Gloucester VA Links and News: Gas engine

For those old enough and who might remember hearing the name, here is a picture of the Stanley Steamer racing car. This car is over 100 years old and is powered by water. Steam water that is. It's not gas and it's not electric. This is one of many models. The steam engine for cars was one of the original contenders for automobiles in the first part of the 20th century. Steam engines, electric engines and gas engines. Gas engines won as gas was cheap. What happened? Monopoly. Plain and simple.

We do not need to reinvent the wheel. We just need to improve on existing technologies. This is our old time photo of the week. Check out our old time photo of the week every Sunday right here on GVLN.

Saturday, June 29, 2013

If you look back through history, you can't help but ask, what happened to technology? Full size V8 engine cars or SUV's get a mere 8 to 21 miles per gallon of gas at their best. And that is with all of the advanced technology features and computers added into modern vehicles. Yet when we turn back the clock to the early 1940's, we see this advertising for a big, heavy steel car advertising 25 to 30 miles per gallon. No advanced computers, no advanced technologies, just plain simple good old fashioned gas engine.

Is anyone wondering about the state of education these days? This is the kind of information that everyone should be looking at and asking questions about yet no one hears anything at all about this kind of stuff. No one is looking through history and asking questions. Why do we have so much unemployment when there is so much work to be done?