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Originally Posted by Undertoad
My lawnmower's engine is like 7HP, so if I hook it up to an axle, and drive on a flat road, I can eventually do 50? Cooool
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Who said that? I did not write that. Your 7 HP engine can maintain most any car at 50 MPH. Major difference.
How did engineers in the 1950s or 60s drive a 100 MPG car? Put a lawn mower sized engine in it. Nothing new. Then many myth purveyors blamed oil companies for subverting technology rather than learn facts - how 100 MPG was done
Why do freight trains move so much tonnage so many hundred miles on only one gallon of diesel fuel? Trains even in the 1930s were using hybrid technology. Nothing new. But using it in cars 75 years later requires innovation. Innovation is what Clinton promoted in 1994. Therefore wackos know is must be a lie and must be subverted only because Clinton promoted it. Their political agenda tells them what to believe. Also explains so many who knew Saddam had WMDs and that global warming does not exist. Science be damned.
How did a 1960s car get 100 MPG? It only needs a lawn mower engine to maintain 50 MPH - assuming proper application to the loads.
Those who don't innovate simply install a 200 HP engine because energy is so ridiculously cheap - and innovation is hard.