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The Shocking Details

Murders Per Gallon

The Shocking Details

Vincent Caldoni

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8737 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Over the last few decades a number of brilliant men have come up with-potentially-dodgy ways to make a liter of petrol last longer. So why do they keep getting turning up dead?

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0:00.0

Hey there, welcome to another episode of the shocking details.

0:05.7

I'm, I'm your host, Joe Swendy, joined as always by Vincent Caldoni.

0:11.0

And we're here to talk about another interesting little, this is kind of a fun little story,

0:15.4

actually, and it does include sort of there's a bit of a murder mystery or two here.

0:19.9

A murder plot. There's a few murder plots in this one, actually.

0:22.3

But I'm going to go back to when I was a kid, when you were a kid too.

0:25.7

When I was a kid, I remember hearing stories at school on the playground, whatever,

0:29.8

about how there was this guy who invented a car that would run on water.

0:33.6

Remember that one? Did you hear what's that still circulating when you were a kid? Yeah, definitely. Cars that ran on water, cars that ran on air.

0:39.9

They just air, oxygen out of the air.

0:41.7

Oh, there was a guy who invented the car that would run on a little pill.

0:46.1

He would just fill the gas tank of water and drop a little pill in there.

0:49.7

I think I even remember seeing it like gas stations a little pill you could put in your

0:55.2

car that would make it more fuel efficient.

0:57.7

Yeah.

0:58.2

Yeah.

0:58.7

Things like that.

0:59.8

And there were also stories about, there was a story about a guy who invented a car that

1:03.6

would get like 100 miles to the gallon.

1:05.6

And then the old companies murdered him, of course.

1:08.6

Yeah.

1:08.8

And a lot of this stuff, you know, of course, that was generally the arc of the story.

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