WHY DO WE USE SO MUCH OIL?

I just this morning got to thinking about Paul Pantone, you have probably never heard of this man but I want to tell you what I know about him.
A few years ago I was in Salt Lake City delivering a load to the Fred Meyer stores and when I got finished I went to visit with Paul at his shop. I had heard about Paul and wanted to find out what he was about. I would like to show you a little about him in the video, just - click here for the video.

I personally saw this motor running at his shop where he had 8 or 10 guys there teaching them how to build his system, they were there for a 5 day class that he offered. I have no doubt his system works, I saw it work, that glass jar that your will see on the video had coffee, water, pop, etc in it and only 20% gas. That little engine ran like a top.

That was a fascinating afternoon and when I came home my 13 or 14 year old grandson A.J. was here for the weekend and I brought up the web site which is no more, about this system and when A.J. saw how it worked he said "that is a plasma generator". I didn't know what a plasma generator is and he said that is how lightning is made.

The basic plans for a geet system can be seen here, click here to see them.
There is a lot of interesting stuff on this site if you are interested in things like this.

I had not heard about Paul for a long time and so today I searched on the web and find that in 2005 he was put in the mental hospital in Utah. I just wonder why or who would want to put away a man that has invented something that could end the need for so much oil and foreign oil at that along with reducing pollution many times over. Paul told me that he was offered 33 billion dollars for this invention by OPEC. He told them it was not for sale, that this one is for the people. I know from my dealings in the automotive business and some of the people I have had contact with over the years that the oil industry does not want this kind of thing on the market. Look at their obscene profits right now!

So, back to the problem of using more oil than we need to.

I walked by a car yesterday and it had holes broken in the side of the door and the fender. I guess that plastic material was about 3-4 mm thick, now I worked as an auto mechanic for much of my life and knew they used some plastic on the exterior but was not aware of the extent of it on the newer cars. That stuff is made from oil! Go to your local dump or landfill or what ever you have where you live and see all the plastic bags, they are made from oil. Look as you drive, how much plastic junk do you see?
Almost everything we have is made from plastic materials, our vehicles used to be made with steel, now it is plastic inside and out. I just looked around my desk and most things I see are either plastic or encased in plastic.

I really wonder what percentage of our oil usage goes to things other than fuel.

One man I met with in about 1984 had a Ford 1 ton flatbed truck with a 390 V8 that was tested at over 90 M.P.G. and documented by the federal government, I cannot remember which department but I think Department of Energy. He told me the only way he could stay alive was to make every thing he did public, no secrets!

In '78 or '79 I went to the LA County fair to work a booth. We sold oil filters that we can get many miles without changing the oil.
While there, a fellow came by looking for a booth where he could set up his display which was a carburetor that he claimed would get a lot better effiency from a car. He said he would guarantee a minimum that I can't remember but was substantial. I think he said he could get up to 60 MPG from a Dodge V8. He was planning on having it on the market in a few months but I never saw it again. Keep your eyes open though maybe you will see it, it was built like a four barrel but had one big throat in the center that was funnel shaped and the center piece was an exact fit that raised up and down which made the throttle. In other word it was a variable venturi. It had a float bowl on opposite sides from I think a Carter carb and had jets that sprayed fuel into this venturi.

Several years later I talked with someone that thought they had seen one of these carbs in a bunch of junk where he worked in a carnival or something. Who know where one might turn up. I doubt there were more that 3 or 4 made but I might be wrong.

The oil filters that we were selling there at the fair was an extend life filter that filtered down to 2 microns. This will take most of the bad stuff out of the oil where the original 'full flow' filter you get from the factory will only take out the sand and larger chunks of metal. The add on filter is a partial flow and only filters a small amount of oil at a time. You tap into the high presure oil system and pull of a small stream of oil to the filter and return it to the sump. You have to have the original full flow filter to protect the engine but need the finer filtration to clean up the oil.

I put one of these filters on a customers V8 Mercedes and put synthetic oil in it. Several years later she came in one day and asked if it was time to change the oil. I had been working on that car for her all that time and the inside of the engine was perfectly clean but I looked to see when the oil and filter was changed. I can't remember now but it was several years and didn't appear to need it but I did change the oil and filters. I think that engine would have gone many more miles without needing serviced.

When I was a kid growing we had an acquaintance in our church that had invented an oil refinery that fastened to your engine and you never had to change oil. I remember seeing his personal car many times over the years and each time we looked at the engine oil and it always looked like new. The oil companies somehow made him agree to only make what he could market himself. A fellow farmer in the area had one on his John Deere diesel tractor and really liked it. The system was simple, it used the exhaust as a heater to heat the oil and boil off the condensate and unburned fuel. It had a chamber in it where you put old wool socks and other cloth in and it squeezed these down into a tightly compacted filter to take out the particulate matter. Pretty simple and cost nothing to operate.

I have used toilet paper filters myself and they will extend the life of motor oil for a long time. Hm, that makes me think. I have two brand new toilet paper filters in the shop that I have never used and why don't I install them on my vehicles. I had forgot about buying them at a yard sale some time back. I better get to work I guess.