----- Original Message ----- From: "Zeke Anderson" <zeekstah@ktc.com> > I intend to be pro-active about my fuel. > > In the meantime, I have come across the advertising for a product named > Algae-X. > > 'Eliminates tank sludge forming microbes. Dissolves existing etc. etc. Hi Zeke, Two words: "Prove it" It's very easy for a company to make such claims but they never offer any evidence that the claims are true or that the claims have any potential benefit for the customer. I'm not familiar with Algae-X but it's been my observation that many additive companies rely on the fact that this is a fairly esoteric subject which makes it unnecessary to bedazzle you with brilliance and easy to baffle you with B.S. You'll find tons of stuff in the TWL archives on this subject. Here are a few links to some of my posts to get you started: http://www.samurai.com/lists/trawler-world-old/1999/09/0038.html http://www.samurai.com/lists/trawler-world-old/1999/11/0295.html http://www.samurai.com/lists/trawler-world-old/1999/11/0446.html http://www.samurai.com/lists/trawler-world-old/1999/11/0426.html http://www.samurai.com/lists/trawler-world-old/2000/03/0122.html Hope this helps. Skeptically yours, Alex

Sometime, when I wasn't looking, everything got "deregulated" and we lost what little "truth in advertising" we ever had. At 15:13 11/26/00 -0800, you wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Zeke Anderson" <zeekstah@ktc.com> > > >> I intend to be pro-active about my fuel. >> >> In the meantime, I have come across the advertising for a product named >> Algae-X. >> >> 'Eliminates tank sludge forming microbes. Dissolves existing etc. etc. > >Hi Zeke, > >Two words: "Prove it" > >It's very easy for a company to make such claims but they never offer any >evidence that the claims are true or that the claims have any potential >benefit for the customer. > >I'm not familiar with Algae-X but it's been my observation that many >additive companies rely on the fact that this is a fairly esoteric subject >which makes it unnecessary to bedazzle you with brilliance and easy to >baffle you with B.S. > >You'll find tons of stuff in the TWL archives on this subject. Here are a >few links to some of my posts to get you started: > >http://www.samurai.com/lists/trawler-world-old/1999/09/0038.html > >http://www.samurai.com/lists/trawler-world-old/1999/11/0295.html > >http://www.samurai.com/lists/trawler-world-old/1999/11/0446.html > >http://www.samurai.com/lists/trawler-world-old/1999/11/0426.html > >http://www.samurai.com/lists/trawler-world-old/2000/03/0122.html > >Hope this helps. > > >Skeptically yours, > >Alex