Re: Historic gasoline prices, 1965-1978

In article <11geft7tj0cou7c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "George Willer" <gwill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Doug,
>
>We are in agreement about the impossibility to extract more energy from fuel
>than it contains,

Actually, it's Dave Hinz who's been talking about that, not me... but I agree
completely.

> but engine choices aren't restricted to the simple 4 or 2 strokes.

I didn't say that they were. I said that a "two cycle four stroke" engine is
nonsense, an inherent contradiction in terms. It's either two, or four. Can't
be both. (Or, as you note, it might be neither. But it isn't both.)

--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.
.

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