What is with these "run your car on water" ads on the side bar?

Question

Are these businesses actually selling this bull in the US? How is the FTC not shutting these fraud artists down?

If anyone here has ever actually bought one I hope you have chased the people who sold it to you down and got your money back. A search of "run car water" shows that a LOT of answerers are buying into this stuff.

GYAH!!!!!!?!

Answer 1

Funny! This reminds of something called the Pogue Carburetor that was available back in the early 80's. Allegedly, it would give your car 100 miles/gallon or something like that. Trouble is, when a reputable magazine tried it, their test car didn't run!

That ad is baloney.

Answer 2

it's water injection system, apparently improves the efficiency of your engine. you still have to put fuel in!

Answer 3

My answer is, if water actually worked and we could run our cars on it, why didn't people try it a long time ago!?

Answer 4

Some car run on compressed air.  However, compressing the air takes a lot of electricity.  Instead of compressing air or water, use the electric motor to drive at speeds under 55 mph.  That is what the Ford Hybrid Escape does.  The battery is charged by using the brake.  No plug ins.

Answer 5

Hey Ive seen the same ads also.

It makes my skin crawl!

This is not a new phenomena however, the same thing was happening in the states in the 1930's.

A traveling salesman (fraudsters) would set up a stand in a town market and claim this miraculous pill could be dissolved in a gallon of water and poured into your tank and that was all you needed.

In some cases I understand that they actually used a form of dehydrated acetone. The problem was that even though this did work for a short time the heat produced during the combustion would destroy the engine in short order.

I suspect more actually had a false tank that was being used to demonstrate and sell their product which was probably no more than a clump of dough!

Rip off artists and con men have been around ever since man. And sad to say will always be with us. This is what people should be aware of, and the more you understand about a subject, the less likely you will be conned.

The real problem today is that most people are not like us, they are extremely gullible and easily taken for a ride.

They would prefer to sit and watch the next series of 'Big Brother', than to learn anything of real value.

So even though I detest the 'Rip of Artists', I find it hard to sympathize with those who have been taken advantage of at times.

In closing I do have to say that I don't think you can be any more pissed off than me!

Cheers

Answer 6

were as the average car can not run on water and your right that most of the people who bought it are just stupid. It is possible for a car to work on water, there are people who have designed car engines that can run on water, oil,  grease, even alge.

Answer 7

Most want to run the car on gasoline and just hydrogen . First if u look at the tail pipe gas there is no surplus oxygen . If there is CO coming out the tail pipe it is burning about 80% of  the fuel because there is not enough oxygen to burn all the fuel. So what good will it do to add more fuel without the oxygen to burn all of it.

Answer 8

Its all B.S.

Answer 9

the problem in getting the government to shut these snake oil salesmen down is that they only have to produce one system that actually works as advertised, in that they can prove that they are making hydrogen, and that they are using it to supplement gasoline combustion, and they can sell the system and make fairly wild claims.

the real problem isnt the snake oil salesmen, it is the idiots that read what the snake oil people say, and then dont use their own brains to think for themselves. if they did, then the snake oil would go away. until people understand the statement "if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is" then PT barnum's statement "there is a fool born every minute" will always hold true. snake oil salesmen rely on the saying "you can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you cant fool all of the people all of the time".

Answer 10

Just like a steam engine!

Answer 11

I'm not sure that a lot of answerers are buying these.  I suspect that a lot of answerers are SAYING that they bought these.

I am aware that some products that makes incredible claims either pay answerers to lie, or they have built up a network of "dealers" who work together to promote their (false) claims.   So they have a network of people who will respond to questions about these products with answers touting their success.  

Of course, I can't say for certain that this is true for the "run your car on water" people.  Making that claim without first hand knowledge would constitute libel.   But don't assume that everyone who says that they purchased these kits actually did purchase a kit.