A note to Roxanne(February 25, 2009): The retail price we pay for gasoline is made up of a number of factors, with one of them being the price of crude oil. You cannot expect a direct linear link in those two prices.
I examined another gas saver in Calgary several years back. The promoter claimed that this device saves fuel by unclogging the carb or injectors. It routed the fuel inlet line through a heater hose, the idea being that warm fuel burns cleaner. What a joke and a half! This device, by its design, was an engine killer mixing fuel and coolant.
This was a great story but one line made my blood boil. It was the statement about us being able to buy "dirt cheap gas". We are currently paying at least double what we should be for gas or diesel. Why not do a story on exactly why that is. When oil was about $140 per barrel last year we were being raped for about $1.40 per litre for diesel, a by product of gas and certainly should always be cheaper than gas. Oil is now about $37 per barrel, almost 1/4 what is was a year ago. Is gas 1/4 what it was a year ago? Why not? ...how is the average person supposed to survive and who is going to protect us from them? Come on guys, dirt cheap gas??? Stop this kind of propoganda!
Anyone these days who tries to sell the idea that THEIR little device can save fuel should talk NOT to carnival consumers, but to the Big 3. They need to convince the world their products are worth buying in order to remain financially afloat - and fuel economy is one of those areas they are slumping in the basement with competition from the Other Big (Japanese) 3.
Flim flam...all a scam!!!
I spoke directly to the EPA and our Canadian equivalent while researching a possible business opportunity for a gas saving product. Most of these products and ideas originated after the 1970's gas crunch and were extensively tested at the time...all failed. It is a waste of money to test these products as they really don't work...You can't trust what you read on the internet on the web sites that promote these products... Save your money and use it to buy gas instead of these useless gas saving products!
We do need devices that will SIGNIFICANTLY reduce the amount of gas consumed over a distance. However, if there are devices that dont work then we need to ban them. I hope the competition bureau is listening?
The guy claimed to do $500,000 in testing. Precisely where and what was the money spent on?
I would like to see a story done on the unreal claims of car manufacturers when it comes to gas milage.
I just leased a 2008 Nissan Versa sl which the company claims will get 6.3 litre/100km on the highway but I get 9 litres/100 km travelling nonstop on cruise control at 100km/hour. I have 1700km on the car. I also get about 11 litres/100 km in the city combined driving and they claim the car gets 7.8 litres/100km. They have tested the vehicle and say that everything is working correctly.
How can they make such claims. It was their milage claims that convinced me to get the car in the first place.
Should have kept my van....similar milage but more interior space.
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A note to Roxanne(February 25, 2009): The retail price we pay for gasoline is made up of a number of factors, with one of them being the price of crude oil. You cannot expect a direct linear link in those two prices.
I examined another gas saver in Calgary several years back. The promoter claimed that this device saves fuel by unclogging the carb or injectors. It routed the fuel inlet line through a heater hose, the idea being that warm fuel burns cleaner. What a joke and a half! This device, by its design, was an engine killer mixing fuel and coolant.
This was a great story but one line made my blood boil. It was the statement about us being able to buy "dirt cheap gas". We are currently paying at least double what we should be for gas or diesel. Why not do a story on exactly why that is. When oil was about $140 per barrel last year we were being raped for about $1.40 per litre for diesel, a by product of gas and certainly should always be cheaper than gas. Oil is now about $37 per barrel, almost 1/4 what is was a year ago. Is gas 1/4 what it was a year ago? Why not? ...how is the average person supposed to survive and who is going to protect us from them? Come on guys, dirt cheap gas??? Stop this kind of propoganda!
Anyone these days who tries to sell the idea that THEIR little device can save fuel should talk NOT to carnival consumers, but to the Big 3. They need to convince the world their products are worth buying in order to remain financially afloat - and fuel economy is one of those areas they are slumping in the basement with competition from the Other Big (Japanese) 3.
Flim flam...all a scam!!!
I spoke directly to the EPA and our Canadian equivalent while researching a possible business opportunity for a gas saving product. Most of these products and ideas originated after the 1970's gas crunch and were extensively tested at the time...all failed. It is a waste of money to test these products as they really don't work...You can't trust what you read on the internet on the web sites that promote these products... Save your money and use it to buy gas instead of these useless gas saving products!
We do need devices that will SIGNIFICANTLY reduce the amount of gas consumed over a distance. However, if there are devices that dont work then we need to ban them. I hope the competition bureau is listening?
The guy claimed to do $500,000 in testing. Precisely where and what was the money spent on?
I would like to see a story done on the unreal claims of car manufacturers when it comes to gas milage.
I just leased a 2008 Nissan Versa sl which the company claims will get 6.3 litre/100km on the highway but I get 9 litres/100 km travelling nonstop on cruise control at 100km/hour. I have 1700km on the car. I also get about 11 litres/100 km in the city combined driving and they claim the car gets 7.8 litres/100km. They have tested the vehicle and say that everything is working correctly.
How can they make such claims. It was their milage claims that convinced me to get the car in the first place.
Should have kept my van....similar milage but more interior space.