Gas Additive, Fact? or Myth? Options

[Engman]

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[VaccaRabite]

Well, why not.

In the mind of the corporate exec, if you had the option of selling X gallons of fuel, or Y gallons of fuel (and X > Y) you would need a pretty spectacular argument on why you would choose option Y.

Other things to consider: Reformulation costs money. Lots of money.
Most corporations are resistant to change (especially change that could damage profits). The only reason most corporations change in a manner which reduces overall sales is due to governmental oversight.

Big oil has a long history of buying up patents that would reduce fuel needs and shelving them.

I say do the experiment. It might be snake oil, it might not. The only way to tell is to run it in your car, plot the numbers, and report back. For myself, the cons (acetone is nasty stuff, it might kill my paint if I spill it, and the marginal benefit does not outsize the marginal cost in my time) don't make it a viable experiment right now.

Zach

[Cap'n Krusty]

Well, why not.

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Big oil has a long history of buying up patents that would reduce fuel needs and shelving them.

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Zach

Care to list some of those patents? That assertion has been floating around for decades, maybe even a century, and I've never heard of a single verifiable proof it's been happening. And I wasn't talking about "big oil". It's like the fabled 1930s "100 MPG carburetor" that agents of Standard Oil stole (and killed the inventor). Not bloody likely, as they say.

It's the car manufacturers who are under the government gun, the gun called "CAFE", and who are desperate for ways to meet the new fuel economy standards with cars that weigh more every year because they have to install all the mandated safety equipment to protect the motoring public from itself. What's a 914/6 weigh? You think they could have produced a Boxster (25 years later) that weighs the same? Maybe not. The Cap'n

[TravisNeff]

It's the car manufacturers who are under the government gun, the gun called "CAFE", and who are desperate for ways to meet the new fuel economy standards with cars that weigh more every year because they have to install all the mandated safety equipment to protect the motoring public from itself. What's a 914/6 weigh? You think they could have produced a Boxster (25 years later) that weighs the same? Maybe not. The Cap'n

A boxster that weighs the same as the 914-6. That'd be an Elise. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)