GEET thread

[CrazyEwok]

You do all know who is to blame for the lack of efficientcy in engines don't you? It is us the consumer.
Until rescently there has been no real market for efficient cars. Its been all about the KW. How much power we can get out of an engine. You do know that a supercharger or turbo system can be tuned to a car to get a 25% efficientcy upgrade? Or it can be tuned to hammer out about 30% more power.
Up until rescent times there has been no push for efficient engines. There has been no global need. Its been all about how fast you can go and how loud your engine is. And you know what, once the GFC is been and gone and its only a memory of when times were tuff people will go back to paying the extra 10k for a car that has an extra 50kw under the hood rather than get an extra 10miles out of a tank.
The SMALL efficientcy gains that we have seen are things that must happen for the engine to produce the extra power. Its no conspiracy. Yes the car and petrol companies have bought out huge amounts of patents to technology to improve the fuel economy of engines. We ain't seeing them till there is massive pushes in that direction. In other words when the outlay for the research into these technologies can guarentee proffit (both long and short term) why would any company bother? To save the planet? pffft companies have "token" efforts to do this. In other words if they think that by not doing something they may loose said proffit then something needs to be done.
If people were willing to spend as much money on making their car more efficient as they were on having their stero system upgraded then there would be some serious changes to what is commercially available and what is industry standards.
It will take more than a few hundred, more than a few thousand, people to accomplish this. There needs to be a whole new market for this.
Did you know that adding some accetone (there is a limit to how much to add)  to your fuel tank can increase your mileage by almost 7% or more. How many people do you know who do this? Not many, if any. Accetone is how much? i think i can get about a litre for about 10 bucks (don't buy the pretty coloured ones). The amount needed also becomes less the longer you use it to maintain the same efficientcy.
Now if massive amounts of people started to do that bulk accetone would become cheap and then they would say "why is there all of a sudden so much accetone being sold?" this would create a small new market. Then as people continually invest in this market it grows.
Fuel efficientcy is not a new idea, the need and want is though, and it is also a cyclic market. When people have no money they don't want to spend a red cent more then they have to on anything and winge about everything. Then when they have money it is all good and filling the tank for 100 bucks isn't a problem.