If you have asked me a year ago if the fuel crisis was real I would have said absolutely NO. But with all the crooks in the world today I have change my opinion about this subject. You may ask why bother writing about this subject at all. One reason is we should be trying to save fuel by any means possible, like trying to limit the amount of times you drive your car which can be done by planning your trips. You can go to work with other employees or take busses. Another suggestion is to try using a fuel saver additive in your car. But let’s get back to the reasons I believe it is real.

            My first reason is technology:  When I was younger the energy companies promised if   the American people would allow them to build Nuclear power plants in the U.S.A that after   the return on their investment on building these plants was realized, energy in the future would be dirt cheap.( Sorry youngsters that we bought that lie). Looks to me like my electric bill keeps climbing ever year not get any cheaper.

            Also in the early sixties a friend of mine came up with this idea for saving fuel by eliminating oil changes in automobiles.  He invented an oil filter system that was accessible   from under the hood of the car instead of under the engine.  This allowed all the oil to run back down into the engine from the filter because of gravity. You would unscrew the top part of the filter housing and add a roll of toilet paper and put the top back on. After installing the new roll of toilet paper you would then add one quart of oil.  He would do this every 20 thousand miles and his oil was always clean on his dip stick. He told me dirt brakes down the oil and if you can keep it clean it would last much longer. No companies were interested in this invention because it would cut oil consumption. No one worried about saving furl or fuel savers in those days. By the way look under the hood of the new BMW’s today and see they used part of his idea.

            Also in the sixties there was a gentleman that invented a carburetor that got 100 miles to the gallon of gas on those big heavy old clunkers. He drove his car from Chicago to California on one take of gas. WOW what a fuel saver that was.  It was advertized on television and it was big news. It was short lived because a few weeks later it was reported that he had other fuel tanks on the car. I can tell you that is a lie but the American people seem to buy those kind of lies. The man at his own expense put a copy of the blue print of his carburetor in the public libraries so if anyone wanted proof for themselves they could build one. Guess no one did ? By the way the very next year after his new invention the auto companies went to fuel ejection and replaced carburetors, and if you know anything about engines and saving fuel that was not the way to go.