The Union Democrat ran an article about hydrogen gas saver inventor Frank Robinson, 63, who is selling two dozen or more devices per week. Robinson is a garage tinkerer whose business has spread mostly by word of mouth.

Robinson attributes his success to Stan Meyer, a very controversial figure in this field, who invented a so-called water-powered dune buggy. Even though Meyer has been discredited by the courts in Ohio, he still has many avid fans who have replicated parts of his technology with positive results.

One of the testimonials to Robinson’s hydrogen gas saver is the local hair dresser who says her vehicle when from 14 mpg to 27 mpg with the hho generator installed. According to the article, local firefighters are also using the hydrogen gas saver on their personal vehicles.

As you can see from this blog and others, inventors of hydrogen gas savers are now coming out of the woodwork. It’s about time, too as this country now needs a solution to saving fuel and reducing greenhouse gases.

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According to the Business Line, an American company EcoMobil will be introducing its Hfactor hydrogen gas saver in India. EcoMobil CEO Mr K.B. Prasad says the Hfactor hydrogen generator will reduce fuel costs by up to 30-percent, which is one of the more believable claims from new companies in this industry.

The Hfactor will cost around $450 USD and will carry a vehicle over 2,000 miles before it needs to be “recharged.” The hydrogen generator kits, besides being sold in India initially will also be manufactured there as well.

The EcoMobil Hfactor is also seeking car manufacturers in India for the device. According to Mr. Prasad this will help with consumer confidence that this emerging technology is viable.

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I came across a good article recently that is two years old but still applies today. In the article, three spokespeople for hydrogen gas saver companies talk about how their products are positively affecting the long-haul trucking industry.

Especially interesting are some of the comments about why hydrogen fuel injection technology is not being adopted by the automotive industry.

According to John O’Bireck of Fly-Drive LTD, “It will be a while before the automakers bite on it. It will have to become successful in the aftermarketfirst. Every new innovation – the automatic braking system, seat belts, everything has had to sell on the aftermarket, then the trucking industry accepted it and it became widespread. Today the market is not demanding our solution. The automakers want us to lead the fight in selling it, then when enough people want it, the automakers will say ‘We want to be a part of it.’”

Many critics will say that if hydrogen gas savers are such a great idea then why aren’t the automakers interested. Well, that is the answer why. Also, the critics will say that if hydrogen on demand technology is valid, why isn’t it in every Pep Boys and Autozone nationwide?

The answer is that it will be. There is so much confusion out there as to what hydrogen gas savers are and are not, many people throw up their hands and call the whole emerging industry a scam. But, just last year, the U. S. Department of Transportation acknowledged hydrogen fuel injection as a viable technology. It’s only a matter of time until others acknowledge this as well.

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You can forgive people for making ignorant statements. I do this in conversation all the time. But, in print I try to do a little more diligence, keeping an open mind, checking the fact and testing my theories.

Auto Blog Green apparently thinks they are above due diligence when it comes to hydrogen gas saver technology. Not only did they make a bold statement, saying that hydrogen on demand systems could not possibly work, but now they’ve published another post perpetuating this lie.

In politics and business there is an old saying that if you repeat a lie loudly, boldly and often enough, people will accept this as the truth. The truth is that Auto Blog Green continues to make statements saying hydrogen on demand technology cannot work without doing one test to prove their point.

Apparently, they have no interest in talking with the people on the water car groups that I’ve listed to get input from people who are using these devices and making them work well for their vehicles. Apparently putting their money where their mouth is and testing a hydrogen generator is too mundane for them. After all, they are only a green car website saying that this particular green car technology could never work, even though there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Please Auto Blog Green, talk to the Canadian Hydrogen Energy Company and tell them directly their technology doesn’t work and you can prove it. Talk to Hy-Drive Technologies and tell them that all of the trucking companies running their rigs on the road using hydrogen fuel injection technology are a bunch of big, fat liars.

And, while you’re at it tell Hypower Fuel, Incorporated that you’ve also tested their technology and all of their customers are lying as well. Better yet, just buy an ebook and try this technology on your own car. It would give you a bit more credibility that pompously stating that this hydrogen technology simply cannot work.

The correct response after you do this will be, “Yes, it works and I don’t understand why.”

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There is a Chandler, Arizona company called Arizona Hybrid Technologies that is creating converts all the time. In fact, according to Dan Radacosky, chief operating officer, “We don’t have customers, we have converts.”

The company has created a hydrogen generator called the Mileage Monster that makes the claim of getting 45-percent increased MPG. Radacosky also theorizes that the major automakers have not come out with a hydrogen gas saver on their own yet because they are so historically embedded with the big oil companies.

Arizona Hybrid Technologies does have a couple of skeptical professors at Arizona State University questioning the science behind how hydrogen generators work. But, this is to be expected as skeptics without HHO generators on their own vehicles will many times remain skeptics.

But, according to the article in the Ahwatukee Foothills News, they were able to track down a very satisfied customer who says she is getting a 7 mpg increase in her 2004 Chevrolet Astro van. As I like to say, the proof is in the vehicle and not on a chalkboard filled with theory.

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Are you tired of supposed authorities trashing a technology they haven’t even tried? I know I am.

I’ve talked previously about how the Washington Post and Popular Mechanics have dropped the ball on hydrogen gas saver technology. Now, I’m sad to say that one of the green blogs that I enjoy reading on occasion has done the same.

Auto Blog Green should have a red face regarding this post. Or, at least, they will in the future. In this post, Sam Abuelsamid, admittedly hasn’t tried the technology, but offers supposed proof of how it just can’t work.

Whatever happened to holding one’s biases in check until the results come in? Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Whatever happened to the fair shake, the fair deal and giving something a fair shot?

Well, like I’ve pointed out on other parts of this blog and website, hydrogen gas saver (aka hydrogen fuel injection) technology has been tested and proven for over 50 million road miles with thousands of users on thousands of vehicles.

The part that doesn’t have to be proven is if hydrogen gas savers work, because they do. They only thing that has to be proven now is which device works better than the next. And, we can let the manufacturers and inventors fight out this question.

It’s sad to see Auto Blog Green go the way of the mainstream media with biases more important than facts and theorizing more important than testing. Now, if they would only run a few tests and report what has and hasn’t worked, this would indeed be a bit more credible.

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Just as you haven’t heard much about hydrogen gas savers in the U. S. press, there also hasn’t been much word about these devices in the European press as well. Now, in many ways the European Union is more advanced than the United States when it comes to alternative energy and alternative fuels.

There are hydrogen fueling station projects in Norway such as HyNor, Iceland, Germany and several other countries that are far more ambitious and on task than those in the U. S. states. Hydrogen is being promoted in the UK and Scotland and hydrogen trains are coming to Spain.

Yet, with all of this promotion of H2, it would seem that hydrogen gas savers would be a no brainer for the European countries. Well, this article coming out of Austria is the first I’ve heard of such an endorsement for hydrogen generators for cars.

The journalist starts out with a skeptical mind, which is to be expected, but with more information, turns into an advocate for hho generators. This is something I can relate to since I have a similar story. It took several years for me to come around from the dark side into the light.

I’m just glad that a light is starting to turn on in Europe and hopefully this light will spread around the world.

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Mike Allen, a senior editor for Popular Mechanics is an outspoken critic against HHO technology. Self-admittedly, however, Mr. Allen has never actually tested a hydrogen gas saver on a car before, yet he professes to know all about them and give this technology a thumbs down.

On July 3, 2008 Mr. Allen wrote a column for Popular Mechanics titled “The Truth About Water-Powered Cars: Mechanics Diary” where he disrespects hydrogen-on-demand technology admitting he has never tried it, but is about to build his own electrolysis unit for the first time.

On July 20, 2008 Mr. Allen wrote an automotive question and answer column for the Boston Globe called “Drive it Forever” where he states with authority, “The output of these hydrogen generators is far too small to provide any significant amount of hydrogen or oxygen, anyway.” Really?

Does this mean the testing has been completed? If so, then show us the results. If not, then please shut your pie hole until you have some evidence to show.

Because Mr. Allen has so much crow to eat and face to save by this point one wonders if the accuracy of the test results (if he does ever show them) will be compromised? There is much motivation for not completing the water car testing or giving inaccurate information.

Then again if Mr. Allen is a man of integrity, he will take an about face in regard to oxyhydrogen generators and may just be one of the most high profile advocates for this budding industry. There is now a fork in the road. Let’s see which path he will take.

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Several HHO events either have taken place or will be taking place in Maryland, California and Florida. The first HHO event was the 2008 Hydrogen Booster Rally, which took place in April this year starting in Maryland.

The 2008 Hydrogen Booster Rally started in St. Mary’s County, Maryland with three vehicles equipped with hydrogen gas savers tooling down to the Florida Keys. This rally will also repeat itself in October this year at a yet to be determined date.

The second HHO event this year was the HHO Gathering in Van Nuys, California this past weekend. The event took place at noon at Woodley Park as is expect to repeat over the summer. There were 15 different vendors, a few mechanics and a whole host of consumers at the HHO Gathering, checking out the latest gas savers on the market.

Perhaps, the largest HHO event is yet to come, however, hosted in Florida. The HHO Games and Exposition is scheduled for November 11 – 14, 2008 in Bradenton, FL and the organizers are trying to get together a $100,000 grand prize for the “Best in Show” HHO generator at the event.

At this HHO expo, a wide range of vendors will be selling their kits from between $49 and $750. They will even have mechanics on hand to install the HHO kits on customer vehicles so they may drive away with their functioning purchases.

This may just be the year of the hydrogen gas saver as many new kits are coming out weekly and HHO events are starting to pop up all over the country.

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The Washington Post is one of the most respected newspapers both online and off and is known for their investigative journalism such as that by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein who broke the Watergate scandal. And yet, when it comes to car mechanics matters, 40-year automotive veteran Pat Goss drops the ball by offering his opinion on HHO generators without doing an ounce of research.

Now, how would I know that he hasn’t done his homework? It’s quite simple. In his reply to a reader Mr. Goss confuses an HHO generator aftermarket device with the mythical “water car” that doesn’t exist and never will. According to Goss, “It’s a very differnet thing to try to run an engine on HHO than to light a torch with it. The volume needed to run a car engine is many hundreds if not thousands of times greater.”

Whoa! Goss is talking about running an entire car engine on HHO gas generated from water. This is not the technology talked about in the eBooks on the subject nor is it the technology offered in the kits online. In fact, if Mr. Goss were a puppy I might like to rub his nose in his own pooh on this one and throw him outside.

This supposed 40-year expert in the automobile industry is speaking through his outer orifice about a myth and confusing it with a whole industry of legitimate devices. Apparently, Mr. Goss knows nothing of the National Hydrogen Association endorsement for this technology, the message boards filled with happy users of this technology and the hundreds of inventors recently who have come out with their own legitimate variations of the HHO generator within the past few months.

Now, if Mr. Goss is so freewheeling in his dismissal of HHO generators for vehicles, what else has he been factually incorrect about that needs to be rechecked over his 40-year history? The facts are in that HHO technology works in cars, trucks and other vehicles. The delayers and deniers continue to fall by the wayside. The only open question is how well can you get your HHO gas saver to work on your particular vehicle.

Of course, I should not single out Mr. Goss just because he writes for the high profile Washington Post. Many journalists, columnists and other media types have made and are making the same mistake. But, many also have been eating a lot of crow on this one and coming around. I’m sure the Washington Post like many other prestigious newspapers do not themselves like eating unnecessary crow. They generally expect excellence from the people they hire. So, let’s just set our watches on this one and see how long it takes Mr. Goss to retract or modify his statement. A quick response will be the sign of a true professional.

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