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When gasoline is burned in a car engine, only about 20 percent of it goes to power the wheels, the rest produces wasted heat and is burned off as excess fuel in the catalytic converter, valves and pistons. Caine thought that seemed like a waste, so he built a device that sucks the gasoline off before it reaches the carburetor, heats it until it vaporizes, then pumps the resulting fumes into the intake manifold to power the engine. The result, he says, is a car that runs smoother and produces fewer emissions on less gas. Caine says a car that gets 20 miles from a gallon of gasoline could go 100 miles on the same gallon with his vaporizer in place.