plants
that burn coal to make electricity. There is no such thing as clean
burning coal. And most likely there never will be. I wonder if acetone
could improve the combustion of coal like it improves the combustion of
gasoline and diesel fuels. Coal was used in Germany to produce
excellent gasoline and diesel fuel. South Africa is now producing oil
and fuel from coal.
So
what have they done in Minnesota? They allowed the pollution to get
worse by seven times because the industry did not want to control the
mercury pollution in our cities. Yes, the lean air people left it up to
the polluters to make changes and the polluters eliminated all the
restrictions in recent years. This has been allowed under the same
idiot governor who wants to double the amount of alcohol in the
gasoline. The president has just reduced the clean air rules for fuels.
This is simple insanity that works in favor of the rich companies who
produce coal, electricity, cars and gasoline. It screws those of us
(and our kids) who have to breathe this filth in the air and water. We
need a huge change in government for one who cares about our future as
living beings rather that just panders to the goals of big business. We
need to throw the prostitutes and lobbyists out of government. A law
needs to be passed to prohibit politicians from taking presents from
any lobbyist. They are creating a giant mess. Period.
A snapshot of how I
think as an altruist and researcher:
To
do what is right--
To
live in enlightenment--
To
practice non-injury--
To
live for the benefit of all beings.
