The Ethos Challenge |

On Thursday, July 10th, 3:20pm Jerusalem time and 8:20am Eastern Time, I was interviewed on the Murphy show on WKZL radio in Greensboro, NC.

Calling the Station from th

e lowest place on earth – the Dead Sea, this is what it sounded like.

On May 1st, the city of North Miami has finished its own testing of Ethos realizing a 12.5% improvement in fuel economy, along with a 19.34% reduction in harmful emissions.  Mayor Kevin Burns, the City of North Miami has signed the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement just like the mayor of my city – Austin, TX,  Will Wynn did.

Yet, in today’s paper, the Austin statesman  cover story was all about Austin moving toward greener fleet spending “more than $8 million since 2007″ in the process.  While Florida is mandating the use of new technology in their city fleets to save money and be green, Austin is turning to nonrenewable fossil fuels like Propane and compressed natural gas.

Austin’s Green Plan intends on turning Austin to be carbon neutral by 2020 and using Corn-based ethanol to achieve that.  Some of the city’s new vehicles, including 118 police squad cars, will run on E85, the remainder of the city’s unleaded gasoline fleet will start using E10 ethanol. Corn-based ethanol requires more energy to produce than it generates and raises the price of corn, a feed crop for livestock, pinching farmers and inflating grocery bills for consumers.

The cover story in the Austin’s Statesman claims that “Technology hasn’t advanced enough to make a carbon-neutral fleet a reality without offsets”. What technology is Katie Humphrey referring to, and hasn’t she read the news about Florida?

So, especially for Katie, here’s the scoop:

Patrick Glennon, president of Ethos Environmental East, Inc., said, “We are very excited that these cities have seen the benefit of using Ethos FR®. This is an area of the country with high expectations for air quality and these cities have recognized that by using Ethos Fuel Reformulator they can bring immediate improvement to their environment and save on fuel budgets too. We commend the cities of Bal Harbor and Boca Raton for their extensive testing, and we look forward to continuing our service to them.”

One would think that since mayor Will Wynn is on the same committee as mayor Burns – that they’d at least talk before our mayor goes out to spend more than $8 million of our tax money.

State inspections show over and over again, that vehicles using Ethos FR are not polluting the air. Not only that, with Ethos, we’re moving from ‘carbon neutral’ to ‘carbon free’ – with zero CO (better than the hybrids without the extra $4,000 – $8,000/vehicle) and extra low HC.

So is Austin truly green? Does our mayor really care about their air?  So far, it doesn’t seem so.

We all want a car that gets the best gas mileage but if you have to pay too much for the car to begin with, where’s the savings?

GasBuddy.com run a poll this week, asking 28,017 people “Do you plan to purchase a more fuel efficient vehicle due to high gas prices?”

Almost 40% of them are considering it or about to purchase a new fuel efficient car.

http://www.fueleconomy.gov states that the average miles per gallon you can expect from a fuel efficient car is 28 mpg.

Is that all? 28mpg? really?

Bob Lingrem’s Dodge did better than the average miles per gallon of a fuel efficient car!

Bob is a former manager of Michelin tire’s technical department for five years. Bob was trained in England on all aspects of tire testing with the most important being fuel economy tests. Bob used his past experience and applied it to testing Ethos FR. Bob run an extensive test on a 2001 Dodge driving it from Houston to Austin and back. The car’s miles to gallon without Ethos was 22.65 mpg. During the first 145 miles to Austin, the miles per gallon increased to 28.45 with 5oz in crankcase and 4 oz in fuel tank. Coming back to Houston the Dodge went up to 30.20 miles per gallon and running smooth as silk!

You can read Bob’s complete testimonial here.

But you’ll do better hearing it directly from him. Give him a call – (281)257-3067 and ask him to tell you why he fell in love with Ethos, and why he’s spending his days sharing his knowledge with others.

He’ll be happy that you did.

Ethos FR is all about saving the environment while saving you money, and now we’re doing it by giving you back money you already spent on gas – up to $500 back!

How does it work? simple!

1. Buy Ethos FR - and drive as much as 25% farther on a tank of gas
2. Get voucher code in an email
3. Fill up your car as usual (don’t forget to add an ounce of Ethos to every 10 gallons of fuel) and keep the receipts!
   
4. Mail in $100 worth of receipts and get back a $25 gift card to use at the station of your choice for anything you want, including gas.
5. You can get back $500 to pay for gas you’re buying anyway.

This is our way of saying THANK YOU for taking care of our world.

But until this technology is available to the masses you can save as much as 70 cents/gallon with Ethos today.
Give it a try!

Here in Austin we’re still looking at $2.90 /gallon, but drivers in the West coast already see the beginning of $3.5 – $4/gallon:

What contributes to the increasing gas prices?
Yahoo Finance lists them as follows:

• Organization of Petroleum and the activities of it’s 12 members, such as Mexico cutting a fifth of its crude-oil production.
• The weak U.S. dollar – Since oil is traded in dollars, when the dollar value goes down, the cost of oil goes up.
• OPEC – OPEC restricts output to keep prices high

Is Bio-Diesel the answer? According to Yahoo Finance, it’s a market in disarray: “A flooded market has made it more cost effective for ethanol producers to hold on to their supply than to sell it” and investors have been losing money.

At the same time, Fox business informs the nation that gas prices are going down:

After you watch this video, and decide that you want to get even better gas mileage – Give Ethos FR a try. You’ll save more than just 70 cents per gallon – you’ll save the world!

Presidential candidate Mike Gravel says that we’re actually paying $7/gallon!

Watch:

What does Maxim knows that you don’t? Plenty.
But probably more important to you is what it knows about the sum you’re dropping at the pump every week.

For example, did you know that two thirds of the cost of fuel is pure profit for the Big Oil companies? no?
According to NPR the profits are as followed:

• Exxon Mobil reports quarterly profits of more than $10.3 billion, the second-best quarter ever for a U.S. company. Exxon Mobil’s mark is topped only by the company’s own record, which it set late last year.
• BP and Royal Dutch Shell both reported profits of more than $7 billion.
• Conoco Phillips says it made more than $5 billion in the quarter.
• The total for the five largest oil companies to well above $30 billion.

James Mulva, the CEO of ConocoPhillips objects to Maxim’s data sayin: “Actually, our profit per dollar of revenue for our industry is somewhere in the neighborhood of six to seven, a little more than seven cents, a dollar, which is quite comparable with respect to other industries.”

Personally, I tend to believe NPR.

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