Hi Scotty, I have been watching you for years on youtube.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. It has been quite helpfule.
Just wondering if you have tried B-Eco fuel tabs. Their useres claim to save around 15-30% per tank?
It's a scam.
It reminds me of this article I saw a while back in which one of the suggestions for saving on gas was trying to walk more and use the car less (I don't know who pays these idiots to write such nonsense). But in general since the increase in gas prices I have personally been seeing a lot of scam and nonsense stuff out there on tips for saving fuel and getting higher mpg. But the reality is you can't really do much unless yeah not driving and instead putting the car in neutral and pushing it. A car that is supposed to give 30 mpg you can't make it magically give you 40 mpg for example.
Happens with every hike, "use these simple tricks for double your mileage!"
I recall sears pushing that slick 50 garbage with obscene claims back when I was a kid helping the stock room guy sling tires & exhaust while my mom was at work. They ended up sued over that one (the slick 50, not the child labor😄)
Filled up maybe a day before it left the $2 zone & then the truck broke down so I've got preemo vintage in the tank.
"walk more and use the car less"
I can confirm. This works!
Other benefits include physical fitness and recognizing the people in your neighborhood.
@mmj it definitely works but what made it more funny was the article was published for Seattle, WA area in which one can't live without a car unless they live in downtown apartments and walk to work and grocery, so pretty much useless for most of their intended audience.
Of course you need to own a car. But I think most people could stand to drive a little less and walk a little more.
"Childhood obesity at record levels in US and Canada"
Who are their users, paid reps?
Total BS.
Is this something that you put into your tank and it dissolves? If so, I would seriously question putting something in my tank that's supposed to dissolve. That's asking for trouble if it doesn't and it clogs your fuel filter.
A 30% improvement in fuel economy on otherwise normal driving is practically impossible unless you go from driving like the guys from Gone in 60 Seconds or Fast and Furious to an old lady in her big sedan, or you really neglected the air filter and everything else in the car and randomly fixed it all. I got 18% better fuel economy in my truck recently by not driving like a scaled ape and keeping my RPMs below 2100. 19.3 MPG instead of 16 MPG. I probably can't get much better than that, it takes so much gas to go so fast. Final drive ratios and such can be tinkered with if someone knows what they're doing, but the engine can still only recover around 30% of the chemical energy in gas and convert it to mechanical energy. The other 70% is waste heat. Basically, all of those MPG boosters are scams.
Train your right foot to go easy on the gas, and leave yourself enough time to get where you're going. You'll save a pretty substantial amount of gas.
