If you think forcing you to use ethanol gas is bad, try getting something patented that saves gas and sell it for a reasonable price: laws force you to sell at a price that is not lower than the companies you would "harm" with your "exceptionally low" price. I know. I, like others, decided not to patent my hydrogen generator because I would be forced to sell it at an ungodly price that, in essence, protects the oil companies. Same thing happened to those few people who went around picking up spent engine oil and re-refining it, selling it for a nickel a quart. Oil companies didn't want the competition, so forced them, via promulgated law, to get a $5,000 license just to pick up and clean impurities out of oil from oil changes that they were selling for a nickel a quart. It effectively raised the price of re-refined oil to what the oil companies were charging for virgin oil. Or, took away a family man's livelihood. Automotive companies and the oil industry basically did the same to Tucker. His car was far superior and advanced over the "Big Four," at that time - GM, Chrysler, Studebaker, and Ford. He had an engine with forced lubrication (as opposed to splash) that could rev higher, and hence produced more power and could go well over 70mph; Detroit iron at the time could only get up to around 40mph.
Tucker was poised to become the largest manufacturer of automobiles, had not the agencies been in place already, to protect his competitors from innovators the likes of that man; furthermore, Volkswagen would never have become what it did in this country. His car was far superior to the Beetle. I worked on early and late model Beetles and I know. Porsche may not have become the prestigious company it is, either. If Honda had started in the States, making his bikes or his cars, same thing would have happened to him. Franklin D. signed the laws that banned real competition and the ability to make a profit from one's efforts. Alcoa Aluminum was one of the victims (can't remember exactly, but the process they developed made making aluminum inexpensive, but they still had to charge a higher price - "unfair competition"); so was Consolidated Aircraft. And others... ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, October 15, 2010 12:36:35 PM Subject: Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Slightly OT... Fuel yes.... Havent thought about it like that... -----Original Message----- Date: Friday, October 15, 2010 9:01:44 am To: [email protected] From: "Kyle Munz" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Slightly OT... Fuel Whether ethanol is any good or not isn't the point for me. The fact that some suit in DC decided that I have to have it, and is using MY MONEY to subsidize it, then sell it right back to me again at the pump is why I don't like it. -Kyle On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Patrick <[email protected]> wrote: > Ya, I tried running ethanol in my runabout for a little > while.....didn't like it all. That being said, the runabout is from > 1968.....designed for pre-ethanol gas. I'm not saying ethanol is > bad. It is good for those engines it is designed for, but there is a > reason that Marina's have strait gas and the FAA forbids it's use in > airplanes. It certainly isn't the end all and has it's faults. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nighthawk_lovers+unsubscr...@goo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en.
