I think the 200mpg carb story is just some B.S. cooked up by some scam artist looking to sell the bogus plans or some conspiracy theory book.
Simular to the "$50 BMW's at goverment auctions!" books they sell.. yes, i've seen BMW's sell at goverment auction for $10, but they're usually 30 years old, been rolled three times, and had any usable parts picked off them before the sale.
I've never claimed these "miracle carbs" got 200mpg.. but lets consider the facts:
1. Oil Companies have spent millions buying up fuel delivery system patents only to mothball them.
2. a U.S. Patent provides exclusive rights to make, use, import, sell and offer for sale the invention for up to 20 years to the patent holder.
Why would you buy a patent for a device you're just going to shelve?
So lets say Jo Bob came up with a carb 20 years ago that would give you 10 more miles per gallon.. oil company swoops in and buys that patent, nobody can build it for 20 years.. in that 20 years the natural SLOW evolution of the auto mfg's reach that level of efficiency.
The oil company might have paid a few million for that patent to keep it off the market, but they make up for it with billions of dollars in sold fuel over those 20 years.
Big buisnesses only do things when they have a financial incentive to do them, or they're forced to do it by state or federal law.
What other financial incentive would an oil company have for buying a patent to a fuel delivery system if all they do is put it in a crate in a warehouse?
