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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> , but hearing stories like 
> that, of inventions or innovations that never make it to everyday life, 
> makes me think that they are true,

You've side stepped the point.  If X quantity of gasoline chemically contains 
Y joules of energy, and it takes Y joules of energy to move a car 100 feet, 
do you really think there is a device that suddenly makes the car lighter or 
puts more chemical energy into the gasoline?

You know that it takes one calorie to raise the temp of 1 cc of water one 
degree C.  What if someone said they'd invented a gas burner whereby all of 
that 
is out the window and you could now raise the temp of twenty litres of water 
one degree using only one calorie of energy ... the super efficient gas 
burner!

Did the laws of physics change?

To move a vehicle of a certain weight takes a certain amount of energy - no 
matter the source.  Gasoline has a finite and known amount of energy.  You 
don't have to be a mechanic to understand this.

But do you see then how that under the sway of our cornucopian mind set we 
put all reason and critique aside?