Inset Fuel Stabilizer

Some people wonder why aliens with more time than intelligence on their hands would come to earth to mutilate cattle or abduct people for genetic engineering projects. Others ponder more serious questions; such as, what kind of engineering do these creatures have? Do they use leaded or unleaded? Paper or plastic? Or, what kind of gas mileage do they get? Do their spacecraft meet California's rigid emissions standards? How did they get here on just one tank of fuel, and how do they keep hovering around for all these years without making a pit stop at Exxon or BP? I think I have figured out the last question: they use the Inset Fuel Stabilizer!

They must. There is no other explanation for it. What else could possibly explain how they continue to hover around the earth undiscovered, year after year, without making a single pit stop for gas? How else can we explain how they travelled all the miles they have without any sign of polluting the atmosphere? The gas mileage the aliens get and the clean air their craft emit cannot possibly be explained by any of the known laws of physics, or chemistry, or biology, or California. The aliens are using the Inset Fuel Stabilizer.

This amazing device, according to its inventor, Bob Pearson, is able to align fuel and air molecules "in an energy field" so that they completely burn inside the Stabilizer. How does it do this? Bob has no idea, but it works. Of course it does. Only a perverted skeptic could mistrust such a claim. But what is the Stabilizer, then? That much we can say: it is a seven inch long piece of stainless steel. That's it. There is no more. It is just a stainless steel tube which is designed to be inserted in your vehicle's fuel line. How does a stainless steel pipe align molecules? Who knows. How does it keep them aligned once they leave the pipe? Who knows. Why would their alignment have anything to do with whether or not they would burn or emit polluting particulates? Who knows. Trust Bob, it works!

Ray Hall, a reader of The Skeptic's Dictionary, wrote me about this amazing device. He had read about it in his local newspaper in Naperville, Illinois. Apparently, the city of Naperville had shelled out $1,500 each for Stabilizers for the city's maintenance and police vehicles. Mr. Hall writes

Having some background in chemistry and physics I was set to wonder how a device made out of stainless steel and with no connection to a power source of any kind could produce an "energy field." Since this device is put into the fuel line, it was even more interesting that this energy field could "align" the fuel molecules in such a way that after being atomized in the carburetor or fuel injection system they would somehow still be "aligned" with the air molecules in the cylinder. Alignment of molecules is not something that is usually associated with chemical reaction kinematics, certainly not at those temperatures! Give me a break.

So I called the reporter to ask for more details. She arranged to have a Mr. Morris call me. What an interesting phone conversation; I wish I had it on tape. I asked him how it worked. He said that even the inventor didn't know but the results speak for themselves. I asked if there was a patent on the Stabilizer. He said that the workings were a trade secret and that Dupont had cut one open and couldn't figure out how it worked (this second point I could believe). I said that not to patent such a revolutionary device seemed a ludicrous gamble. He said that if they saw someone else move to sell the device they would patent it. I pointed out that since they had sold the device, they had forfeited their right to patent and that I was surprised that he did not know this. He was silent. Finally, I asked him if he had any documentation from a refereed journal or any write-ups of controlled tests of the device. He got very defensive and offered written testimonials and newspaper articles from and about many satisfied customers, including police departments and trucking firms. He further condemned me for my negative attitude; for they were only trying to save this world from pollution, etc. He then told me I had ruined his day and that he was going to discontinue this unimportant phone call and he hung up.

It is obvious the reporter, Susan Trudeau, didn't check out even one of his claims. One such claim was that an "EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] endorsement may be forthcoming in the near future, as an Inset representative is meeting with EPA officials today to discuss the installation and testing of the stabilizer on EPA vehicles." I called all branches of the EPA in Illinois and not only had they never heard of Inset or the Stabilizer. Russell Banush of the EPA told me that the EPA does not and never has endorsed any product!

I must admit that I was very skeptical of Mr. Hall's claims, but I checked out the WWW home page of Inset and, sure enough, it claims that this tube can align molecules and thereby save you money on gasoline and make your engine run virtually pollution free. There you will find testimonials from cops, garbage truck drivers and others, as to the wonders of the Stabilizer. You will find a table which will let you calculate how much money you can expect to save on gas by using the Stabilizer. There is another unskeptical newspaper article for perusal. What you won't find, though, is any evidence that the Stabilizer had been tested under anything that might vaguely resemble a controlled study.

I asked a friend of mine who used to own an auto repair shop if he had ever heard of the Stabilizer. He said that he had but it was called the Vitalizer when he was in business. He thinks it might be the same thing being marketed under another name. He even suggested the unthinkable....there might be fraud involved here! I couldn't believe my ears. Fraud on the internet! What a concept! Anyway, I asked him why, if this were fraud, would anyone be so blatant about it. Weren't they afraid of getting caught and severely punished by the very law enforcement agencies who were giving testimonials on their behalf? Not very likely, he said. By the time law enforcement catches up with these kinds of frauds, says my friend, they have moved on, changed their name, and are doing business as usual somewhere else with the same product but a new name. It happens all the time in the gas and oil additive industry, he said. So, it wouldn't surprise him if it happened in the steel tube/fuel efficiency industry, too.

Well, I was shocked. I had been getting a lot of mail from people who were feeling sorry for me because I was such a negative person. I had vowed to be more positive just to make them feel better. So I looked for the silver lining in the Inset Stabilizer story and thought I had found it in the alien fuel efficiency angle. Now, I have to rethink my hypothesis. But wait. Maybe I can still find something positive here. I can say that if there are aliens hovering around earth looking for some good beef to mutilate or some tasty humans to experiment on, then they are probably using the Inset Stabilizer. And maybe Bob doesn't have to worry about a patent because he has one on his home planet.

reader comments

30 Mar 1996
I enjoyed your story re: the Inset Fuel Stabilizer. I've been following the subject for over 2 years now. Last spring, the NJ Dept. of Transportation was considering offering NJ businesses credit toward Clean Air Act compliance if they had their employees install these gizmos. This was after a study had been completed by the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Their report stated there was was no evidence of an observable trend in the data. You may be surprised that NJIT would have even bothered with something like this, but it was done at the request of State Senator Robert Littell, who claimed to be experiencing great results with the product on his cars. Littell received a copy of the report, and then told the Newark, NJ Star-Ledger in October, 1994 that he was "perplexed by the findings of the report." He said he didn't understand why they didn't achieve the same results he had. To this day, he continues to support the device. I read the report myself, and found it to by very thorough and comprehensive.
Marty

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