Fuelstar!
In correspondence with Fuelstar, Mr Cornelius generously provided some referees for me to contact. I don't intend embarrassing those unsuspecting people here, but I have transcripts of the conversations and names and addresses if anyone really wanted to check that the homework has, in fact, been done.
19/11/07
Transport Company #1 is involved in hauling logs. Accordingly, they have a fleet of on- and off-road vehicles. I am assured by the owner that they have been receiving benefits from Fuelstar and that it worked extremely well on one old bulldozer, where the firm had noted a huge improvement in both performance and emissions once Fuelstar was fitted. I asked the obvious question of whether any maintenance had been done at the same time. The answer was yes, and a list of maintenance from new fuel injection unit to tune up were carried out at the same time as Fuelstar's fitting.
Transport Company #2 is a major transporter based in Auckland. Again, the owner is quite adamant in the improvement Fuelstar has created for him. He specifically used his Toyota 4WD as the best example. Not only did they know it worked, they had proof that it worked! Apparently, the Toyota - which performance had increased incredibly thanks to Fuelstar - had a sophisticated fuel filter in the injection unit, placed after the tin pellets, before the motor. I was advised that the tin works so efficiently at getting into the fuel that the filter unit got "gunked up" with tin! Asked how he knew it was tin, I was advised that it was definitely tin, because the substance was scraped out and found to be magnetic! Proof indeed!
Except that.....
....tin is neither magnetic nor able to be magnetised.
Oh well, back to the old drawing board...
20/11/07
As promised, references for Fuelstar have been updated after interviewing Harry Duynhoven, Minister for Transport Safety.
Mr Duynhoven made an initial comment that he could not be publicly seen to support Fuelstar and that he had advised Mr Cornelius of this. Strange then that he should support it when I asked him about it, as he was aware that this was being made public.
Mr Duynhoven purchased a Fuelstar unit after it was offered to him and he fitted it on a VW Kombi van. He trialled it and it appeared to work. He "assumed it would work in accordance with the maker's technical information" and said of Fuelstar, having been fitted to his personal vehicles, that he "found it to be good".
Mr Duynhoven took great pains to indicate that he held "200,000 kms of fuel data" for his Kombi van. He advised me that the mileage did not change, but he was able to gain the same mileage changing to cheaper 91 octane petrol.
When asked about the potential environmental and health aspects of tin being emitted into the atmosphere, Mr Duynhoven admitted that he did not make enquiries on that subject, in his words, "I'm confident that the tiny amount of tin being emitted were better than the larger amounts of lead."
Mr Duynhoven felt that, despite, again in his own words having, "No idea what compounds were emitted, but they were obviously some tin compounds."
He continued to say that they would be "very tiny amounts". (Those very tiny particles and the very tiny amounts of them are discussed in depth here)
This is what chemistryonline says about tin:
The U.S. government has set a standard of 2 milligrams per cubic meter of air for most tin compounds. For organic compounds of tin (those that contain the element carbon also), the Limit is 0.1 milligram per cubic meter. Miners and factory workers are the most likely people to be exposed to these levels of tin. The amount of tin absorbed from canned foods is too small to be of concern to consumers.
There is one other aspect of Mr Duynhoven's support of Fuelstar which is interesting.
He was originally offerred the unit for free, but felt, as an MP, that he should be seen to pay for it, so he suggested paying cost price.
Given that the tin holding the tin pellets, and the tin pellets are all made out of tin - about 100gm of it all up - it may not have been to expensive for old Harry. Tin costs about $17 a kilogram.
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