You would not believe the number of times fleet maintenance managers have made the statement “It’s all just snake oil” - prior to actually evaluating our products.

So what exactly is “snake oil”? 

The dictionary defines “snake oil” as a derogatory term describing products that carry with them miraculous but unverifiable benefit claims. I am sure that some products would fit this description but not our line of effective fuel-saving Lubricating Technologies.

Unlike snake oil, all of our product claims have been verified both in the lab as well as in real life. Our performance lubricants are:

• Engineered for excellence
• Comprehensively lab and field tested 
• Typically formulated to exceed industry and OEM requirements
• Continuously improved by research to maintain leading edge performance 
• An unparalleled suite of synthetic lubricants for the most demanding applications

Because our benefits are verifiable and the data is available as part of comprehensive Evidence Manual the idea of being snake oil is easily and obviously overcome.

Our products have received EPA certification which stands them head and shoulders above most other products in this category. More than a million dollars in testing has resulted in fuel treatments that are guaranteed that what goes in your vehicle comes out without harm to the environment or your vehicle. Our products meet or exceed the society of automotive engineers standards for lubricating fluids bringing compliance with vehicle manufacturers recommendations.

We have conducted our testing for XenTx products at Southwest Research in San Antonio, Texas. SRI is the premier testing facility in the country with Ford maintaining its own Tier 1 testing facility at SRI as well as special facility in Ann Arbor that works with Tankcom. Southwest’s Fuels and Lubricants Research Division is internationally known for its fuels and lubricants research activities and continues to uphold the longstanding tradition of quality and client response, started more than 55 years ago. The Institute helps clients get automotive products to the market and keep them there in response to regulation and competition through a broad range of services including product qualification of automotive components and automotive fluids for on-road, off-road, rail, and water-borne transportation systems as well as recreational vehicles and stationary power equipment.

In addition to lab and field testing, XenTx has millions of miles of problem free highway and off road driving currently in thousands of trucks, cars, heavy equipment, boats, motorcycles, stand alone generators, garden equipment and agriculture.

There are many different testing methods to ensure that a product's benefit statements are accurate and trustworthy.

Dyno testing is one of the most common methods of performance testing. One such test  was recently conducted on a large CAT engine from a mining vehicle. A dynometer test demonstrated a 7% fuel economy improvement in just 5 hrs of testing. The bench mark was established at an average fuel consumption of 48.5 gallons per hour. At the completion of the testing period, fuel consumption decreased to 45.1 gallons per hour and average savings of 3.4 gallons per hour. In addition to fuel consumption, the dynometer testing demonstrated an improvement in RPMs. The testing also showed a decrease in the amount of horsepower required to perform the same work load, as well as a decrease in the required torque. We have conducted many Dyno tests over the past number of years and they consistently demonstrate benefits for our customers.

In addition to Dyno testing, we have taken advantage of onboard computers and satellite tracking systems to identify fuel enhancement and other benefits in trucks, tractors and other heavy equipment. For example, in a satellite tracking test with another piece of CAT equipment, we were able to see the actual results on period by period basis. The results of this test showed a decrease in the average amount of fuel consumed from 30.6 gallons per hour to 26.7. Over the 7 weeks that data was evaluated, we realized a 3.9 gallon per hour improvement utilizing the XenTx Engine Treatment.

MCM Demolition, one of the largest demolition companies in the country and based in the state of Michigan, allowed us to test XenTx Engine Treatment in some of their equipment. The utilization of XenTx resulted in a 12.5% average fuel economy improvement.

The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) test specification J1321 is the standard test procedure specifically addressing the operating conditions of long-haul truck fleets. In this test, the minimum test scope consists of a control truck and two test trucks with similar payloads driven in a baseline segment and a test segment.

A major national for-hire trucking firm based in Arizona initially tested XenTx using a multiple truck test over a period of weeks. They found no change in fuel economy - that is until they realized that between the time they ran the benchmark and they tested the trucks with XenTx, they began using winter fuel. Winter fuel typically causes a significant performance drop. What they realized was that no change was actually an improvement because of the different fuels used. As a result they retested the vehicles using the same fuels and realized a 10.9% improvement.

They have recently run a new set of J1321 tests and confirmed receiving positive results. What is interesting about J1321 test is that it is designed to fail the test product – so a good result here means a great result in the real world.

The fellow who worked for the previous company and oversaw the test procedure, shortly thereafter went to work for a Texas based firm. The mandate he was given by the company owner was to not only oversee the maintenance operations but to also help find fuel economizing opportunities for the fleet.

His first decision was to add XenTx to the regular maintenance of the trucks. Over the fleet of more than 1,000 vehicles averaging more than 10 million miles per month they averaged a 5.1% fuel economy improvement.

At this company they also went on to add other fuel saving adaptations including aero-dynamic hub caps and lessening the distance between the cab and the trailer which reduced wind drag and provided additional fuel saving benefit. In this case, XenTx was the important first step towards a regimen of fuel saving enhancements.

In addition to fuel saving benefits, XenTx provides many other benefits as well. These include significant decreases in soot and black smoke. This is a particularly significant problem with heavy equipment and yard trucks that don’t have opportunity to operate at highway speeds. As a result, they don’t heat up enough to burn fuel properly and incomplete burning results in black smoke and soot. The use of XenTx can effectively deal with these issues.

Although the history of the additive industry does not help to dispel the myth that “all additives are just snake oil,”  Green Performance Systems is committed to environmentally safe and performance proven products that work!

And be rest assured… No snakes were harmed in the manufacture of our products!

Lorne Shantz, CEO Green Performance Systems