Has anyone heard of a product called Ethos Fuel Reformulator? It's made by a company based in San Diego and my brother, who lives there, sent me some links about it. According to this article,
http://www.ucan.org/News/sandiego.co...ess%20News.htm, the Marine Corps, local fleet companies and China are all using this product. Their website is
http://www.ethosfr.com/. I am extremely skeptical of anything claiming that their "miracle product" can increase gas mileage (this one claims 7-19% with a 30% reduction in emissions while increasing engine life). It's statements like "Ethos FR reduces emissions without adding any of its own components to the exhaust since it is 99.99976% ashless upon combustion...". It is extremely rare to have the capability to measure anything to that number of significant digits.
It's supposed to be $20/pint, which will last 160 gallons of gas. I ran through the numbers using my Accord's fuel economy (28.5 mpg driving 2000 mi/month) and gas prices of $2.50/gal and $3/gal. The result over the course of a month was a savings of $3.27-20.59 if gas costs $2.50/gal and $5.56-26.18 if it costs $3.00/gal. The range is based on the 7-19% improvement.
Anyway, has anyone else heard of this product? I'll have to wait until I read some independent results of this type of product before I'd buy it, but was curious if anyone else was using it.