ENGINEERING FIRM GETS GRIP ON GM GAS MILEAGE

WESTFIELD, MA - After ten years of research, Pendleton 
Engineering has announced they will modify V-8 Chevy 
Suburbans, Tahoes, pick-up trucks, and vans to improve 
gas mileage. Full-scale production and franchise opportunities 
will begin December 2001.

"With these modifications, the GM small block V-8 will get 
25-35 miles per gallon. The big block .502 looks like it will 
achieve in the mid-20's," states Wayne Clark, CEO of 
Pendleton Engineering.

Current standards, set by Congress in 1975, require light 
trucks to get an average of 20.7 miles per gallon. Light 
trucks were allowed to have lower mileage because at the 
time mostly farmers and businesses used them. Today, 
however, the category includes gas-guzzling SUVs, pickups 
and minivans that account for about half the vehicles sold 
in the United States.

"Most new inventions used to improve gas mileage actually 
do very little if anything at all," Mr. Clark says. "Patents for 
the ones that really work are owned by oil and car companies. 
We discovered to get the best gas mileage possible the whole 
vehicle needs to be modified, using engineering principles used 
by the automotive industry, not some new invention."

According to environmentalists, improving fuel mileage for SUVs 
and light trucks would save about 1 million barrels of oil a day.

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