I took one look at the e-mail, forwarded by a friend, and dismissed it as a scam.
"A new wonder fuel (whether it be petrol or diesel) tablet called the MPG Cap, is launching tonight … Save as much as 17 percent on your monthly fuel bill, yes 17 percent. Imagine the hype, now everyone wants this product, blah, blah …"
The e-mail contained a photo of a blister pack of what looked like multi-vitamins.
And the clincher for me was the fact that the so-called miracle pill is sold via a network of distributors.
You literally pop a pill in the tank when you fill up and it dissolves in 10 minutes Typical, I thought. A bunch of slick con artists are capitalising on consumers' despair at the price of fuel, with the promise of popping a pill in the tank and making our cars more fuel efficient.
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Yeah, right.
I recently read a warning on a US consumer site about such fuel-saving devices.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has tested more than 100 "gas-saving" products and has apparently not found any product "that significantly improves gas mileage".
Some of the gadgets may even damage a car's engine or increase exhaust emissions, the EPA found.
The more I researched this product, the more I reconsidered my outright dismissal One product the EPA has registered, but not tested, is the MPG-Cap, marketed by Fuel Freedom International of Florida, US, in 200 countries. It is said to create a micro-thin coating on the inside of the combustion chamber in the engine, allowing fuel to burn more efficiently.
You literally pop a pill in the tank when you fill up and it dissolves in 10 minutes.
The claimed result is an astonishing 75 percent reduction in environmentally unfriendly emissions - the original aim of the product - and an average of 10 percent increase in fuel efficiency, plus an unspecified increase in performance.
This at a cost of R25 per pill. A 40-litre tank would take half a pill per full tank, and an 80-litre tank a full pill.
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