If someone invents a way to save on fuel do the oil companies have them killed?

Question

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcXLFDuAJNE&NR=1

Answer 1

Yeah just like the way horse buggy makers killed off the auto inventors. Lefties just don't get it, the market always wins. Anything that would save fuel would have to be patented to be valuable. Patents are public documents so even if an "evil" oil company bought up the patent after the patent expired anyone could use it. By the way Tesla died of a heart attack and his patents where upheld.

Answer 2

Your question is naive. sellers, no count if of things or hard artwork, in simple terms approximately continuously fee as lots because of the fact the marketplace will submit to. Are you going to circulate on your boss and ask for a earnings decrease? No, you elect as much as you may get. Why would desire to the oil companies (whoever it is) be any diverse? Oil expenditures will come down in keeping with furnish and demand, not because of the fact of absolutely everyone's generosity. The exception is Saudi Arabia, which has lots oil that it may exert a monopolist-like impact on the marketplace. The Saudis can set oil expenditures at in spite of they like, yet everybody else's cost is desperate by making use of furnish and demand. Do you relatively think of that anybody became much less grasping returned whilst gas expenditures have been decrease? of direction not! They have been in simple terms as grasping then as now. yet greed does not count in a aggressive marketplace. What good does a severe cost do you if everybody buys out of your opposition?

Answer 3

The Toyota Prius already saves fuel, and no one got killed for that. Entrenched technologies can be difficult to replace, simply because it costs a lot to upgrade all the gas stations. It is also hard to replace gasoline, because it comes out of the ground cheaply, has high energy and is easy to transport. A revolutionary invention is not likely, since car engines are about 40% efficient, and any improvement would cost money anyway. Oil companies are probably trying to avoid a federal government increase in fuel efficiency requirements, but I doubt they have ever found a fantastic invention and killed the inventor and got away with it.

Answer 4

The oil companies aren't expanding the refineries they own very fast because of the uncertain future. They will not care as long as we don't ban gasoline and gasoline burning cars.

Look at BP (the biggest refiner of gasoline). They are pushing for more ethanol and bio-diesel--more wind and solar power because they stand to profit even more than from oil. DuPont is pushing that agenda because they stand to make a lot of money as well.

Answer 5

No. I am sick of hearing this myth.

My logic - Look at Japan and many other countries. They have thousands and thousands of good scientists and engineers. They have been in an energy crisis for 50 years. These countries have little or no oil or coal and need power for their economy. The oil companies would have to control every inventor in every country. Not going to happen, because for every inventor, there is an investor that would love to get rich on the invention.

Answer 6

This video was actually funny to watch just because they made claim after claim and had 0 evidence to back it up other than "scientists" that no one can find. I'm pretty sure it also claimed the N-machine produced more power than it consumed (impossible).

My favorite quote was that oil companies own the newspapers. Read the USA Today. Every article makes a reference to high gas prices. If oil companies owned the papers, why would they being trying to spread propaganda against themselves?

Answer 7

People will do allot of things for money . But i have no idea if they kill them or pay them off . I have seen things that the government has that would make your head spin around but never seen any of it out on the market . I think we are suppressed allot but if everyone had all the things that are kept under wrap allot of people would misuse it and you never know what could happen if in the wrong hands .

This guys trying to get his invention out if you see him on the news accidental death then you will know for sure http://www.first-molecule.com

Answer 8

Well, something is definitely happening here...back in the mid 60's there was a man who had a turbine engine running on alcohol, (a renewable resource), inside the Houston Coliseum for weeks, putting off no adverse emissions, getting at least as good gas mileage as gasoline...I fully expected to see cars with these engines within a few years..guess what?? Never saw or heard from him/the concept again! Either someone killed him off, ( just joking), or they bought out his patent, (the more likely reason). There have been many many inventions over the years that should have/would have taken us off of this oil addiction..there is definitely something at work here...

Answer 9

This idea is so silly.

Scientists all over the world are working on alternative energy; solar, wind, biofuels. And on techniques to conserve energy.

Oil was cheap, and we didn't know about global warming, so we used it. Now it's getting scarce and expensive, and we know about global warming, so we're looking for ways not to use it.

That's all that's happening. No evil conspiracies. It will require hard work to solve this problem. There is no hidden "magic invention" that will save us. You can't just find some imaginary "bad guys" and stop them. If you believe that, you're just part of the problem.

Answer 10

There are and have been rumors of burning water.
It would be difficult if not impossible to market that invention.

Imagine the effect on the world's economy.
No oil wells operating.
No refineries.
No gas stations.
Worthless oil stocks.
Oil companies around the globe, bankrupt.
TAXES kaput. Any alternative would have to be taxed.