My hunch is that if some gadget is invented that does what this thing is said to do, it won't be Popular Mechanics that breaks the news.* But maybe I'm still pissed off at them for not delivering on the flying cars and cities under the sea they promised to me when I was a kid. ===== * Please don't use this as opening to spin off a vast bandwidth-wasting No Vanagon Content thread about how conspiracies are keeping such devices off the market. Jim Arnott had to squelch one of those earlier this year and I bet he'll do it again. -- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano KG6RCR
On 2/13/2008 6:59 AM Kenneth Wilford wrote: > Of course this has Vanagon content because all of us want to get better > fuel mileage so that we can justify keeping our beasts on the road. I > saw an ad in Popular Mechanics for a device that is supposed to > revolutionize fuel saving ... |
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