Can a few ounces of kerosene improve gas-mileage?

If you believe that fuel enhancers and other elixirs can improve an already highly complex product like gasoline, then please feel free send your money on. There are several companies more than willing to help you.

To be honest I am instantly suspicious when a very small company comes up with a fix that the large oil companies with rooms of highly educated engineers and chemists have missed all these years. Anything is possible I suppose, but I'm not convinced.

Oh, yes, your first question was about adding kerosene to gasoline. Haven't heard of that one, but I doubt you will see much change in a full tank. Added to a gallon it probably will make for some unusual performance.

the last claim on these groups a few weeks ago were for adding acetone (nail polish remover) to gasoline to turn it into a high mileage wonder fuel

No, it wont work. Don't do it. It may mess with your emissions system and actually do harm.

The fact that you are asking explains why they keep coming up with new miracle products. There's always another doofus out there that is willing to believe. It's the triumph of hope over reality as someone once said about second marriages.

You're wrong. It actually works, but only if you also attach a magnet to the a fuel line.

Nope... BS.

And add a "Tornado" to the air intake.

I haven't a clue, but have repeatedly heard that a small amount of Diesel fuel will help prevent vapor lock. Never had to try it, but I've heard it enough that there might be something to it.

nate

And replace you air filter with pantyhose.

Isn't Kerosene more expensive than gasoline? Better be *real* noticable improvements in fuel economy.

BTW, I'm not being the guinea pig. Someone else can try it and let me know.

molecular

Considering that the kero will burn like oil in the system and burning oil is REALLY bad for the converter why would you want to poison the system? Like replacing those parts?

Basically it is BS, Just like adding Acetone, Moth Balls, Diesel and a few others.

This is still based on the myth that mixture is not homogenous on current engines, which is not true. The inefficiency of current engines is a THERMAL thing, not a mixture thing.

Fractional Distillation is the process used to refine crude oil in order to extract the petrol in the first place! There is no *Fractional Distillation* going on in your engine that could be *reduced*! That statement alone should hint at the reliability of this advice.

Rob

The "heck" with "disingenuous fuel additives" and defraying fossil fuel usage through ethanol. How about a diesel vehicle that can run on biodiesel? I actually have a filling-station that sells biodiesel, and

what's so difficult about burning biodiesel? I wasn't aware of any major modifications that needed to be made at all...

nate