Real gas mileage has little to do with the speed, size, weight, and the aerodynamics of a car or truck. Current gas mileage is based on the car's fuel injection system's design and the volume of it's cylinders. The bigger the cylinders the more noncombustible fuel can be stored during ignition for the catalytic converter to burn.
I would have thought that the tree hugging liberals would get wise to this fact if CO, CO2, NO, NO2, NO3, and hydrocarbons, not to mention the sulfides from the catalytic converter, were so dangerous. I would have thought that common everyday conservatives would get tired of being taxed per piston revolution on gasoline that they are just passing from their tank to the ground with no contributing power to momentum. To borrow a line from Jessica Rabbit pertaining to the SUVs, "they're not bad they're just designed that way". Mr. Limbaugh, as to the fact that liberals stand for all non-rational things, they are naive and just being used to drive up gasoline and fuel prices but, I think you know that... At least the bottom rung liberals.
The Current Truth About Engines
In the current combustion systems design, gasoline is mixed with MTBE which lowers its volatility and power output. MTBE is heavier then gasoline so the 14:1 ratio of air to fuel seems to be maintained. The atomized fuel is detonated up to 10 degrees before the piston is at top center. (top center is where volume if the cylinder is at it's smallest point.) This compresses the fuel and air forcing the fuel into a more liquid state. (Compressed gasses often turn to liquid.) Liquid gasoline won't burn; there is no oxygen in it to burn it. The spark plug fires at 10 degree's to top center. (This heats the fuel forcing the surface of the fuel and the air to start to burn lending energy to vaporize more of the fuel.) (note this also adds reverse torque to the engine robbing power.) After clearing top center the fuel expands and mixes with what small portion of oxygen is in the air. Expanding and burning gasses force the piston down the cylinder as the fuel continues burning past the bottom of the stroke. At this point the fuel is compressed by the piston and the expanding gasses are forced back into a liquid form to extinguish the remaining unburnt hydrocarbons. These wasted hydrocarbons are then sent to the catalytic converter to be converted to less explosive forms.
It doesn't mater if the car is big or small it consumes too much fuel. If the stoichiometric equation was really balanced there would be no need of a catalytic converters or hydrocarbons left in the exhaust. The remaining substances after running an engine would consist only of CO2 and H2O. That said let's move on to what real science says about engines.
The Real Science About Engines
First engines are air pumps not fuel burners. The proper stoichiometric equation for white gasoline is 200:1 (200 parts air to 1 part gasoline) for maximum power. Translated to horse power that would be 24,000 to 30,000 horses to the wheels (70-80 miles to the gallon) depending on the resistance of the drive chain and engine. So the speed, size, weight, and the aerodynamics of a vehicle mean nothing to fuel economy. (Conventional muscle car's have between 200-450 horses to the wheels and 8-15 miles to the gallon.)
From where cometh the horsepower? Well let's inject premixed white gasoline vapor with air at a ratio of 500:1 so we don't break anything. It is detonated at 3 degrees past top center. Even compressed for better atomic contact the vaporized premixed fuel and air remains in a gaseous form. A 6 millisecond pop burns all of the mixture and smacks the piston to the bottom of the cylinder. Since heat is absorbed in the developing vacuum the cooled cylinder at the end of the down stroke creates a small vacuum that starts that piston back up the other side of the stroke. There is no fuel attempting to expand against the returning piston
The best parts, very little fuel was used (good for conservatives). The fuel that was used was all converted to CO2 and H2O (good for tree hugging liberals). Now, who is this bad for? Well... THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and global bankers. Gas taxes dry up. The people are unencumbered by expensive travel. Shipping prices drop like rain. Less reason to raise minimum wage. Agenda 21 policies get tossed in the wind of our speeding transportation. Geo-engineers will have to spray more toxic crap in the air to compensate for the decrease in airborne hydrocarbons.
A air fuel ratio of 500:1 is about 250 to 300 miles per gallon at 1,200 to 3,200 horse power at the wheels. Without all the smog pumps, catalytic converters, and anti-population gear, the car is lighter to boot.
More Real Science
Crude oil can be manufactured in the backyard in a process called "Thermal Depolymerization" with a pressure cooker. Gasoline is a renewable resource. It can be made from table scraps and plastic garbage.
If these sociopathic politicrats and politicans don't get their banking brought back in country and reinstate the Constitution of the United States (including the original 13th Amendment) they may be surprised at the technology the common people possess.
There is no reason an SUV should get less then 220 miles per gallon and have 4 time the horsepower they currently have running gasoline all the time contributing to healthy plants. "Real Science"
The government energy labs like to give science shows in the community often around here. They attempt to encourage kids to take science classes. In the last demonstration I attended the professor had three balloons full of gasses. The first was hydrogen. The second was methane. The last was a 1/4th mixture of methane and 3/4ths air. Each balloon was tied to a string and suspended according to its buoyancy. Hydrogen floats. Methane is heavier. As the demonstration progressed a blow torch was used to detonate the balloons. The hydrogen balloon popped with attitude. The methane balloon popped louder with a fire ball. The premixed methane (after being warned to put our fingers in our ears and remove the babies) detonated with little visible fire but it rattled all the windows in the warehouse and shook the concrete floor on which we were standing.
Oh, to get down to the horsepower of conventional muscle cars using white gasoline vapor the ratio is 1,000 to 1 (1,000 parts air to 1 part gasoline). So if 0.0001 parts gas is running the car what is the other 99.9999% percent of the gas doing? Well, maybe... Some of the gas was replaced by additives? What's left is used to heat up the engine? Pollute the engine oil? Add counter torque? AND... Dump toxic gasses and unburned hydrocarbon into the air? This might be done to guarantee a steady and constant money stream for the government. Even now the gas price is probably being driven up to cover the lack of people working (decrease in demand) while maintaining governmental taxes. Our gasoline exports kind of give this impression. But I know I'm just being cynical.
