Tom Ogle and his Environmental Car
In 1977 there was a big splash in the El Paso (Texas) newspapers about a young man named Tom Ogle, who had invented a device that could be installed into any American car, and which could make that car go in excess of 100 miles per gallon of gasoline. This was front page news for four days, and as suddenly as it had appeared in the newspapers, it was gone. I wanted to see what had happened to the project and made an internet search on Tom Ogle. I came up with the following link:
http://rexresearch.com/ogle/1ogle.htm
This site contains several of the articles that appeared in 1977 and thereafter, describing the strange things that happened, and also presenting the entire patent that Ogle took out, with diagrams and explanations for all to see. It was very clear that Tom Ogle, a high school dropout, was not equipped to handle the fallout that such an invention entails. The first thing that happened was that his working partner, who was privy to the information, died in a freak accident. There were attempts to discredit Ogle's invention, but one of the articles states the following:
Registered state engineer Frank Haynes Jr. conducted one inspection, and another inspection was conducted by Professor John Whitacre and Professor Garry Hawkins from the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Texas at El Paso. Both inspections indicated that the device did what Ogle represented that it did; that is, that the device allowed the old car that Ogle used in his run to Deming to get in excess of 100 miles per gallon.
Wouldn't you know it? Four years later Tom Ogle was dead, and with the wonderful imagination of the mediocre, his death was called a suicide. The following is taken from one of the obituaries:
Tom Ogle who astounded the automobile world in 1977 with his "Oglemobile", died August 19, 1981. According to an investigator his death was attributed to alcohol and an "overdose" of Darvon. There are a few HMC [High Mileage Carburetor] people who feel that although his death appears to be accidental, it was really a well orchestrated plan to play on the young mechanics's weakness for self-destruction...
Was his death accidental? David L. Williamson, President of Advanced Combustion Systems writes, "Whether directly or indirectly, Tom Ogle died as a result of working on a fuel saving system. Information forwarded to us indicated that Tom had a silent partner who preceded him in death, when a car fell off the jack stands on top of him. After his partner's untimely death, Tom boarded up his car care center and went into hiding."
I have several questions that I would like to ask the American government, the automobile manufacturers, and the oil companies. Why does not every car in the world contain this device? Why did the public of America and the world pay record prices for their gasoline in 2006, when in reality we don't even need any imported oil? Why are American cars, and indeed all the cars of the world, polluting our planet when pollution could be dropped drastically by Tom Ogle's invention? What is the impediment that is keeping Tom Ogle's invention from being utilized? And the most infuriating question of all, why have the media been silent? Why does not every household in the world know about the depth of this betrayal by the rich and powerful?
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