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Ok this officially SUCKS, was finally in the 98 percentile to, and what happened to the notice? I didn't see one.
In April, the U.S. Secretary of Transportation proposed new CAFE (corporate average fuel economy) standards that would increase the average efficiency of passenger cars and light trucks by 4.5 percent per year from 2011 to 2015. A lot of people wondered why the federal government wasn't aiming higher.
Cyback of Prexus I have also looked into a water assist for my vehical, and unlike the mechanic in GettingReals reply (I have been an aircraft mechanic for 30 years) it is not as simple as putting water in your tank which would just serve to contaminate your system. What it is is a generator that works off of your alternator to break water into it's two parts, namely hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen gas is then ported to the air intake of you engine to mix with fuel vapor which causes a more complete combustion of the fuel, this in turn gives you more power and burns the fuel more efficently giving you more miles per gallon. A local news channel here in Florida took a new dodge suv, ran it on a dynomometer and found that with new plugs tires etc, the vehicle got 9.6 miles per gallon, with the unit in place it got 34 mpg, not bad for putting water in your tank, oh, and the water must be distilled or pure for it to work. As for extracting hydrogen from water I know the mechanics of it are very workable, as for gettingreals mechanic I think I would look for a new one.
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