Syntek Xtreme Fuel Treatment - Where Is The Evidence That It Works?

Consumer Watchdog | Monday January 26, 2015 11:06

 

One says:

“Extreme Fuel Treatment is here. No more spending in Fuel. Save your money and place an order with [XXX]. You can also join to become a distributor and start making lots of money.”

Another says simply that:

“our product save petrol”

Their South African web site makes a number of claims about the product including that it:

• Reduces Harmful Emissions

   And Pollutants.

• Improves Vehicle Performance a

  And Power

• Prolongs Engine Life and Reduces Wear  • Increases Fuel Mileage and Economy

Another, rather more eloquently but also more incoherently, explains that the product is:“An advanced burn-rate modifier and combustion surface modifier catalyst, which, when combined with gasoline or diesel fuel, increases the rate of the combustion reaction and changes the surface structure of the fuel to achieve a more efficient combustion process.”

But is there actually an evidence that this product works? The first skeptical question to ask is this; if this product really worked don’t you think the entire company would have been bought by one of the petrol companies by now?

Either to make their fuel go further and reduce their production costs or, if you prefer a cynical point of view, to kill the product as part of their evil plan for world domination.

Meanwhile, is there actually any evidence that it does what they say it does?

I’ve asked various distributors in Botswana on numerous occasions to supply some evidence that the product does something. Some of them have taken the time to email me various documents but so far there’s not been one actual piece of evidence.

Not a shred. Yes, they’ve sent me details of one report that suggested that there was a minor increase in the energy release from fuel combustion when their product was used but this study was enormously unscientific. My concerns about the test were that:

• There was no indication of the margin of error understood in these tests,

• the tests appeared to be single sample, unrepeated tests,

• the absence of any indication of the statistical significance of the difference in results,

• the absence of any indication of impartiality or of the funding of the examinations; and

• the absence of peer-review

These are all fairly basic components in any scientific experiment, whether it’s testing a fuel “treatment”, a medicine or the existence of the Higgs Boson.

Another, more senior distributor sent me a huge quantity of material about various tests of their product they claim were made on a range of vehicles. One was done using a Dodge pickup.

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