Let me please suggest some (semi-serious) language for an educational campaign:

“Warning Consumers! Trying to power your car on water is a bit like pulling hard on your shoelaces, and expecting to fly…”

Again, thank you for continuing to pursue this. It is important that the consumer be protected from scams which leverage on the fears of our times.

If I may give some counsel from my personal experiences dealing with the FTC: do not rely on e-mail alone. I once had to sent five (5) emails over a two week period (increasing the CC list each time) before I finally received a *phone call* back.

During the phone call, I was told by an FTC official that “e-mail was not an appropriate way to communicate with the FTC”. When I asked this official to summarize what was communicated to me during the phone call, I was told they “would try
to do so when they could”. I never did receive the summary in writing.

Whenever anyone communicates with the FTC, it is important that it be done in writing. Both FAX, and a signed-for physical letter. This seems to be the only thing which *might* trigger a response.

Keep plugging away John. Persistence is the key when dealing with these kinds of agencies. Sad to say!

A belated thank you for bringing this forward.

For reasons I won’t bore you all with, I and (I suspect) the entire “BU Family” will be *very* interested in knowing how the FTC responds to you on your above complaint.

Does the FTC really stand for “Fair Trading Commission”, or does it instead stand for “Forever Talking Confusion”? “Favouring The Corporations”? “Forgetting Their Charge”?

Is the FTC actually doing their jobs, or are they simply spending a great deal of tax payers’ money trying to convince us all that they are? (Heuristics speaks volumes….)

Kindest regards to all.

Why should the PEOPLE of barbados have to rely on Bizzy? There is the Barbados Association of Professional Engineers (BAPE). This should be their role.

I wonder if anyone ever thought of harnessing the energy generated by the waves off our eastern coast. We have no rivers to generate hydro-electric power but wave energy might be a comparable substitute. Next time you go down the East Coast Road, observe the waves which are in perpetual motion.

The Canadian government some time back charged a company for selling those add on devices with fraud.

They have also issued bulletins re the claims made about stuff added to gas tanks.

The BU family is actually grateful to you and your public spiritedness. This is one of those issues which the local consumer bodies should be taking up. Please let us know how the FTC responds.

What a lovely thread!

Hi Temopad, what a laugh! I could not help but laugh out loud.

I remember hearing of an incident during the civil rights days of yesteryear, where a black man in the south was reported missing. A few days later a body was pulled from the pier by the police. The man’s body was wrapped criss-crossed in chains from neck to feet.

The officer, in fishing him out remarked! “This negro attempted to steal more chain than he can carry.”

Only last week, Jane Wells; CNN correspondent reported from California on the Federal takeover of Indy Mac Bank. A man on the line was interviewed. He was there in an attempt to withdraw his $240,000 savings and cash and could not do so.

He stood to loose more than half his money; because everyone beside him understand the FDIC insures ONLY up to $100,000 per person. Let’s hope your investment is unadventurous.

The moral: People seeing the same thing, and having really different conclusions.

BU they are practicing a W alright;…..”Withhold”

Conspiracy theories are used by scam artists to deflect the truth when scientific evidence proves that their devices do not work.

People selling these water to gas devices claim that oil companies have successfully tried to suppress this technology. They even claim that the biggest proponent of this technology, Stanley Meyers, was murdered, even though the autopsy proved he died of a cerebral aneurysm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Meyer%27s_water_fuel_cell

Barbadians need to realise that if something sounds to good to be true, it almost always is.

As a people we can become bogged down in the past and therefore go nowhere fast, or we can learn from the past with a view to moving forward with a solution oriented approach. If the professor died under suspicious circumstances we suggest is not relevant to NOW. Barbadians need to build on on what body of work he left to protect the future of our country.

You made me laugh till I almost choked. Don’t believe for one moment that anyone murdered the Professor. I am surprised that he waited 60 years to commit suicide. Solar power has been used in Florida homes long before the professor
converted the Baje house from BL&P power to solar power. Ten years ago the startup kits were sold at 10,000 U.S. Even if the professor could have produced one for 10,000 Baje dollars very few of us could have afforded the switch.

Professor Oliver Headley spearheaded research into solar energy and as far as I recall before his untimely (and suapicious) death he and his associates had successfully converted a house in Barbados to use solar-generated electricity and even converted a car to do the same. Then he mysteriously committed suicide by hanging himself with a rope from his balcony on University Hill. Hogwash! The man was obviously murdered due to his REAL threat to the energy conglomerates.