RE: Interesting

That's what bothers me every time I hear people make that accusation about gas companies and car companies being in collusion to make gas guzzlers. Your second paragraph hit it on the head. US auto manufacturers got pummelled on quality and fuel economy in the 70s and 80s, and we're back to the future with the same problem with fuel economy again. People want to blame the auto manufacturers, but why on Earth would they make gas guzzlers if people weren't buying them, and why would they keep trying to sell gas guzzlers if they were in peril of being undermined by someone with the same features and power with better fuel economy? They tried "waving the flag" in the past, and learned the hard way that they had to change to survive. I believe that GM's sins are basically those of a slow, lethargic bureaucracy, not a vicious conspiracy to burn up the rain forest, make people buy oil and kill small puppies.

I hate to be cynical about this engine, but do we really have any proof that this thing is as great as the inventor claims?

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