Fuelstar!
"Save 12% of fuel costs! Improve your engine's power! Reduce your exhaust emissions!"
Those are the claims made by the manufacturers of Fuelstar.
They are false claims - not one of them is true. It doesn't reduce emissions, it won't improve your power and it will actually cost you money.
Here are some of our questions for Mr Cornelius, "inventor" of Fuelstar
What real science has to say about Fuelstar.
The conundrum for Fuelstar: if it works, it may be killing you!
25 August 2010
It's time to gloat a little.
While the Commerce Commission remains still crawling towards the inevitable, we can rightly claim to have destroyed Fuelstar anyway. For three years, we have been educating people about Fuelstar and taking the piss out of Ian Cornelius and his "invention".
Our web statistics, discussion forums across the world, and support from actual scientists tell us that we are succeeding beyond expectations.
Fuelstar no longer tries to sell units for cars, and they have given up their 0800 number in New Zealand due to the lack of business. If you want to call Fuelstar in New Zealand, the only contact means or detail shown is one cellphone number - hardly how an honest business deports itself! No address, not even a P O Box number.
Immortality's pages which expose Fuelstar as a fake rate higher on every Google search than Fuelstar itself, except for its index page, which rates higher than these pages on one search only.
Ian Cornelius has been driven out of the market, because as buyers become more sophisticated in researching their products, they have learnt that Fuelstar is a bad joke which will costs them money.
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Fuelstar has another incarnation, using apparently identical "technology", materials - tin pellets in a tin can - Broquet. We have extended the same offer to Broquet as Fuelstar - bring us your device and we will pay to have it tested independently.
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22 April 2010
Fuelstar continues the bullshit!
A press release yesterday, printed by the ever-naive New Zealand Herald has the chief bullshit artist, Ian Cornelius, claiming that he has developed a vibration mechanism to release particles of tin!
This is an astounding development indeed, especially in light of Fuelstar's previous claims that the vibrations on heavy diesel units were the most successful of all.
This is just more bullshit from Cornelius and Fuelstar.
They continue to produce the same flawed tests as they always have, while making wildly inaccurate claims that a Fuelstar will save you "15%".
Ian Cornelius contacted me last year, offering to have his device tested.
Unfortunately, Ian's test was going to cost $300,000.
This shows how absurd Cornelius and his faux product are. If the bloody thing works, it will work on a dynamometer just as well as a racetrack or cattle race.
Back to this startling "development" of Ian Cornelius'.
One of his main objections to running a static test in the past has been that the on-road vibrations are necessary to make it work properly.
Unfortunately, this "development" means that the device can be tested in a laboratory, because the magical vibrations will release the tin regardless!
So, after almost three years of Fuelstar failing to have its product tested, will Ian Cornelius now have it tested?
Will he hell!
December 2009
Just messing around on the internet and noticed that not only does this site rank inbetween the fuelstar.com's own pages, it also ranks higher on Google Ratings than the company itself. To me, there can be little better evidence of the power of the internet. The fake device gets a lower rating than the honest facts about it. Google is clearly getting something right!
October 2009 Update:
I was looking at that number on the left - 113 weeks that we've been highlighting these cynical scams.
If there were a grain of truth in Fuelstar's claims, we would have been sued shirtless by Fuelstar, GasWiz, Broquet and all the other firms we reveal as scammers.
Just think - even an internet giant like Google will squash some anonymous bozo on a blog if they find one saying lies about them. Fuelstar, GasWiz and all the other fuel scams revealed here would not allow me to continue blogging facts about their scams if they really worked.
They know exactly where and who we are, as evinced by Fuelstar's feeble tactic of trying to get our isp to shut us down.
Fuelstar, GasWiz, Broquet, et al; you have nothing except for lies, misrepresented data and anecdotes from the ignorant. We have now educated tens of thousands of people about your scams and will keep doing so until you stop promoting your pretend fuel savers.
April 2009 Update:
With the global economic turmoil, the last thing you should be doing is wasting your money, and if you buy a Fuelstar, GasWiz, Broquet, Water-from-hydrogen or any other kind of fuel-saving device not approved by vehicle manufacturers, then you are wasting money and as you can see from the 11/08 link, possibly harming your family's health.
Just say no to fuel scams!
Important Update, November 2008.
We were the first to raise the issue that if Fuelstar works, it could be killing you.
And just to show back up the already-strong evidence that this issue is real and presents a danger to purchasers of Fuelstar units, scientists are now admitting to deep concerns over nano-technology.
Britain joins a host of other countries calling for more research into the safety of nanotechnology, which allows scientists to manipulate materials at the molecular level. Some fear that nanoparticles, which can often be smaller than viruses, could be unsafe for human consumption.
"There is virtually no data on chronic, long-term effects on people, other organisms or the wider environment," wrote Sir John Lawton, author of the Government-backed report from the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.
Nanosilver - which can be used to keep clothes odour-free - could kill aquatic organisms if released into water supplies, Sir John said.
And carbon nanofibres used to strengthen car tyres could damage lungs.
Sir John said past generations had used materials like asbestos and leaded petrol without understanding their adverse impact.
If your car is using Fuelstar and it really does work, you are endangering the health of yourself and your family who ride in the car. This is exactly how the company and its technicians claim it works.
20th September 2008 - Update.
This is something I hadn't been game to raise - because it's an obvious conclusion and I didn't particularly want to Godwin myself, but I see that a proponent of tin-pellet research (and I do stress the word research) is the International Tin Research Institute.
On their own website, ITRI makes this comment:
If proven, this technology has very significant potential for new tin consumption, driven as it is by global needs for more efficient use of hydrocarbon resources and cleaner combustion. As a low technology solution, it has particular relevance to energy and pollution issues in developing countries.*
Most importantly, the ITRI raises the issue of the technology and the boon it would be to developing nations - if it works.
This is true. What price in human lives could we place on a cheap device which will extend the viable life of diesel machinery, make it cheaper to run and create less pollution doing it? Hundreds a year? Thousands?
And if these supporters of the tin pellets would only have their efficacy verified, aid organisations would be buying the units right now to save lives!
Yet, the holders of the patents for these worthless devices continue to refuse to have the devices tested by an independent body.
* As the Tin Research Institute, it would be remiss of them not to seek possible avenues for using tin. Because they clearly have a vested interest in it, genuine scientific proof is essential for them and that they are aware of this. The ITRI is working on the basis of complying with that requirement before taking one side or the other.
8th August 2008 - Newsflash here!
August 2008
Here we are, over a year later, and we've already educated over 10,000 people on the facts about Fuelstar, GasWiz, Ecotube and other purported fuel saving devices which do not work.
Probably the most gratifying thing of all is that thousands of people are reading tips on how to actually save petrol, using common sense and good driving habits!
Here is the list of the ten best ways to actually cut running costs.
Also, a huge "Thanks!" to everyone, from Croatia to Papua New Guinea, from Canada to Invercargill who comes to the site and links it to discussion forums and chat sites around the world.
The message is plain; no amount of rhetoric or increased Saudi production is able to pull back fuel prices, and this at a time when the western economies are reeling from a rather large asset bubble not just bursting, but exploding.
One thing has been interesting - the knowledge that those who support Fuelstar are the same lunatic fringe who believe in hydrogen fuel cells being real and "big oil" involved in a cover-up. These people believe I run this site because I am an agent of that conspiracy - or even Satan! Check the correspondence file for details.
I had only one reason to investigate Fuelstar - to check out whether it worked. When I realised that it didn't, I happen to think that at a time when people are struggling to pay their fuel bills, adding 480 bucks onto it to buy $0-52c worth of tin pellets should be avoided. Unbelievable though it may seem in the avaristic 21st century, I'm doing something for purely altruistic reasons. I make no money from any of this and I don't even sell advertising on the site, despite the fact that turnover numbers would create me a nice income on the back of this stuff. The one ad you do see is for my own company, which is more to do with me being visibly the voice behind the opinion as any advertising value (bugger all)
Also do note my standing offer to Fuelstar, GasWiz, Ecotube and every other fuel-saver exposed on this site: I will personally pay to have their product tested and evaluated by Auckland Uniservices - a respected and internationally-acceptable organisation which is part of the University of Auckland. Yes, you did read that right, I will pay for it myself - on only one condition; that the owner of the product agrees to stand by and advertise the results of the testing.
Not one of these companies is willing to have their product tested.
If the damn thing works, why are you all scared of having the results tested properly?
There is more than sufficient evidence to say that Fuelstar's claims are false. The case has been referred to both the Commerce Commission and the Ministry for the Environment. Given the number of problems in the commercial marketplace (not the least of which is being understaffed), the Fair Trading Commission has it on the list of organisations to investigate. Meanwhile, I've been cheerfully bringing the matter to public notice in these pages for the past couple of years.
December 2009: In some ways, Ian Cornelius should be thanking me and this site. By successfully educating most people that Fuelstar is bullshit, they are selling very few units and the Ministry of Commerce is busy going after bigger fish, so Fuelstar gained a period of grace from this website!
Merry Christmas, Ian!
Fuelstar is a bogus device which does not work, and I'm convinced that if you read these pages, you will come to the same conclusion.
And Fuelstar is by no means the only one - the rise of fuel-saving scams has been very much in line with the increase in price of petrol, which is pretty obvious. By all means, spend your hard-earned money investing in a complete scam, but isn't there something you'd rather spend $500 on?
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Three and a half years!
That's how long Fuelstar has declined to have its products tested independently
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