Originally Posted by Flash!

How much would an oil company have to pay GM to buy the rights to something that would guarantee GM a near 100% market share? Why would they bother switching to EFI when they had a carburetor capable of 80mpg?

Even if they had sold the rights to it to an oil company, it wouldn't stop them from designing a similar carburetor with enough differences to not violate the patents but close enough to get huge MPG.

IMO, the whole "super carb" thing sounds like a big conspiracy theory.