Fuel Economizers - Crap or Cool?

These fuel economizer gadgets have been floating around for years. They promise the moon – Better gas mileage! Lower emissions! Stop global warming! Ok, maybe not the global warming part, but some of these claims are a little too much to believe. As you can see, I’m in an overly polite mood. Since gas prices are skyrocketing and look like they’ll remain in the stratosphere for a while, let’s take a look at some of the sites offering these gadgets and see what they’re all about.

FuelMaster.com – Well, they don’t get any points for site design. Oops, my polite mood just went right out the window. They boast of selling 750,000 units and what do you know, they actually do claim to stop global warming. This site claims that an: “Independent, U.S. EPA Accepted Lab which showed results for FuelMaster showing an average of 11.6% better highway fuel economy.” Ok, so far so good. But wait, there’s more! The claims start to go downhill when they try to explain just how the FuelMaster works. Anytime a company starts a sentence with, “There are many theories regarding this. Yes, there is a patent on FuelMaster but even still we continue to research this phenomenon, to get closer and closer to a more definitive answer,” I tend to back up a little.

They could tell you more, but hey, they’re busy people. When a company doesn’t know how the heck their gas saver works…Houston, we have a problem. The FuelMaster isn’t cheap – the starter kit will cost you $50, but you also get handy little fuel treatments (which may explain the results their lab found.) Of course, you could save money if you joined their reseller team, which bears more than a passing resemblance to an MLM scheme.