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The Great Gasoline Hoax: Or Was It? |
| Section: LIFE / CONSUMER |
| Author: Richard Bauman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2007 |
| Size: 1,996 Words, 12,186 Characters |
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When gasoline rocketed to three dollars and more a gallon some months ago, most of us wished there were a way to run our cars and trucks on something as cheap and plentiful as, say, water.
Louis Enricht had the same vision, and he promised motorists they would be able to do just that because he had invented a way to turn ordinary water into the equivalent of gasoline. Imagine filling your car's gas tank with water, adding a pint or so of special chemicals and then driving off. That was the image he concocted for motorists. Incidentally, the total cost for water and chemicals would be only a couple of cents per gallon. Would you like that? What's not to like?
Ninety years have passed since he made his water-in-to-gasoline claim and controversy still lingers over whether or not he real...
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...lized? Would it be possible to concoct a fuel from water and some chemicals?
Considering the ever-rising price of gasoline, if the corrosiveness of Enricht's synthetic fuel could be counteracted and the retail cost held to about half the cost of gasoline, few would complain. On the other hand, no matter how cheap a fuel might be, if it destroys the family car's engine, it's hardly economical.
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