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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
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Subject: Re: Perpetual Motion & oil companies
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> The same thing happened in Britain, several people came up with excelent
> ideas for battery powered cars that would have a good milage rate, without
> the need for millions of car batterys to hold the charge. Their ideas were
> patented and then *bought* by the large oil companys.

So why haven't the Russians simply used the designs (patents are public
information) to build a non-petrol fleet?  In any event, just wait until
the patent runs out...

One might also note that batteries have to be charged from somewhere,
presumably power plants, so energy companies would not be seriously hurt
by battery-powered cars in the USA.  And they could make a bundle
licensing the patent.  Some Oil Company Conspiracy tales don't make
loads of sense.

Any takers for the notion that anti-nuclear power activists are really
in the pay of the oil companies?  :-)
-- 
D Gary Grady
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