Blake Schwendiman's Blog and Blook

I just wonder how much more the American people can/will tolerate with the increased prices? I don't know what the breaking point will be but I'm sure for some people it's already been reached. I worry what it would be like to not be able to afford the prices even AFTER cutting back other things to compensate. Unfortunately it seems to usually take really extreme circumstances to bring about action so I'll be equally curious on this storm front.

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This is something that I have followed for a while now. Very interesting...

From their site:
"DRIVE YOUR CAR ON 100% USED VEGETABLE OIL!

Greasecar vegetable Fuel Systems allow mechanically injected diesel vehicles to run on straight, filtered vegetable oil. Vegetable oil as fuel is a cleaner, safer and less expensive alternative to petroleum based fuel. It can be locally produced, even grown in your own back yard!"

I recently started selling Bio Performance "gas pills" that increase gas mileage. Most people see a 10-25% improvement in their gas mileage. You can see the results from my first tank here:

http://natetanner.blogspot.com/2006/04/gas-pills-that-give-you-better-gas.html

Well, one might argue that gas prices in other countrys, Germany for example, have been above 6 dollars a gallon for a long long time. However, when it comes to public transportation the US are far behind countries in Europe. In Florida I can forget about taking the bus to school or work. Right now, being single and a student, I am seriously considering getting a motorcycle. Otherwise I'd have a big problem and could not afford *going to work*. How ridiculous is that. Life kind of comes to a standstill once gas prices reach a certain level. As long as our political leaders are heavily involved in the oil business though, I don't think alternate ways of powering our cars will be promoted as much as they could be. Oh well...

I'm not sure this is on topic here. (Thank You)

Why is it, that people think : that oil is needed to run a combustible engine.

Most Likely - because the American people, have been indoctrinated to think this way.

Why is it : that the formula for gasoline, has always been considered an : Industrial Secret.

Why is it : A government agency doing an investigation. Into the possible illegal activities of the oil industry.
Concluded the investigation saying : " They had found nothing wrong."

What they didn't say was : " Since the formula for gasoline is an : Industrial Secret.
They could not make a competent, intense and complete investigation.
Therefore : They could not come to a conclusion."

That government investigation committee : Did nothing more - than to echo.
What they had been instructed, to say.

(Telephone conversation with an oil executive - 2003)

Question : Why are oil prices so high?
Answer : I don't know. We don't set, the price of our oil.
An organization in Texas, tells us the price, we will charge for our oil.
If we don't charge the price we are told to.
The big guys, will put us out of business.

Question : What is the cost, to refine oil?
Answer : The cost is very minimal.

Question : How much does it cost, to pump oil, out of the ground ?
Answer : Oil is not pumped, out of the ground. They use steam, to force the oil up, out of the ground.

Question : I don't understand, what do you mean - " force the oil up, out of the ground?"
Answer : Steam is forced - into the ground. The steam - being as hot as it is. Turns that oil sludge, into a thin liquid.
Because the steam, is heavier than the liquid oil. It forces the oil up out of the ground.

Have you ever seen a news clip. Where a valve is opened and water runs out?
That's - the steam condensed back into water.

Question : Then what is the real cost, of getting oil, out of the ground.
Answer : The cost is next to nothing. Think of ocean oil riggs - plenty of pressure - plenty of water - plenty of natural gas.
Free for the taking - The cost is next to nothing.

Question : On the news media. Why do we always see, these Texas oil riggs pumping oil?
Answer : That's just propaganda. Given to the news media. In order to be feed, to the American people.
This makes people think, that there is a high cost, to get oil of the ground.
The real cost is next to nothing.

Question : Is there really an oil shortage?
Answer : There is no oil shortage or crises. They got more oil, than they know - what do with.
The only oil shortage occurs - is - when they turn off the valves.
As far as I'm concerned : There never - has been a oil shortage.
There never will be - an oil shortage.

Question : How much should a gallon - of gasoline cost ?
Answer : Silence .......... (The telephone conversation now turns, to a different subject matter)

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In 1917, A man named : John Andrews approached the US Navy with his claim that he could convert fresh or salt water into a fuel with the same power as gasoline. The chemical costs were about 2 cents/gallon.

Andrews was allowed to demonstrate his invention at the Brooklyn N avy Yard, where a motor boat was fitted with a dynamometer for the test. Commander Earl P. Jessup, who was Captain of the yard, said:

"We gave Andrews a bucket of water drawn from the Navy Yard [fresh water] hydrant by one of the yard attaches. He got into his car with a gallon can which we inspected and found to be empty and a little satchel he carried with him. In about a minute he handed out the filled can which I personally carried to the open fuel tank. While pouring the liquid into the tank, Andrews held a lighted cigarette close to the liquid, which did not ignite. That showed it was not gaseous or inflammable at that part of the demonstration, which to me was most important. The engine caught just as quickly as it would have done with gasoline, and after a moment’s adjustment of the carburator, it settled down to its work, developing 75% of its rated horsepower, a remarkable showing with any fuel with so slight a readjustment of the carburator".

In a second test, Andrews was put in an empty room with no possible way to get rid of the bucket of salt water with which he had been supplied, except to empty it into his one-gallon gas can. Commander Jessup said:

"In a minute he emerged with the can filled, and the engine again used it up, no difference being noted between the salt water and fresh. Besides myself, Rear Admiral G.E. Burd, the Industrial Manager of the yard, was present and with the precautions we had taken --- our own Navy engine, tank and carburator and our own men supplying the water --- there was no possibility of deception.

"From a military viewpoint, it is almost impossible to visual"ze that such an invention means. It is so important that we have hurried an officer to Washington to make a report to the navy Department. It is obvious that Andrews has discovered a combination of chemicals which breaks down water to a form that is inert until mechanically vaporized by the carburator, when the spark causes it to burn as gasoline burns".

Walter Meriwether, the Navy editor of the New York World, met with Andrews at his home in McKeesport, PA. Andrews was extremely paranoid. He said:

"Somebody poisoned my watchdog last week. The only reason my dog was poisoned was so somebody could get at me more easily. I am being followed everywhere, day and night. A lot of people know about my invention --- how it will put every oil company in the world out of business. Two cents a gallon for a substitute as good as the best they can refine? I tell you, my life is not worth that [snapping his fingers]! Think of what my invention means to nations at war".

Meriwether offered to arrange for a thorough test of his invention with the Navy Department in Washington DC, and Andrews accepted his help. Meriwether managed to arouse the interest of Secretary Josephus Daniels, who said:

"Tell the man to come on at once; I will have a submarine and airplane detailed and ready for him on his arrival".

Meriwether telegraphed Andrews, but received no reply. He returned to McKeesport, but Andrews could not be found. Meriwether then accompanied the police to Andrews’ home, where they found signs of a violent struggle in the ransacked house. No trace was found of Andrews.

But Andrews had not been kidnapped or murdered; he had simply reported back to his seaman’s post in the Canadian Navy. He returned to the USA in the 1930s. In 1942, a reporter named James Kilgallen found Andrews living on a farm near Library, Pennsylvania. Andrews said that he had forgotten the formula.

Another version of the Andrews mystery states that he was found murdered in his home in 1937, and all of his notes and supply of green powder were missing. His sister allegedly took the notes and fled to Scotland, where she too was murdered only a year later. The eminent journalist Tom Valentine, who has written numerous articles about suppressed technologies, once received a phone call from a man who claimed to be John Andrews, Jr. His innuendos could not be proven, of course:

"My aunt was killed and then some of my relatives suddenly got rich and I believe the process for making the powder is known and the people who know are the Phillips Petroleum Company".

The next person to demonstrate the conversion of water to fuel was Guido Franch, a former coal miner who tried for nearly 50 years to find financiers for his product. He too used a green powder to turn water into 105-octane fuel. He called it "Mota", which is atom spelled backwards.

Franch demonstrated Mota hundreds of times, but never produced it commercially. He did, however, sell about 3000% of his rights to interested investors. In 1973, Franch was subpoenaed to appear in Chicago’s Federal Circuit Court "with any records relating to the purchase or the proposed purchase of any fuel, fuel powder, or fuel formula in your possession". He demonstrated his Mota transmutation in the presence of judges William Bauer and Philip Romiti, who believed what they saw, and Franch was acquitted of charges of fraud.

The fuel is produced with one pound of the reagent in 50 gallons of water. It burns clean and leaves no residue. In one demonstration with a lawnmower, it ran for about 15 minutes on a small amount of Mota-treated water. An equal amount of gasoline lasted only 3 minutes. Mota fuel is very sensitive to sunlight, which will turn it back to water with a white powder residue.

Gary Bolz, a consultant on carburetion and fuel engineering, was able to test Mota with the help of chemists at Michigan State University and Havoline Chemical Laboratories. Bolz stated:

"The granules are dark olive green. As they enter water, they dissolve in a string of green, which begins to spread fiber-like throughout the water. As the water begins to react, there is a swirling effect. Reaction is complete in a few minutes. If the crystals are mixed in 1:1 ratio with water, the resulting fluid is highly explosive and can be detonated by a small shock. But it isn’t shock-sensitive when mixed at a normal ratio of one ounce of powder per half gallon of water. The finished fuel is lighter than water".

Franch claimed that the manufacture of Mota was taught to him and others in 1925 by a German scientist named Alexander Kraft, who died in 1941.

Franch received about $100,000 from small investors over a period of 40 years. He used that money to live on, and never manufactured any Mota. He received several serious offers from major investors, but his financial demands were unreasonable and nothing practical ever came of his demonstrations and negotiations.

It appears that we are obliged to continue burning gasoline until some genius rediscovers the secret of extracting green crystals from coal.