Ethos FR: opinions? More snake oil?

Aug 25, 2006 5 Replies

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DougW

C H O HCOOH Formic acid.. probably not C12H22O11 Sugar.. again, probably not but it's good in iced tea. CH3CH2OH Ethanol.. hey, might have a winner here CH3OH Methanol.. prolly not, not real "non-toxic". I'd say Ethanol And a healty dose of refined snake oil.

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I'm not endorsing this product. Does anyone know if it really works or is it just more snake oil? Here's the blurb for this fuel additive:



Ethos FR is a unique combination of high-quality, non-toxic, specially designed esters that uses only the elements of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.



This combination of low molecular weight cleaning esters and high molecular weight lubricating esters, reformulates any fuel whether its' gasoline, diesel, methanol, ethanol, hydrogen, LNG, compressed natural gas or bio-diesel.



EPA laboratories tests confirm that EthosFR is clean upon ignition and ash less upon combustion. EthosFR is free of carcinogens.



Ethos FR is non-toxic, non-hazardous and works with any fuel used in cars, trucks, buses, RV's, ships, trains and generators. Ethos FR reduces fuel costs by producing a net gain in mileage above cost.



Ethos Environmental offers a cost effective solution to help industry meet environmental regulations and relieve skyrocketing fuel prices. Hundreds of millions of miles of road tests have proven that commercial fleets on average increase fuel mileage between 7% and 19% and reduce emissions by more than 30%.


C H O

HCOOH Formic acid.. probably not C12H22O11 Sugar.. again, probably not but it's good in iced tea. CH3CH2OH Ethanol.. hey, might have a winner here CH3OH Methanol.. prolly not, not real "non-toxic".

I'd say Ethanol And a healty dose of refined snake oil.

If it really worked, don't you think it would be an additive in petrol already ?

Dave

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E85 is a taxpayer-funded additive that lubricates ADM's bank account.

DougW wrote: >

pigdos proclaimed:

Have you paid attention to pretty much what the available blurbs all very carefully avoid saying? Say, what the claimed benefit of this miracle additive is?

Thus making it anything from soup to nuts. Or snake oil, or wood alcohol or grain alcohol or sugar or pretty much any other similarly useless additive.

To what purpose was this done?

Oh good, your jeep won't get cancer. Note that there are very few organic compounds that are NOT carcinogens that are worth a darn as fuel additives.

So if it is non-toxic, what is it? Grain alcohol?

Was this a real question? If so, you'd need to know that is really in that stuff, but the advertising alone has just blown out the batteries in my BS detector.

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