Fuel pills, ionizers, hydrogen boosters and other rip offs..

[WhiteD3]

Here's a short podcast on the subject. If you are a believer or an investor looking for that "big" winner", do not listen to this


Ockham's Razor - 30 August 2009 - Fuel saving follies

[F4Phantom]

I put in a fitch fuel saver one time. It did give me exactly 7% better economy, and I took it off for a month and continued documenting economy, then I put it back on and the 7% came and went with the fitch. It cost over $400. Anyway I sold the car and didnt remove it, I wish I had now because the new owner would not have known. The good news is you can easily get 7% by keeping your engine tuned properly, tyres hard and driving with lighter shoes.

As for the fuel saving devices in general I think its a load of tripe and I am very skeptical.

[Scallops]

Heya Mark - what is that on your Avitar? Do you have mutant giant bats over your way?

[WhiteD3]

It's actually a snatch strap but I'll admit it look like road kill or what not

[JDNSW]

I am a geophysicist, and it may come as a surprise that this sort of thing (similar to fuel savers etc) is not uncommon in the supposedly scientific area of exploration. In fact so common that the very first issue of the first specialist journal in geophysics ("Geophysics") in 1935 carried an article on how to recognise such scams. How much things (didn't) change is shown by the fact that the article was reprinted unchanged fifty years later.

I don't have it in front of me but from memory the article points out that it is easy to recognise such scams. A key feature is that their method of operation is a trade secret, and there is no published independent testing, and there will be testimonials by ordinary users, and often a story about how the invention has been suppressed.

Sound familiar?

John