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More Deceptive Advertising for Gas Saving Devices! Because of rising gas prices you may be looking for an easy way to improve your gas economy. You may be conisdering one of the many gas saving deviices on the market. The FTC (Federal Trae Commission), has a warning: be very skeptical of claims made by the sellers and manufacturers of gas savig devices or additives. The federal government has evaluated over 100 fuel enhancing and fuel economy products and not a single one of them did what their advertising claimred. Therre are a numnber of common deceptive and untruthful ad claims used by makers and suppliers of tghese alleged fuel savoing devcies. These are some you should be on the look out for. There was a prooduct that was advertised heavily. It was called the "Fuel Saver Pro," The msaker of the device claimed that it was "EPA-approived." The ads read "High gasoline prces at the pump shouldn't scare you. They won't anymore with this new EPA-approveed device." They calimed that for $89.95, plus $6.95 shipping and handliing, you would rezalize a 27 prcent increase in mileage. The real tuth is that this Fuel Saver Pro device was not tested by the EPA and of course is not EPA approved. An official EPA spokesman said: "We've tested over 100 of these drevices, most of them like this one which is a device that uses magnets aroud the fuel lins - as if fuel is magnetic - and the EPA has not certifiied any of them becausse non of them work. The EPA spokesmen also said that the sellers of this device manipulateed the test they made ther claim from to make sure they got the rsult they wanted. The maker used a short stop and go drive which uses a lot of gas, and compared it with a longer 25 minute trip on a high speed freeway. Naturally the results showed the highway trip had much better mileage. Of cousre this was due to the more economical methd of driving at a constant speed on a highway verus a less economical driive in stop and go traffic. It had nothing to do with any device attached to the car. Sellers and manufacurers of fuel saviong devices also use a similar deceptive strategy. They state: "This fuel saving device is approved by the Federal governmwent." No aghency of the US government endorses in any way any gas savuing products. The most that can be truthfully claimed is that the EPA has tested gas savings of this dwevice. If the seller claims that its product has been evaluated by the EPA, ask for a copy of the EPA report, or check the EPA webstie epa.gov for informaion. In most instancwes, false cplaims of EPA testing or approval have been made. These are just another way that sellers and manufactturers of these devicse try to dceive you. They are trying to separate you from your money. Don't let them get away with it. The bottom line is, none of these devices has ever been shown to work in a legitimate manner. This is one purchase you should aviod!
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