Anyone hear of this stuff? It looks like a good way to waste money to me. Pay Less For Gas With Ethos FR
Wow, a really wordy advertisement on that site. I guess if it's good enough for Gabriel, the young woman with the low cut top, then it's good enough for me, right? And what about the man, two adverts below, holding up what looks like his underwear (or depends) , stained in one picture, almost clean in another? Classic one here: "The Maryland emission test found nothing coming from our tailpipe"No DUH...start the engine already. LOL. The esters sound more like scrubbing bubbles, which my wife says doesn't work, the only thing scrubbing is me. Don't forget the "Wait, but that's not all....." Last but not least, the disclaimer. * Gas savings and emissions savings with Ethos vary and are different from car to car and your driving habits. Example: Whether you have an agressive or more passive foot on the gas pedal. Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle. I didn't know gas savings had anything to do with being aggressive or passive on the gas pedal. Buy some, use it and report back here. ZC1
I'm much too frugal (cheap?) to buy it and try it myself until I check to see if anyone here has tried it yet.
hey, it costs 53.95 for 32 ounces! hello?! at that price, how is that going to save money on gas? lady, do your math
It's hard to separate the marketing style from the science. The science seems plausible, although I would expect that there would have to be adjustments to the engine in order to take advantage of any potential extra power. Back in about 1965 a friend owned an Oldsmobile F85 with a turbocharged engine. The turbo boost was limited to about 8 PSI with a waste gate. There was also a several gallon tank of "Turbo Rocket Fluid" that was added to the fuel mixture when the turbo went into boost mode. The combination of limiting the boost and the fluid allowed use of a high compression engine. I think the fluid was basically a water/alcohol mixture. One of the functions of the fuel mixture is to cool the burning temperature. This is commonly done with an extra rich mixture, but can also be done by injecting a cooling fluid, such as this alcohol/water mixture. "Turbo Rocket Fluid" sounds like snake oil, but in this case it had a General Motors part number. Cluster size is an important measure of the effectiveness of many fluids. Micro-cluster water is "wetter", and the claims for this stuff seem similar. The formulation of gasoline is constantly evolving. Just like there will be next year's car, there will be next years gasoline. Maybe this ester stuff will be part of next year's gasoline. New things take a while to be adopted, even when they're clearly superior. So I don't dismiss the stuff. But I'll let someone else check it out...
Not sure what the deal is, but the Ethos office is about 15 min away from where I live, and another similar product, Biomeer, is another 30 min away. It's like I'm at ground zero for the snake oils. LOL.
I dislike oily snakes. Infact I dislike snakes even if they are not oily. I cannot imagine why anyone would want poo in a bottle....
I was so pleased to find snake oil for sale in China that I bought 3 little packets. I guess it is sold as a skin moisturizer, but not doubt it has all the other beneficial properties of...snake oil. If anybody wants to give it a go, I am happy to send some. But you are going to have to pay the shipping and I think that will be costly.
