Run Your Car on HHO???

Recently someone asked me if I had heard about cars running on HHO. I had no idea of what HHO might be, so they explained. This is supposed to be an inexpensive system where your car burns water along with gasoline and when added to your car improves your gas mileage by 40% or so. Now I'm thinking HHO sounds suspiciously like H2O. So I began Googling HHO.

This is all about running your car on Hydrogen and gas mixture to improve efficiency.

I saw one video from WYFF in Greenville, SC of someone who is supposed to be the Chief of Police of a small town Honea Path, SC. He was saying that it had improved the gas mileage by 6 to 8 miles per gallon on their vehicles!!

I saw another from a TV station in Miami that supposedly tried it on their truck and it went from 9 miles per gallon to 24 miles per gallon!!!

This is kind of how it works. You have a container with water inside your engine compartment that has wires running to is. The wires carry electricity from the battery (thru the switch, so it won't run your battery down). The wires, one positive and one negative, create "charged water" Also coming out of this container is a hose that supplies the resulting gas to your carburetor and manifold. I assume what is coming out is a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen gas. The claim is that your engine does not presently burn all of the gasoline, but by adding this gas, you burn all of it and gain more efficiency.

I saw where these kits range from $49 to $200 to install them yourself, or up to $1200 if you have a mechanic install it for you. You can either google to read some of this, or probably click on some of the ads on the right and you will get to see some of the videos and information I am talking about.

All of this brings up questions in my mind. If this is so good, why haven't we heard about this from the various environmentalist groups, or Congress, or especially GM, Ford, and Chrysler? Will it damage your car, causing your engine to rust inside, damage the catalytic converter, will the water freeze in the winter OR is this a scam to take your hard earned $ away from you?

So I pose this question to each of you, have you tried this and can say it improves gas mileage and can you say how much the improvement was? Or do you know someone that has tried this?

Some of the advertisements for this fix remind me of a used car salesman or the ginzu knife deal on late night TV. But there are some interesting things being reported by some TV stations, but the end result is they seem to go hmmm, then never say whether they absolutely believe it or not.

At this time of high gas prices, we definitely need solutions, but at the same time we need the media, the Federal Trade Commission, and others to protect us from a potential scam, or let us know that it really works.

What are your thoughts or experiences with this?

Have a wonderful day!!