Well, this argument looks quite rational but can only considered as
common sense which cannot be considered as a proof.
maybe because it is simple and it does not involve much R+D.
In health care, my friends have seen the same, the doctors are only
pushed by pharmaceutical companies backed by insurance companies (in
the USA where they rule) and NHS bodies (where people believe in
public services) to apply very complex medecine that needed ages of
work to produce then to solve the problems simply like you can do
often it.

To justify an overpiced option, you have to explain that it required
years of development.

But to say that is quite irrational although I have a few friends how
can prove it in the health care world.

For example, if solar panels were so good, why is it that thay do not
cover the whole of Italy or the south of the USA ?
It is funny because you see them everywhere in Turkey and theydo run
very well.

Or another here, the French know how to make a smooth car hold the
road very well with classical suspensions, why is it that the big
three never could do it on a cheap and simple car where Renault or
Peugeot can ?

Luc Rolland

On Aug 28, 1:00*pm, (Jon B) wrote:
> Steve Daniels > wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:47:17 -0700 (PDT), against all advice,
> > something compelled laurentien >, to say:
>
> > > * * I am a engineering researcher and I can tell you that there are a lot
> > > * * of ideas that are good but for some reasons were never used or each
> > > * * time you talk about them, there is huge lot of uneducated sceptics
> > > * * that make fun of you.
>
> > When I was but a lad, back in 1970 or so, I would spend hours
> > pouring over the J.C. Whitney catalogue, my longing gaze drifting
> > over the tools, the parts, the accessories. *One of the things
> > you could get from them was a magnet that clamped around the fuel
> > line, and it was supposed to do all the things you are claiming.
>
> > It sounded like bull**** to me then, and it sounds like bull****
> > to me now. *I remember the first gas crisis (OPEC? *What's an
> > OPEC?) and sitting in line to pick up the ten gallons we were
> > allowed. *The auto manufactures, caught flat footed, started
> > building the most ugly cars ever turned loose upon the streets of
> > this fair land. *They were smaller, however, and got better
> > mileage in an effort to compete with Datsun and Toyota.
>
> > One would suspect that if a magnet would have helped with that,
> > magnets would have been installed.
>
> > I suspect your performance improvements exist largely in your
> > mind.
>
> Yep, can't quite see how a magnet near the fuel tank, even if it does
> have an effect on the (non magnetic) fuel, by the time it's got to the
> engine, any effect must surely be lost. Even stranger that it would also
> work just as well on both petrol & diesel fuels.
>
> As others have said major manufacturers spend millions looking into ways
> to reduce fuel economy, especially at these times, if it worked, it'd be
> standard, or at worst they'd offer it as an over priced option. They
> don't. They've never been scientifically proven, but have been
> scientficially disproven many times. It's just a few people saying well
> my car feels faster, and I reckon I'm getting 2mpg more. Probably
> because they push the pedal harder up the hills, and between time hold
> back off the gas trying to prove it, and therefore increasing fuel
> economy anyway.
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