It’s been a long time coming, but the FTC is finally putting a stop to the kind of deceptive advertising you see above. For years these scammers, which claim their electrolysis kits will double your gas mileage and “turn any car into a hybrid” have spammed blog comments and lied to unsuspecting consumers.
While there have been a few people who bought into the (false) hype over the years, I think the FTC gets to the bottom of it very well:
However, in papers filed with the court, the FTC states that these and other claims defy well-established physical principles and contain “gross errors and misrepresentations of fact.” According to an expert hired by the FTC, the device does not even meet the scientific definition of a “fuel cell,” and several of the processes touted by the companies either are impossible or would lead to a net loss of energy. The promoters “are marketing a product that cannot exist and function as claimed,” the FTC stated in the court papers.
Though the case has just been opened and there is no verdict, the defendent is clearly guilty here, so I fully expect the FTC to drop the banhammer on these sorts of advertisements. Hopefully now they will stop showing up faster than we can ban them on Google Adsense and we can all move on past some of the high gas price-inspired insanity.
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I actually speak heavily against this particular manufacturer at my web site. But even the strongest educated nay-sayers opposing gas saver products such as water for gas do not lay claim that this is a futile gas saving method. That`s because hydrogen added to gas has been proven to increase MPG while reducing harmful emissions. I`m not talking as one who is brainwashed but I have applied this technique and bare witness of the facts. These guys that are in court belong there. I oppose their marketing bull at my web site. They belong there but the technology is solid.
They better be careful with that “doesn’t meet the definition of a fuel cell”.Those words have several different meanings. Are they aware that NASCAR and most othe racing sanctions use fuel cells in their cars instead of fuel tanks?
The FTC has lost this case due to very sloppy prosecution.
The DOT has tested an on board hydrolysis unit and while they did not show a big change they did get a 4% increase in mileage and 7% recduction in exhaust emissions on a diesel bus engine so there may be some benefit to a properly designed unit.
http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/facts-research/research-technology/report/Guidelines-H2-Fuel-in-CMVs-Nov2007.pdf
Wow, that’s unfortunate, thanks for the link.