hey,
I have always been skeptical of Dennis's years of claims that the
dealerships are worth a million. A few years ago, I reported about a
newsletter that warned that the dealerships could all be worthless
(predictably, the solution Dennis offered was to put more money into
another program to make the lost money back.). I was accused of
“interfering with economic relations for just quoting Dennis on this
warning.
The following is a really interesting legal declaration made under
penalty of perjury by Dennis made December of 2007 in case CL89623 from
a court in Iowa.
"Plaintiff is kicking a very dead dog. United Community Services has no
employees, owes approximately $100,000 of noncollectable debt to the
IRS, and it has no assets of any kind. It supplies no products or
services to any one, nor has it done so for well over a year. It is not
worth the time or energy or expense of putting it out of business"
Further in the same document, Dennis states: "I am 61 years old, I own
no real estate, stocks, bonds, trusts, . . . or any other tangible
asset." I am currently employed and take home a salary of $297.00 per
week. I don't own a car. I have no credit cards, and no credit."
More information on that case is found at
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=ia&vol=app%5C20041222%5C0\
3-1976&invol=1
That is interesting, he says he owns no stock - but what about the
ownership of companies like "BWT", "UCSA", "ITEC"? It also seems
interesting that Dutchman (which I have always suspected is just the
latest Dennis company name) would pay a promoter like Dennis only
minimum wage. It is also interesting that gung ho dealers are trying to
sell dealerships for 10's of thousands that Dennis says have sold
nothing for a year and owes over 100K.
By the way, we are coming up on the newest of a long line of broken
promises of free energy demonstrations. - July 10 2008 – the newest
promise is now July 10 of 2009 – so we can wait for that one to be
broken too.
Dennis's people have tried to claim the EPA is in the way of progress
by not testing the claimed 100mpg PICC modified car – but they told me a
month ago that no PICC application was made. My year worth of trying to
coax even one of the 1000's of claimed HAFC 50% increased mileage cars.
Dennis started promising high mileage and evading real demo's about 6
years ago.
as always, it will be interesting to see where all this goes,
Eric
BBB
of Eastern North Carolina Warns of Publishers Clearing House ...
Carolina Newswire (press release)
- NC,USA
Now they are advertising fuel savings devices called PICC
(Pre-Ignition Catalytic Converter) and the HAFC (Hydro Assist
Fuel
Cell). According to the company,
both are supposed to create a 50 percent increase in gas mileage. The
BBB requested independent substantiation of this claim. The company did
not respond. Seven Attorneys General have taken action against Dennis
Lee, one of the principals. This New Jersey company has an
unsatisfactory rating. Thanks to the Nashville, TN BBB for their
investigation. ...
my local fox channel did reports on many high mileage scams like the
"vortex cyclone" - a piece of
metal that goes in the air input - but it does no gain at all. My own
research first hand into EERUEL, an additive finds it does nothing - at
least for me. These scams go on for years with no real proof and often
suck people into MLM efforts that are in turn illegal.
This is what I have seen over the
past
four months, sorry the HAFC was not good, in fact so bad I quit, after
a lost/cost of around $20,000.00 invested.
I have worked on about 12 cars and only one had a unknown
defect.
The rest all were fine good running cars.
Many got good mileage at first but all have problems show up, some with
in a couple of days.
Three saw no improvement.
We got better mileage in two cars (32 to 43MPG) and Then got 71 MPG and
81 MPG up from 32 MPG stock on two other cars, and took two vans from
12 MPG to 19/20MPG.
BUT not one would hold it, all faded away with in a few days
to a
week and all got problems, like stuck idle motors (2), boiling water
and gunk in the motors,(4) two got plugged air filters, one HAFC blew
apart and sprayed chemical all over the engine.
One van is a 87 MiniVan and has no computer to fight us but it loses it
mileage with in a week and we have to clean and renew its water and
chemicals.
It seems we are cracking the chemical not the water.
Now I sure you will say I do not know what I am doing, perhaps, I was
trained by one of their best trainers and certified as a
trainer/teacher myself, and IF I did not know what I was doing how did
I get such high mileage's figures??
I quit the company when I saw all of the last cars: two vans and four
cars and the problems we were getting, two idle motors stuck, three
cars with idle problems, boiling water in one car, soft hoses, hoses
slipping off fittings, a car when it lost a hose and sprayed chemical
all over the engine, heard from a dealer melt downs was common, heard
from Mike Holler on a tech line call how someone had to buy a new
transmission when a HAFC leaked and ate a hole though the aluminum
case, blame was placed on installer, bet he did not know how soft the
crap hoses get at engine temps, might rethink the cause of that
failure...NO safety to cut power to cell if it runs dry, no way for car
to run right with a downed cell....
Lack of any instructions to add
bubblier...( now added I hear...)
I for one can not afford to buy someone a new motor after
this
system eats the motor. I sure can not afford to buy EVERYONE a new
motor...
I have been warning everyone I could with this email:
I will repeat this warning as often as needed. On any and all Hydro
systems:
There are two main risks: explosion and chemical damage to your engine.
Beware of any that call for lots of chemical, (KOH, NaOH (lye)) use
double bubblers to help catch any before going to your motor. It does
not stay in the tanks but can get into your motor as gas, I will post
pictures of a Bubblier that contains this gunk and how it coats the
walls to show you of this problem.
Feed gas below your air filter to let it be you last line of defense.
DO NOT use any of the wire and glass jar units.
What every unit you get if they do not tell you to control the main
relay with the Fuel Pump relay, be worried what else they did not tell
you correctly.
NEVER NEVER set it up to turn on any other way BUT so it comes on after
the motor is running and is turned off automatically with the motor.
I know of three cases where this was NOT done, one burst his air
cleaner, another broke his intake manifold and the third one was lucky
his battery was dead that morning as his ran as long as the battery was
able to power it, one spark and good by truck.
Many cells start making gas within seconds and it can fill the air
cleaner before you get started, add a slight misfire and BOOM.
NEVER NEVER hook it up to any engine vacuum.
The Fuel pump relay is the only way to go.
IF there is no fuel pump relay (like Toyota) use the oil presser sender.
I feel this is so important I will give the design away.
more and more people I have talked to who first waited months to
get HAFC and then have wasted months trying to get it to work are
starting to lose patience. I encourage these people to openly tell
their stories and insist on getting their money back.
12 years ago, I pointed out that false tech con men can scam for
decades by just every few years fading out of one promise while
diverting attention to a new one. My decade old page on how this works
is still very accurate at
http://www.phact.org/e/con_man.htm
a summary of past massive Dennis Lee failures include:
Brown’s Gas machines that I can’t find a single happy customer
who uses them to make money.
The CRD device – little more than a perpetual motion machine that
Dennis took around the country even though it was a known failure 10
years before he picked it up
The Fisher heat engine – again a free energy failure before he
started it and after he dropped it.
The GEET high mileage device – was a failure for 10 years before
Dennis got into it and unproven to this day.
The power wagon – a free electricity machine mounted on trailers
promised to save the country from Y2K power outages.
The King’s and Priests Kingdom Grant program – a program from
years back that only discredited churches duped into getting members to
sign into it.
The NUAF – a long failed program of a national union of families
that Dennis joined and left that has still to make any dent.
The road sealer program – I don’t think Dennis promotes this
anymore as the whole UCSA line has failed, I heard of nothing but
trouble from users.
I looked in old newsletters, 7 years ago, Dennis was taking money for
people to go to high mileage conversion classes and in all that time,
they have offered no independent validations to small town newspapers.
The excuse offered for the failures 7 years ago was that the evil
scheming oil companies changed the gas formula.
I have spent more than a year trying to find even one of the said
thousands of happy HAFC-high-mileage customers – both as myself out in
the open and through a few anonymous accounts. I have run into a
number of sincere people who have paid money and really want to find a
way to make it work – but as I follow them up month after month, they
appear strung along with promises along the line of “your car’s
computer is a little strange and the install you used is wrong, do this
and maybe it will work” – For all I know, all the HAFC people may think
they are part of a minority of people just having tune up delays. If
it can be made to work (which I doubt), it is certainly not a well
understood process and not worth all the bother and would take more
research by more experienced people before it could be sold in good
faith. There is a long history of urban legends of hydrogen generators
boosting mileage.
In an amazing example of gall, Dennis has been forced to admit the UCSA
dealerships are for a company with only $100 in the bank and much money
owed the government and no product sales, but still tries to convince
people the dealerships will soon be worth 300K. The million dollar ad
campaign (who thinks those investors will ever see that money again?)
casts a wide enough net to find people with no sense who somehow still
have a lot of money available to invest. Let me know if anyone can
find a patent number for the patent Dennis claims to have on HAFC. By
the way, Dennis is still unwilling to debate me in an open forum or
supply me with a list of “lies” he has claimed in court that I have
said about him.
At the Dennis conference in Newfoundland NJ last weekend, there were
hundreds of supporters - many cheered when one suggested I be
deported. Dennis tries to make these people that I have somehow
stopped them all from getting rich. Sorry, the laws of physics have
power not me. I am only one of many people with compassion on those
who have been for decades losing their time, money and credibility to
Dennis. I remember meeting the founder of the Christian TV station in
Pittsburg, Rev Russel Bixler. He had tears in his eyes as he explained
the worst mistake of his life was trusting and promoting Dennis.
Russel put me on the air to warn people of Dennis's scams at the
time. Russel was one of many people from all walks willing to help
their fellow man. Others have been media people, science people, fellow
engineers, anti-scam groups, skeptics, the BBB, the law enforcement
community, alternative energy researchers, etc - I have merely been at
it the longest and host the highest ranked web page (but most pages
haven't been updated in years). Next week, it will have been 12 years
since I saw my first Dennis show and after feeling guilty for laughing
at the suckers, vowed to do the moral thing to try to help them.
I have heard that many dealers are starting to understand how I am
their only friend and have tried to provide the info to help save them
from losing all their money. The people invested in HAFC are starting
to figure out it isn't getting them rich, claims like 100 manufacturers
of kits are suspect and everyone is just told that everyone but them
has gotten it to work. If you have been told false information to
convince you to hand over money - then you are a victim of fraud and
owe it to your fellow citizens to report the crime to the authorities
even if they are inept in prosecution. Or, consider that at least one
lawyer has been able to get money back for victims.
I have nicely been offering to be proven wrong concerning HAFC, no
independent confirmation has been allowed in over a year now - even
though Dennis has claimed thousands of happy customers. If they are
really shipping thousands of units - all they have to
do is agree to ship some only to people who agree to support at least
some
open confirmation. I've been in touch with many people who have been
patiently trying for months to get HAFC working - they keep hoping some
coming adjustment or part will make it work.
I close with a recent post from another person who has also been
trying to find any evidence that HAFC would work:
We all know that every HAFC/PICC webpage is just about
identical...
this is very common in B.S. LMM scams. I am sure you
will
recall this test from the top of the page where it discusses the
incredible 9X better mileage. Someone much smarter than me helped
break it down.
It's actually kind of funny.... OK I laughed my ass off.
"A Dodge van (of the type that would have a 318) is about 6000 lbs.
Rolling resistance of radial tires is about .013%, so at 65, it
requires 13.52 hp to overcome this resistance. The coefficient of
aero drag for the typical van is .45, and the frontal area is about
36 sq ft (about 6' x 6'). This is actually conservative, because I am
ignoring the contribution to frontal area from the tires. At 65, this
works out to 30.62 hp required to overcome aero drag. If you add
these, it means that a Dodge van would require 44.14 hp to do 65 on a
perfectly level road. (For a reality check, that would mean about 22
lb fuel per hour, which is 3.38 gallons to go 65 miles, or 19.2 mpg --
pretty close to right on the money.)
The killer is the grade, which, at 30 degrees is staggeringly steep.
That's a 57.7 % grade. That requires 600.8 hp to climb at 65 mph. So
the total required hp is 645. That's three times what you can
reasonably expect from a 318 installed in a van. BUT... making it
more ridiculous yet... they claim that this figure is just 50% power,
so this engine would have to be capable of producing just under 1300
hp.
The video for the PICC features Lee in several shots. The script, if
you follow engines, combustion engineering, physics, etc. is almost a
comedy: there is just one ludicrous statement after another. As you
may know, a heat engine can only work if the stuff going in is cooler
than the stuff coming out. So converting fuel into a blazing hot
plasma before it goes into the engine would render the engine
completely non-functional. They hope that by throwing in so much BS,
people will say: "Wow sounds really technical... they must know what
they are doing." Sadly the strategy works."
I have researched built and played with all this stuff for quite a
while and i do know for a fact that if done right it can help a bit.
Does anyone care to show off there 50% or better system???
I dont want to be a d!c%, I just feel its time to enter the realm of
reality and truth.
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I recall hearing about a mass demonstration of free energy where they
were going to rent out 25 football stadiums and prove to the world
that the magnet motor works. This was to be in July 2008 as I recall.
Did anything ever come of this? Were any of the demos held at all?
Curious...
Still no real proof at all that Ford has any official dealing with
Dennis Lee's Dutchman corporation, in this case wait to hear it from
Ford before believing.
I was on an episode of "Energy Freedom Fighters" being interviewed and
lauded for my work
exposing some of the many energy scammers - you can hear me talk about
Lee and what motivates
me to speak out: http://www.bestrateofclimb.com/EFF-Episode37.MP3
The following web site is calling HAFC a scam: http://www.texassolar.com/
The following site calling HAFC a scam, says "As I mentioned
earlier, sloppy reporting and fly-by-night websites
promote products like the Hydro Assist Fuel Cell, leading people to
think they’re purchasing fuel cells, when in fact they’re not." http://www.fuelcellinsider.org/2008/08/when-a-fuel-cell-isn%E2%80%99t-a-fuel-cell/ People have told me that the cutting and
modification of an engine for HAFC is a violation of the car's warrenty
as well as an EPA violation, but I'm not an expert in those things to
really know for sure. I still after 12 years would love to debate him
on the air if he were not afraid - I also still ask him for his list of
"lies" he says I have said. Why not list them openly?
For people who have invested in dealerships based on false information
or people being strung along on non-working kits - the thing to do is
file a report with your own states consumer protection services- look
em up from http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Crime/Law_Enforcement/Attorneys_General/U_S__States/
and don't forget to also inform Lee's state's AG of any wrong doing at http://www.nj.gov/oag/ca/contactinfo.htm
Someone at a Dennis Lee special meeting for prospective new dealers
said that none of the people he knew of being heavily solicited to buy
100,000$ dealerships actually was convinced. I do know of someone
looking to sell a lot cheaper than that if anyone is interested.
The Ford involvement claim reminds me how a con man by the name of
Carl Tilley got millions of
investment dollars for an electric car said to recharge it's own
batteries would constantly calm down impatient investors with the
promise he had a big deal coming though with GM. Lee's former high
mileage mentor, convict Paul Pantone also would frequent drop names of
big companies trying to buy into his technology. A lot of people who
have put up big money to do the HAFC ads, train installers or set up
manufacturing are getting very impatient that either the kits don't
arrive or can't be made to work. I keep negotiating with people to be
proven wrong by a real demo - but they stop communicating before
setting up a time and place. I recommend videoing and putting on
youtube the magic moment of me getting out of a hafc car that has just
been driven 50 miles and then at the pump seeing how many gallons it
took to top off again. - this would be an easy test to run - why would
Dennis who complains about conspiracies to cover up high mileage not
allow a simple test that would potentially prove him right and me wrong?
I close with an email update from a dealer who seems to buy the
"Ford distraction away from the fact that most HAFC installs don't
work:"
Subject: * Ford Motor Company may be joining Dutchman Enterprises...
EnergyEmpire.com *
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:08:42 -0400
Hello
Ford Motor Company may be joining Dutchman Enterprises in partnering
together to advance the HAFC and the PICC
technologies�
Hello from Dutchman Enterprises,
We appreciate your having taken the time at some time in the past to
request a quote for a PICC for one or more vehicles(s).
We were concerned about EPA issues with the technology originally, but
we have re-designed around those considerations
and we are no longer concerned about our special catalytic converter
qualifying with the EPA. With gas prices rising as
they have, other large interests have been looking for solutions to
some of their problems and we have discovered a
common interest in helping the American car manufacturers get back to
doing what they do best� make the kind of vehicles
Americans want. The door has opened for us to better serve the American
consumers. We have some extremely important news.
Ford and Dutchman have been talking and Ford finally gave permission
for Dutchman to tell the public what is going on.
This last weekend, a Ford executive spent several hours speaking to the
dealers involved in distributing the Dutchman
Enterprises automotive technologies at their annual dealers convention.
Dutchman Enterprises can now announce that the
initial meeting with representatives of Ford Motor Company went very
well and both parties are excited about testing the
HAFC and PICC and for the potential of improving fuel economy for
American automobiles. The initial reaction of the Ford
team involved was excitement and enthusiasm over the potential of both
the HAFC and the PICC. Discussions have begun about both companies
partnering together to further develop these technologies.
Dutchman Enterprises received a letter from the engineer that is
heading up the Ford team to test the HAFC. In that letter
from Corporate Headquarters in Dearborn Michigan, the leading engineer
wrote, �the (HAFC) concept makes good sense.�
There have been critics at large who have challenged the idea of water
gas and called it a scam technology, but one has to
consider the fact that no one knows more about automobiles and what
makes sense relating to them than the engineers who
design and build them. This same engineer, in the same letter, wrote,
�We are also excited about the potential of the PICC
technology.� Ford is discussing getting involved because these
technologies make sense. Their testing is supposed to be over
on or around October 1st, and the executive that addressed the dealers
gave everyone the impression it was going well.
They have even asked for more units and that is a good sign.Mr. Alan
Mulally, CEO of Ford Motor Company, was interviewed on CNBC on the 12th
of September, and he told the reporter that there are some interesting
things happening in the
alternative fuels area. He said, �Hydrogen technologies, involving
water, offer some incredible opportunities to do
something with the engines we already have.� That is not a statement
about regular Hydrogen Fuel Cells, which do not
operate with current engines. It is reasonable to assume he is talking
about water gas injection and the Hydro-Assist
Fuel Cells, which his people are currently testing.Of course, Dutchman
Enterprises is excited about the prospects
of partnering with Ford Motor Company and their thousands of Ford
dealers all across the USA and throughout the world.
Not to mention the engineering and research prospects for developing
the PICC to it�s full potential. It is not hard
to see why Ford would want to be able to get 50% (or even 30%) better
mileage out of their existing SUVs and Pickup trucks.
It could save the US auto industry to be able to develop the PICC
within a year or so to be able to get 100 miles per gallon
or better (city and highway) with future SUVs and Pickups. Both of
these technologies have world wide patent protection
owned by Dutchman Enterprises.
What does this mean to you? It is time to seriously consider getting
your HAFC kit on order NOW. The Ford executive
mentioned that he thought our prices were too low and that they should
be double what we are currently charging. I guess
he is right, because we were charging the same price we currently
charge for the kit when gas prices were half what
they are now. When Ford comes in that will most likely change. The
demand will also go through the roof! Just to
modify the Ford vehicles will involve 60 million cars. A word to the
wise, get your HAFC on order. The PICC will
most likely not be on the market for another year or so. Ford will want
to develop it with new car designs in mind,
while Dutchman Enterprises will absolutely insist on an after market
version as well, but that will delay it for
well over a year down the road. In the meantime, can there be any doubt
now that the concept of the HAFC is sound and
can improve fuel economy? You have the benefit of being able to get a
little ahead of the curve while the price is half
what it will be and while there is not a waiting list as long as the
gas lines in the 70s.
One report we recently read made the point that by merely increasing
the mileage of vehicles in America by a mere 30% we could eliminate our
need for ANY of the middle Eastern oil! Can you imagine what we can do
for America and American car
manufacturers just by installing the HAFC kits now? When Ford joins us,
we will be able to put a LOT of people back to work and stop this
fossil fuels insanity. With their help, our PICC will be all that it
can be, and all American car
manufacturers can get us all the cars and pickup trucks we want with no
concern for fuel costs or pollution. This is the answer we are all
looking for. Thank you for your support in this.
Please be advise that a slight increase of the HAFC will be in effect
starting October 1, 2008. From $1,020 to $1,075.
Manufacturing is now going great in the US. Delivery time is between 2
to 4 weeks easy. For people in Canada, 6 manufacturers are working on
being approved by Dutchman to start production.
I just wanted to say that during information
searching on this "new" HAFC crap I found more fact on your site then
anywhere else and I have done a lot of research. I was somewhat forced
to install one of these systems as a pilot program at our company, I
objected because the science made no sense to me. I am no chemist but I
am a hell of a OBD2 tech so I went looking for the science behind it
and all I found was BS and Dennis making a ass out of himself in some
videos that made no sense at all.
One thing I haven't seen on any site is the
question, that if big oil and the government are the enemy for
suppressing all the free energy devices, what makes Dennis Lee any
better by refusing independent testing, missing scheduled release dates
and basically keeping all his great ideas that god gave him to himself
and his few select dealers? Afraid of being taken out by big oil? Get
one of his followers to drive one of theses miracle cars to any
university
At a time when folks have to decide whether to
pay their energy bills or get their medication, food or other needs
that make Lee in about the same category as Hitler or Hussein..... if
of course any of his crap worked.
So this HAFC crap is installed (without any
deviation at all from the instructions and the comic videos) on a 2005
4cyl pickup, before install 17.2 mpg, after 15.3, big damn increase. Of
course this means I did something wrong but if you try to tell a
fanatic that there is only so far you can push a OBD2 computer they
just light up and say it's because big oil programs them...
"only 20% of gasoline is burned in the engine"
are people really this stupid?
A dozen years ago, Dennis had promised since he then had enough
support,
he would start installing heat based free energy machines the same
year. Of
course he held tight to his then long tradition of not doing that. But
he distracted
people with a few other never-to-be-done promises: He promised he would
deliver a system using browns gas to neutralize radioactive materials.
And he
bought a lot of low quality browns gas machines from the Chinese arms
manufacturer, Norinco and convinced people they would get rich
reselling the
machines to welding shops. I was unable to find a single happy machine
shop
using those machines to do useful work. They were not made for our
voltage, poorly
wired, used dangerous chemicals and would break down frequently. It
now
seems the little browns gas machines in the HAFC are not too much
better,
there are many reports of people taking months and still failing to get
HAFC
working on their cars.
Lee now claims that because dealers used the Ford logo on web sites
that Ford
may have backed out of the deal to use HAFC. Of course we skeptics
greatly
doubted Lee's claim from months ago that Ford was interested in using
HAFC.
Many HAFC web sites still carry the claim Ford is testing a dozen HFAC
kits.
As the following other email list shows, many people didn't believe
Lee's
claim that Ford said Dutchman could say there was a business
relationship.
The following was sent to me by some of the people who managed to get
a
report straight from Ford:
Thank you for contacting the Ford Motor Company Customer Relationship
Center
regarding our business relationship with Dutchman Enterprises.
Ford Motor Company has no relationship with Dutchman Enterprises or
with any
of Dutchman's agents, employees or distributors. Ford does not recognize
technical merit in the Hydro-Assist Fuel Cell (HAFC) or Pre-Ignition
Catalytic Converter (PICC) systems.
If you have any other inquiries, please feel free to contact us and we
will
be happy to address them for you.
Sometimes e-mail communication does not allow us to gain additional
information that may be helpful in responding to your inquiry. Should
you
feel that we have not adequately addressed your questions, please feel
free
to contact us via telephone at (800)392-3673.
Sincerely,
Christie
Customer Relationship Center
Ford Motor Company
For online support visit us at: www.customersaskford.com
which contains
answers to frequently asked questions and links to other key product and
service information.
The following is some discussion on an email list Lee's people don't
control about
building frustration with HAFC (I wonder what the people who paid 100's
of
thousands for the full page ads are thinking about now). In the
following email,
a guy who got burned adds commentary in red
to a message from Lee:
The relationship between Ford Motor Company and
Dutchman, in which Ford was testing the HAFC, has been broken.
Interestingly enough, we did pass the phase one testing, we just could
not pass the test of being patient and waiting for their due diligence
before demanding an outright endorsement from them.
(And whos fault is that Mr. Big Mouth, if you had not said anything no
one could have screwe up the deal...) I guess having them
testing and working on possibly having an eventual partnership was not
good enough for some of our people.(See above) In
violation of what we had agreed to, dealers, mechanics, and recruiters
(members from all three groups) called Ford to confirm the
relationship, and one mechanic even DEMANDED a report on the testing. (OH Yes we did not beleive you ....)Some of our
dealers had to tell Ford how incompetent and unprofessional we are.
(How unprofessional is that?) (Truth will get out....)Ford
was prepared for the media; it was our associates they were not ready
for. And, there is no way they would ever have been prepared to have
their holy grail logo put at the top of the letter that I wrote to our
customers. (Again whos the Big Mouth????)Of
course everyone at Ford was concerned about that. (Totaly
understandable when it is a LIE.)That abuse of their logo was
the straw that broke their backs. (No your back)They
were willing to fight the media. Toyota sponsored a movie on how Ford
stole the intermittent wiper blade that is out now and their stock is
under $4 a share. The media is telling everyone Ford credit has no
money to loan people for cars when they have tons of it. Supposedly
Ford is broke when they could go for more than a year with no income.
The timing for another PR problem is terrible. The last thing Mulally
needs now is a public scandal. They will need the Ford family now more
than ever and someone just violated their holy grail which gave his
internal opposition lots of ammo. Hey, guys, we tried! (To lie and am now lieing to try to get out of being
cought in a lie...)
What do we tell everyone happened at Ford and how do
we get the credibility to go forward in a strong manner from here? We
just tell them that Ford Motor Company saw the potential of our
contribution to the current situation that American car manufacturers
find themselves in. (Hope someone tells Ford
that they are still being lied about...)If someone does not find
a way to make the bigger cars more efficient they will be relegated to
building the little ones that they make no profit building. The opinion
of Ford was that if the HAFC could even save 30% or more it could help
them immeasurably in getting value back into their SUVs and Pickup
trucks. The fact of the matter is that Ford did NOT pull out because of
the testing. Wee did, in fact, pass the phase one testing. They pulled
out because of the harassment. Obviously Ford saw value in the HAFC
concept.
Here are the facts:
Ford reviewed our technology BEFORE they ever
decided to test it. (On sure...)
We modified three vehicles for them as part of their
original diligence and they
were very gracious to answer all of our questions
about Ford emissions control.
In August we got a letter from a top engineer at
Ford HQ that stated his belief that
the HAFC concept make good sense. (NOW if it only worked...)
We supplied them with dozens of kits for testing and
they had engineers on them
For at least 6 weeks night and day 24X7 costing Ford
a small fortune. (Lucky you...)
They asked for parts and covalizer several times
over those 6 weeks.
We had an executive from Ford (a month later) on
September 13th spend over two hours speaking to
our dealer convention and answering our dealers’ questions.
He spoke very positively about
our project and their interests in a potential
partnership between Ford and
Dutchman. (Note again NO NAME)
Our contact told us the testing
was going well several times, and even gave us
a couple of hints they had told
him on how we could improve our system. (Yes get
it to really work)
They told the public they do not
discuss test projects when asked about us. (Which
you should have done Big Mouth...)
Then the movie came out, the
media has been telling people they are broke, and,
worst of all for us, our dealer put the Ford logo on the top of a
letter I wrote and made it look like a letter
from them, that most likely hit a lot of their departments at once, and
it all came undone.
(Oh god how many
time will I say it...you should have kept it to your self Bug
Mouth...IF it was real...)
There will be some people who do
not realize that all this is an endorsement. (You
never said so or said not to talk about it FOOL!!!)
Those people will say the system
failed, or that Ford never really was involved
There are almost a thousand
dealers and associates who attended the convention
They met the Ford executive and
heard everything he had to say. AND his name
is???
We do have a letter from one of
their top engineers. We are on a non-disclosure
agreement not to reveal who. Good cover...lie
We did ship lots of kits and
other merchandise to Ford But did they order
them??
Toyota is building their own HHO
system for the after market right now. How it
works unlike yours.
We may not have gotten to a
partnership, but we certainly did convince one of the
Top car manufacturers in the
world that there is something to the HAFC!!! Yes
Bullshit
.
But there is life for us after
Ford. Where do we go from here? We go back forty yards and punt. We
still have a much improved HAFC system that works and even more people
who know how to work it. We are not impeded in our efforts to put out
the PICC as soon as that is practical to do. Our last test showed all
zeros on a five gas analyzer and the oxygen coming out of the exhaust
was 3% higher than the oxygen content in the room it was running in. (Next time test it running...)We will not have
to wait if Ford is not in the picture. There is no reason why we will
not be upgrading HAFCs still within this year! We have built our kit
production up incredibly.(OH and with a 60%
failure rate from the home base makers you suckered in?? And with their
much delaied parts shippments?? I know of two shops still waiting for
the parts..) We have learned a lot about the computer controls
over the last year. We are setting up a Dutchman HAFC research facility
and a dozen bays to modify
cars in. Our master training
program is being updated to the latest and greatest we have to teach.
We have scores of fleet sales I have been holding off on. One of the
problems we have always had has been that our mechanics, who we train,
cannot get product (kits) immediately upon leaving the training
excited. We built kit production up so much in anticipation of the
credibility of the Ford deal, that we have a lot of inventory on the
shelf right now. If you want a hundred kits right now where do you want
them? Want a thousand? Give me three weeks. That is good news for
mechanics and dealers. (I give up too many lies
to go after...)
The new October Fest Master
training program is dyno…mite! It has all the things we have learned in
the field. We are meeting with someone who will be able to really step
up the production of the Optimizers. They will have the ability of
making as many as 10,000 a day! When sales exceed that number, we will
have retail sales of over ten million dollars a day and there is no
doubt bankers will fund our production at just about any level. We have
solved the solenoid and magnet supply problems, so we are actually in
great shape to make it happen… unless it does not happen and then we
would have a far different problem than we have ever experienced. We do
not even want to think about that possibility. With the pending fleet
sales our dealers have been working on we are not too concerned about
that. But, we need to get busy and do this based upon the fact that our
system really works, and we are training more mechanics that "get it"
every day. ! (I give up too many lies to go
after...)
Our PICC research is netting
some incredible results. The portable four cylinder "proof of concept"
engine has demonstrated an obvious advantage already. Recently, we ran
it in a room after testing the oxygen content (in parts per million) of
the air in the room. We also have a five gas analyzer to test the
pollutants in the exhaust. We measured all gas contamination levels and
there was ZERO hydrocarbons!… ZERO NOX!…ZERO carbon monoxide!… and MOST
amazingly, there was ZERO carbon dioxide! As if the fact that there was
NO pollution with a four cylinder engine running in a closed room, is
not enough, the oxygen content in the exhaust stream was 22.7%!!! In
fact, we were putting more oxygen into the room than it had when we
started by almost an additional 5%! You can imagine how efficient the
engine was. Ford could easily regret missing out on the PICC
technology. Perhaps they will come to their senses. (I give up too many lies to go after...)
We are also busy lining up
manufacturers now in every country of the world. We have started an
Asian field and have a connection to work on the African continent
already. We are going to try to set up a sales effort for Europe soon
and hope to do the same in South America. We already plan for 100
manufacturers in the USA. We have half of them now. We will soon get
the other half. We will try to keep all manufacturing for any region of
the country exclusively within that region. I think we are well on our
way. How many cars are there in the USA (300 million.) Does Dutchman
guarantee a 50% increase in fuel economy? How many of those car owners
want that? What is the cost to modify a car? Could at least half the
people who are in that block of car owners afford it? Then who needs
Ford? (I give up too many lies to go after...)
-------- Original Message --------
Subject:
[hafcpicc] Re: You have received an important Message!
Ford has absolutely no ties or business with Dutchman other than an
investigation into the sham company as a result of the BS that Dennis
Lee felt he needed to spew out about it. Keep a look out for more on
Dutchman in the public and press. I have a sneaking suspicion that
they will be closing up shop soon. At least with this scam...
To all who do have this installed on there vehicles or have installed
on others. If you have a working kit installed, now is a good time to
contact the press. If you have been chasing your ass and wallet for
the last year, now is a good time to get to the press as well. You
dont want to be part of this when it falls.
Good luck and God Bless to all.
Guys,
I can tell you with 100% certainty that the HAFC is not a scam.
Why? Because I was skeptical too and I thought I would test their
concepts on an old beater Jeep of mine. I built my own system that
nearly replicates everything they do. 2 LPM of hydroxy gas, a fuel
pre-heater and ionizer, ECU tuning by means of MAP, O2, IAT and CTS
sensors. It works! 61% better mileage. Measured MPG by driving 40
miles in a loop at 65MPH and topping off at the same pump. I'm still
wondering why Lee would stall for so long on the free electricity
thing if he really has it but I can tell you without any doubt that
the HAFC concept is real. Their mileage improvement claims seem a bit
crazy (100 MPG?)but there's definitely some truth to the HAFC
improving economy. Am I damaging my engine? Doesn't seem like it.
Engine is quieter and seems to have much more power than before the
conversion. A stripping down of the components might say otherwise but
for now I have to side with Lee on this one.
I followed up the Jeep owner who posted "The HAFC is not a
scam!". I tried to arrange for the first ever independent HAFC
validation with him but he left it as he needs more time to get it
working again. Hey, I'll always be ready to be proven wrong if anyone
ever has a running car. For a dozen years now, I have been hearing
technical problems as a last minute excuse to not do high mileage tests
from all different kinds of high mileage tinkerers. You'd think that
just one of Lee's thousands of happy customers would be willing to do
the first open test. For that matter, just direct news from these
people should get business faster than their millions of dollars of
suspicious looking full page ads.
It is amazing that Dennis got followers to believe that Ford won't
save their company with HAFC from current likely doom because they are
mad a dealer posted their logo. Ford people told me they never did any
work with Dutchman.
To people who have lost big time money from Lee based on promises they
feel are false, I recommend you contact the following really skilled
lawyer, bjohnson@... who
has had success recovering money for a Dennis victim. This lawyer over
came the following pathetic pleading by Dennis claiming to have no
money for settlement: http://www.phact.org/e/z/DennisLeeBrokeAffidavit.pdf
In some states, the statute of limitations on fraud is quite long -
can't hurt to check it out.
Dennis's legal case against me is still going since 2004 and he has
yet to list a single "lie" on my part or submit to our sides discovery
requests. I believe I will eventually be able to convince the court
that this whole charade is just his using the federal court system to
try to deprive me of my constitutional right of free speech.
I
look forward to talking about some of the larger free energy scams, the
effort to silence me and some areas that I think at least hold more
promise than others. I encourage people to use the call-In Lines Toll
Free U.S. & Canada
1-888-235-7374
Dennis has long been afraid to debate me in a public forum - my offer
is still open, I would be happy to debate in any forum with him. The
closest we ever came was when I had a radio show for a while, he talked
but only giving a statement at the very end of the show it couldn't be
back and forth.
So far in 4 years of legal BS from Dennis, I haven't gotten him to
provide a list of statements in my pages that he feels are "lies".
This is a patent
from Daniel Huffman that was recently issued on what has been called
HAFC. . According to Dan (and he sent me a lot of documents I will
post soon), Dennis is a snake and a liar.
I have been trying to help people get money back from Dennis Lee and
some of his dealers for years. I've known of people having trouble
getting refunds for HAFC, the following is an email from someone who at
least did finally get his money back using the following email:
Here
is the letter I wrote to Dennis Lee and Bill _____ I sent it by
snail mail. There is no way you can send an email to Dennis Lee and
Bill wouldn't answer anyway.
"I am unhappy with your (water gas) product. I've spent
all kinds
of time and money on it. I can not find any of your trained
mechanics. There are none available! My car dealer doesn't want
anything to do with it. This unit does not live up to any worthwhile
saving on gasoline consumption. I want permission to return it to you
for a full refund. No, it isn't like new. There isn't anyway to
install this unit, run it, take it apart trying to find why is doesn't
work as represented, and keep like new. I think it is mostly hype or
out right lies that your water gas unit makes 50% more gasoline
savings. My car is not the problem. It is still under factory
warranty. Now the question is, would you want this unit back? Issuing
a full refund of my money to me? Or should I offer it to every
Attorney General in the nation? I am demanding to be made whole, with
a full refund of $1099. I paid with check number ____, dated ____,
2008 in ten business days or less."
then I gave him the invoice ID and order ID number.
_____-
if you see my page at http://phact.org/e/z/pilot_lee.htm#bergen
it says the following, "Had UCS investors bothered to inquire about
Dennis Lee at the Bergen County Courthouse, they might have been more
wary. Sever indictments against Dennis Lee for obtaining money under
false pretenses and passing bad checks have been on file since 1975.
As owner of a home improvement business in Fair Lawn, Old World
Builders, Lee accepted large down payments for home repairs - then
failed to do the work. In November 1975, after pleading guilty to five
counts of passing bad checks, he was brought into court again, and he
pleaded guilty to taking money under false pretenses. He told the
judge he had never intended to do the home repair work he had
promised. After spending a night in jail, Lee received a one-year
suspended jail sentence and was placed on probation for three years."
best wishes in 2009 - we will find out together Dennis's future excuse
to not demo as promised in July of this year in stadiums.
if you see the HAFC video promoted all over the internet. There are a
number of science mistakes made - most of which Lee has known to be
wrong for years:
water is HOH and is electrolyzed into HHO - no,
when you
electrolyze water you get 2 separate molecules of gas, H2 and O2 -
twice as much of the first as the last. And it is all mixed together
in a combustible explosive combination. Lee is very wrong to claim the
produced gas is water.
The water torch sublimates tungsten - no, the presence
of a great
amount of O2 in the gas which is in great supply at the early part of
the flame just oxidizes the tungstun (doesn't even melt it ) creating a
salt. The temperature of the water gas flame is not that hot.
The magnet ionizes the fuel - magnets don't ionize
things,
ionization means outer shell of electrons stripped off. Magnets have
been part of fraudulent ineffective high mileage scams for years.
we are creating a plasma - a plasma is a 4
state of matter involving ionized
gas at thousands of degrees.- The HAFC is not capable of creating plasma
Other things he should have admitted during the video:
his high mileage claims since 2001 have been utter money wasting
disasters
Lee is banned from selling any product in a number of states
even many people who have claimed it works later admitted it
stopped working
people rated to tune it in may be located a 6 hour drive or more
away
people have had trouble getting money back after returning the
units.
electrolyzed water is an explosive gas that could damage the
engine compartment
Lee mentions having a research site in Michigan but doesn't
mention that the independent company at this site that invented most of
the HAFC now claims Lee is a crook.
here is a company with only a little more credibility selling mileage
solutions: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212902652
The company claiming to have tested it did not respond to me. I
recommend that people take these with a grain of salt until there is
credible independent confirmation.
I close with the following email Anita told me I can pass along:
>
I have read many posts that you have left on the Internet. To bad I
did
not do all the research before I bought this HAFC piece of crap.
Or
looked up Dennis Lee in the BBB if I had I would not ever of
bought
it. I read about this product in popular science, they must
not
do much research before they publish things either. After
spending
allot more money on this product than I care to admit I
haven't
found anyway to try to correct the problem. I filed a
complaint
with the BBB they have transferred the case back and forth
to 3
different states, now i am sure that is not going to go
anywhere.
I bought this item back in March, received it the end of
May.
Our local mechanic of 25 years and my husband who was a mechanic
in
the Navy after 4 days finally got it put on. First test run was
great.
After that everything went down hill. The end of July JeffOtto
found
us a certified installer in AZ. we live in Idaho and this was
the
closest he could find to us that was excepting new customers.
Well
after what we already had in it we went ahead and took it to AZ.
After
5 days in a motel with no car the installer got it reinstalled
and
tuned and it only too cost another $600.00 and even then we never
saw
the gas savings. We were pretty sick over it. In August our truck
got
to the point where it almost would not start. We removed the unit
and
our truck would start again. I called the installer and asked
what
I could do with the unit and get this, he told me to try to sell
it on
ebay. What a Joke. Then last month our truck started running
bad
again. Now its been over at the Ford garage for 3 weeks and they
are
not sure what the problem is after talking to the ford garage
today
they had one more thing to try before they peg it to an
electrical
problem. Of course if they have to open up the wiring
harness
on the truck, bamm our warranty will be shot because a lot of
the
wires have been tapped into, even though everything has been
soldered
back. This thing has been a nightmare. All I can do is chalk
it up
to a learning experience I don't think there is anyway to sue
this
kind of a person and get anywhere. But all the crap you have
been
through with them and just keep trying to let people know what
scams
he has done might help this from happening to someone else. I
admire
you for your persistence. Thanks, Anita !
I have gotten a
number of such emails from people about nightmare experiences with
HAFC. My open offer to be part of an open unbiased proper test of
HAFC has continued to be ignored by scores of promoters.
I post Lee's early legal response. http://www.phact.org/e/LeeDefenseFTCcase.pdf
he has names in there of people said to get the high mileage - One
person on the list, Rick Brancadora is listed as getting 104 mpg for
his Honda Accord - I emailed him an offer to pay him $3000 if he can
show me it even getting doubled mileage - no response. Come on -
anyone I've met who has solar heating or an electric car won't shut up
if you ask them to show you. If there was real proof it works, I'd
change sides in a minute.
Here is a story about Dennis's number one HAFC installer-trainer, Sam
Burlum http://knighttakesrook.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html
The blog quote is "Flames engulfed an Extreme Scapes truck on
Wednesday, May 30th, sending
its driver, Samuel Burlum, out and into the street until assistance
came to extinguish the fireball."
Dennis's legal team did manage to overturn the restraining order and
the order to freeze his assets (I believe some of the info will be
found to be dead wrong) - as the following Dennis supporter posts to
this list: - my comments follow
From:
"shadowlooking" <shadowlooking@...> Date:
Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:25 pm Subject:
Eric Krieg and the FTC lose in Court against Dennis Lee
This was a set back for the FTC that the TEMPORARY restraining
order got lifted - It was certainly not a closure of actions against
Lee and Dutchman. The FTC filing for yesterday in the case said there
was not a proper transcription of the proceedings when the FTC expert
didn't do so well - therefore, for the FTC to make a rebuttal to the
judgment, there needs to be a do over for that meeting. I would think
by then, the FTC will figure out at least some of the many errors in
Lee's filing. Hopefully they can bring in an automotive expert who can
debunk nonsense like "80% of fuel is unburnt" This case is far from
over.
I encourage all people who feel they were convinced by false
information to give money to Lee to contact the FTC: Joshua S. Millard 202-326-2454 and Malini Mithal
202-326-2972 I believe they can prosecute and attempt to recover
money for people who had non-working HAFC kits as well as people who
bought dealerships or put money into the ad buy program. Can't hurt
to call and find out.
should be interesting to see this case go down - I hope it scares off
some of the lessor companies also doing high mileage scams.
But I easily found that 4 of the people said to get near doubled
mileage say they got no improvement and are still trying to get their
money
back. One who had 3 cars modified said that one car doesn't even run
now. I wonder what the judge will say when he figures out he was
tricked.
I recommend that anyone who gave Dennis money
based on false claims (be it kit buyers, dealers, trainers, mechanics
or ad buy people) to talk to the FTC. There is a long federal statute
of limitations for fraud. The FTC (who is going ahead full against Lee
and company) in the past has been able to get money back for victims of
fraud. - the best FTC contact is Josh Millard (202) 326-2454,
jmillard@... You could try the lame NJ consumer fraud people at (973)
504-6200 and/or your own states AG from: http://www.naag.org/ag/full_ag_table.php
To people who say that HAFC works, convince one of the happy customers
to show me real first hand proof and I will give you each $1000, post
the results on my web page, change sides and go to bat with the FTC to
try to convince them to call off the suit.
There was a reference on the hotline to a California dealers how has 50
returned kits. Someone told Dennis on the hotline that only about 20%
of the
HAFC purchasers have gotten it to work. Dennis has discouraged people
from arranging proper independent demonstrations of HAFC.
I came up with some possible excuses Lee could use about HAFC not
working before moving on to the next tech scam:
God told me HAFC won't work until more people pay me
more money.
MIB's secretly sabataged cars of the thousands of
happy customers
I can't show proof or they will put me in jail
I close with a copy of the Star Ledger article:
Device maker has a flair for drumming up business and scorn
The charismatic 62-year-old from Passaic County has traveled America
for decades, hawking inventions at convention centers, hotel ballrooms
and sun-drenched state fairs. Delivering his folksy pitch in a suit and
tie, Lee invokes Scripture while he accuses Washington of suppressing
innovation to protect big oil companies.
Renee
ByerDennis
Lee pitches an invention, a "free electricity machine," at a Portland,
Ore., high school in 1999. Lee declined recent requests to photograph
him.
Authorities describe him as a cross between P.T.
Barnum and Jimmy Swaggert, a convicted felon who has touted fertilizer
that grows 17-foot-tall corn and engines that run on pickle juice and
soda pop.
Now, after years of taking lumps from skeptics and consumer-affairs
investigators, Lee is fending off accusations from the federal
government. In January, the Federal Trade Commission filed suit in New
Jersey, accusing Lee of making false claims about his latest device,
which sells for $1,000 and purports to "turn any vehicle into a hybrid."
"He is the epitome of a snake oil salesman," said Jack Zurlini Jr.,
an assistant attorney general from Washington, one of at lease nine
states that have charged Lee with violating consumer protection laws.
Lee sat recently in U.S. District Court in Newark, wearing a baggy
suit, accented by a broad yellow tie and matching handkerchief. His
graying brown hair was combed back, and his beard was trim.
Lee scribbled notes on a yellow pad as his lawyer, Jack Wenik,
explained to U.S. District Magistrate Judge Michael Shipp how the
device, the Hydro-Assist Fuel Cell, injects hydrogen into engines to
accelerate combustion and improve gas mileage.
Malini Mithal, an FTC lawyer, said the premise was absurd.
"These claims violate the basic laws of science," she said.
Lee declined to discuss the case at length with a reporter, although
he said he did not understand why the government wants to put him out
of business.
"It seems pretty sick that the FTC would be trying to kill something
that would get us better gas mileage," he said.
Lee's company, Dutchman Enterprises, is headquartered in his house
amid the wooded hills of Newfoundland, a section of West Milford
Township. The three-story white clapboard Colonial stands on Route 23,
about 20 miles north of Morristown. Children's toys lay in the backyard
on a morning last month. A sticker on the back door read "Warning: This
house is protected by Jesus Christ."
Dutchman employs 24 workers and sells the Hydro-Assist Fuel Cell
only to dealers. It is unclear how many have sold; Lee reported in
court papers that Dutchman has trained 1,000 mechanics to install the
device.
Tim
Farrell/The Star-Ledger The
Hydro-Assist Fuel Cell, about 6 inches high, sells for $1,000. The
principle behind it - injecting hydrogen into a car engine's combustion
chamber, reducing gasoline consumption - has been belittled by some
outside experts, and the Federal Trade Commission is accusing its
inventor of false claims.
Authorities say many of Lee's clients are evangelical Christians who
share his conservative religious beliefs, or conspiracy theorists who
share his suspicions of the government. "He knows how to market to
these people," said Zurlini, who met Lee in 2001. "Like any fraudster,
he has a gene that makes people trust him."
Dale Hoppas of Port St. Lucie, Fla., said he met Lee in January at a
demonstration in St. Louis. Hoppas installed a Hydro-Assist Fuel Cell
in his 2007 GMC Sierra truck. Gas mileage, he said, has jumped 52
percent.
"It just boggles my mind that our government would want to stop
someone from making something that works," said Hoppas, 40, an
insurance adjuster who recently took up selling Hydro-Assist Fuel Cells
as a side job.
Rick Brancadora is general manager of WIBG Life Radio, a Christian
station based in Ocean City. He said he installed a Hydro-Assist Fuel
Cell into his 2005 Honda Accord as part of an investigative story into
alternative energy. His highway mileage jumped from 33 to nearly 100
mpg, he said.
"We found a marked difference," Brancadora said.
Others customers are less satisfied.
"It didn't work," said William Johnson, 77, a retired schoolteacher
from Vineland who said he spent $1,900 in June to buy and install the
Hydro-Assist Fuel Cell on his 2005 Mercury Sable.
"I'm not satisfied at all," said Raymond Huggins, 90, of
Moundsville, W.Va. He said his 2007 Lincoln MKX has not started
properly since the device was installed in October. The gas mileage
doesn't seem to be better, either.
"Maybe one mile - but I doubt that," said Huggins, a retired
corrections officer.
Eric Krieg, an electrical engineer and member of a group of skeptics
that challenges inventions, said he first saw Lee in 1996 during a
demonstration at a cavernous hockey arena in Philadelphia. He recalled
chuckling as Lee described an ultra-efficient generator he vowed to
build after a certain number of people agreed to buy franchises for
$10,000 a pop.
Then he looked around the arena and saw heads nodding in agreement.
"I thought, "My God, these people are buying this," said Krieg, who
launched a website after the show to rebut Lee's claims. Lee, in turn,
filed a lawsuit against Krieg in federal court. The suit is pending.
YOUTH IN MOTION
Dennis Merle Lee was born in Yakima, Wash., in the shadow of Mount
Rainier. He was the second of four children. Lee's father picked fruit
in nearby orchards, according to his older sister. Sandy Noe, 64, of
Quincy, Wash., recalled Lee as a bright and charming boy who earned A's
in schools without studying.
In the early 1950s, Lee's father traded picking fruit for building
interstate highways and took the family on the road, Noe said. They
flitted from state to state. Lee had attended 24 schools by the time he
was a teenager, she said.
Wherever he went, people liked him, according to Lee's brother.
"Young people and old people just wanted to be around him," said
Stanley Lee, 49, a painting contractor who lives in Louisville, Ky.
After a stint as a medic in the Army, Lee studied three years at
Fairleigh Dickinson University and left in 1973 without a degree,
according to school records. He later lived in Fair Lawn and ran a home
improvement business.
"I kind of lost track of him after that," Stanley Lee said.
At some point in the 1970s, Lee became obsessed with energy-saving
inventions and became deeply religious, his brother said. On one of his
websites, called the Kings & Priests Ministries, Lee writes that
God commanded him to create inexpensive, efficient and pollution-free
energy.
By the late 1980s, Lee was living in Ventura, Calif. He was arrested
in 1988, accused of fraud for marketing of a pump he said generated
electricity, according to court documents. He pleaded guilty two years
later and served 13 months behind bars, according to the California
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Lee said he was framed.
"I was railroaded, kidnapped, thrown in prison without any due
process of law," he told an FTC lawyer during a deposition in January.
By 1996, Lee was back selling on the road. Authorities said his
products included an all-but-indestructible plastic house, drinkable
insecticide, and "the Hummingbird Motor and Sundance Generator," which
Lee said created more energy than it used by capitalizing on magnets
and the fourth law of motion.
"There is no known or acknowledged fourth law of motion," said David
Maiullo, a faculty member of the Rutgers University physics department.
By 2003, Lee's legal troubles were mounting. In addition to
California, at least eight states charged him with violating consumer
protection laws, according to court documents: Alaska, Idaho, Kentucky,
Maine, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont and Washington.
HYDROGEN AND GASOLINE
Lee began selling the Hydro-Assist Fuel Cell in 2007. The stainless
steel device stands about 6 inches tall, weighs roughly 10 pounds and
comes with a series of wires and nylon tubes.
"It's a solid component," said Sam Burlum, president of Extreme
Energy Solutions in Ogdensburg. He said he has installed nearly 200 of
the apparatuses since June.
Using power from the vehicle's battery, the Hydro-Assist Fuel Cell
draws hydrogen from distilled water stored in a small tank under the
hood, according to court documents filed by Wenik, Lee's attorney. The
hydrogen - which Lee claims has five times the potential energy of
gasoline - is injected into the engine's combustion chamber, where it
acts as an accelerant. As a result, according to Lee's experts, less
gas is required to convert the thermal energy of the explosion within
the combustion chamber into mechanical energy.
In other words, Lee claims the hydrogen makes the gasoline burn more
efficiently and, therefore, increases gas mileage. Lee claims in
advertisements the device is guaranteed to boost mileage at least 50
percent.
William P. Halperin, the John Evans Professor of Physics at
Northwestern University, said the claim is outlandish.
Halperin said he spent between 25 and 30 hours studying Dutchman's
literature on the Hydro-Assist Fuel Cell as a paid expert for the FTC.
The professor - who acknowledged he never personally examined the
device - said Dutchman's claims violate multiple scientific principles,
including the law of thermodynamics.
Instead, Halperin said, the Hydro-Assist Fuel Cell would drain
energy from the battery and make the car less efficient.
And does hydrogen have five times more potential energy than
gasoline?
"No," Halperin said. "That's just not true."
The FTC filed its complaint against Lee and Dutchman in January.
Days later, U.S. District Judge Faith Hochberg granted a temporary
restraining order freezing Dutchman's assets. The move nearly put Lee
out of business, he said.
But after a hearing, Judge Shipp recommended the order be denied.
While skeptical about the Hydro-Assist Fuel Cell, the judge said it was
unnecessary for Dutchman to suspend operations before a trial.
And so the case continues.
Wenik said Shipp's ruling gave credence to the Hydro-Assist Fuel
Cell. "It came out in court that this is a legitimate product," the
attorney said.
The FTC, meanwhile, plans to move forward against Lee. "We intend to
prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law," said Joshua Millard,
an FTC lawyer.
And Lee hopes to go right on selling.
"President Obama said he wants car manufacturers to get an extra 10
miles per gallon by 2011," Lee said. "We could give it to him right
now."
His first big time scam was in the 1970's when he got huge sums of
money in an operation targeting Christians including taking 150K from
Pat Robertson. The press story on this scam is found at http://www.phact.org/e/z/pilot_lee.htm#bergen
He just walked away from that, moved out west and started with free
energy scams.
The following is a little long, but a first hand account from from a
woman whose greatest mistake in life was trusting Dennis Lee:
PREYING ON THE PRAYING
By Havlyn Mayer
I was
recently contacted by a fellow with an interest in how people are
conned out of money by those who profess to be God-fearing,
law-abiding, do-gooders of planet Earth. Eric Kreig, the interested
party, had been given my name and number by Peter Sullivan, a mutual
acquaintance.Eric asked me to recall how my
husband and I became the unwitting victims in an investment scheme that
defrauded an internationally known charismatic preacher, Pat Robertson,
and his organization in Virginia Beach, as well as innumerable
individuals - Christian and non-Christian alike.Most
of the people defrauded came from well-educated backgrounds and were
up-standing members of their respective communities.Most
had their attorneys review the agreements they signed with Dennis Lee,
CEO of United Community Services, which at the time was located on
Route 17 in Saddle River, NJ.
I had to
think about whether I dared to journey down that painful path we
traversed way back in 1978.When I learned that
Dennis was still up and around and still doing his fast talking and
misleading people to this day, I thought about how we had been used. I
decided I’d do whatever possible to help some unsuspecting family avert
the pitfalls of the Dennis Lee diabolical spiel.And
so after a few deep breaths and sipping some ice water, I opened the
door to the past that had been shut on that painful experience.
Throughout the years the experience
reverberated from time to time in various circumstances.Like an underground stream of muddy water, it’s scars rippled
and surfaced and spilled it’s contents and would saturated what might
ordinarily have been a pleasant situation.I
realized that though the door to the thoughts had been closed, the
scars were deep and ever present.
Where was I,
what was happening in my life when I first encountered Dennis Lee?Ah yes, that was easy.Searching.Searching to do something good for my children,
something to thank God for all He’d done for us – especially me.And I had the means with which to do it.I had the sum of ten thousand dollars at my
fingertips.My mother had recently given me the
money to put away toward my children’s future education.I placed it in a savings bank and hoped to watch it grow, so
that when they reached college age there’d be a sufficient amountwith my husband and I adding to it over the ensuing
years.That was one of two specific goals. But
unfortunately, there are people out there who have no scruples - dream
breakers - and I was on the verge of meeting one of the best of his
kind.I have to give Dennis Lee that much.
Thanking God
was my primary goal.Seven years earlier I had
been totally healed of an invasive breast cancer.I
was only 30 years old at that time, our adopted little boy was just
five weeks old when I underwent devastating surgery.I
went to a NY hospital for the surgery, which was performed by one of
the leading surgeons.And then I was followed
by 25 radiation treatments that could knock the stuffing out of Goliath.They decided not to give me chemotherapy as it was
somewhat experimental at the time and they didn’t want to disturb
whatever good quality of life that might be remaining.I
remember shortly after my surgery Happy Rockefeller had undergone a
double mastectomy and there were many comments about her survival rate
because she had I think five nodes positive.I
had more than 10 nodes positive.Seven months
later I developed a huge lump in my other breast, which was confirmed
by my doctor. He told me to see my surgeon post haste. Through a course
of events I won’t go into at this time, I was healed via the laying on
of hands by a group of Christian women when a friend
1.
brought me to their prayer group.Immediately after the healing, I had an appointment with my New
York surgeon.He did an extensive examination
plus a mammogram, and then shook his head and told me, “I can’t find
anything wrong.”
Thirteen
months following my mastectomy I underwent removal of my ovaries to
prevent me from producing estrogen.Estrogen
doesn’t cause cancer, but if there is a malingering cancer cell, it
will feed off it.At age 31, I was in
child-bearing years and women in that age range normally produce a
moderate amount of estrogen.Fertility clinics
were a rarity 36 years ago. I was being treated by a doctor that
specialized in that field, but once the breast lump appeared he
suggested we adopt.We already had registered
to adopt just in the event the fertility treatments didn’t work and
miraculously through a relative we ended up in a private adoption
arrangement. Now that I’d had my ovaries removed I would never bear a
child – I saw it as a small price I paid to be able to raise the child
we had just adopted.God had healed me.I would live!Maybe we
could even adopt another child…How could I not want to do something so
that others could learn about Jesus Christ and be healed if they were
not well?
I was raised
Roman Catholic.At the time I began my
introduction to Catholicism at age six, masses were said in Latin.It sounded nice, but I didn’t understand a single
word.As I progressed to my teen years there
were many changes – masses were said in English.By
the time I was married I began to have doubts as to whether I wanted to
continue on in the Catholic faith.I could not
bring myself to believe that a priest had to be confessed to about any
of my wrong doings.I remember as a child
penitent during first Holy Communion exercises being told to go into
the confessional and tell of my sins.There was
one problem, I couldn’t think of anything I had done that was offensive
to God.And so I was thrust into the role of
lying about some small infraction just so the priest could forgive me.I would then say my penance and on Sunday morning
would attend mass and receive communion.
I was also
well aware how my peers were laughing after going to Saturday night
confession.They’d repent of what they’d done
the previous Saturday evening, be forgiven, go to mass the next day -
if they were awake and sober enough to get there in time for 12 o’clock
mass.I wasn’t judging them…they could live
their lives as they saw fit, I was only trying to figure out I could
possibly raise children in a religion that teaches one thing but people
decided how and when they want to apply it to their lives.In my heart of hearts I couldn’t believe that Jesus never had a
woman He loved in His life – other than his mother.I
also believed in abortion in special circumstances.And
I believed in birth control.How could I share
with my children when they were ready to go to CCD classes that I was a
practicing hypocrite?So I began searching.And by sheer “coincidence” a friend who was unaware
of my searching introduced me to a Full Gospel Assembly of God Church.That suited me just fine.They
taught about the laying on of hands and the speaking in tongues.The very things I associated with my healing.How could I not want to be a part of that?
It was
through that particular group of friends I met at the church that I
began hearing about a man named Dennis Lee.He
professed to be a “true” Christian.He had a
plan whereby anyone with a credit card could receive a form of rebate
that would be directed to a Christian endeavor, such as the 700 Club. His newly developing company, United Community
Services (UCS), was working with major credit card companies.It took considerable financial resources in order
for this to be accomplished, and he also had the support of Pat
Robertson of the Virginia Beach based 700 Club.Once
some of these Christian endeavors had the necessary funding, the Word
of God could be spread worldwide.And the
credit card holder also received a bonus,
depending on the amount of purchases of course.After a few years the money people invested in the
company would be refunded with a huge bonus.The
people investing were quite worldly – educated – God-fearing – had
attorneys review the investment proposal, and they had far more money
than did I.Some had hundreds of thousands of
dollars compared to my paltry little ten thousand dollars.How could this not be a win-win situation?
Lost in the
blithe tale of what investing in UCS could do not only for the sake of
Christianity, but to also increase our children’s education money, my
husband, Al, and I decided to get on the bandwagon and invested in UCS.
Al worked
long hours and begged off attending investors’ meetings. I would go and
he’d stay home with our two children.There
were some heated discussions at the meetings and Dennis would point
toward Pat Robertson as the person responsible for holding up the
progress of UCS, or he’d come up with another reason and gradually the
mood of those questioning him calmed…until the next meeting.Meanwhile, a few of the people I knew from church
were slowly and gradually becoming a part of Dennis’ prayer group.He often held prayer meetings at the office that
consisted of several large rooms on the first and second floors of a
nice brick building.They asked me to join them
for an overnight fast and prayer vigil that went for 24 hours.With Al’s agreeing to look after hearth, home and
kiddies, I attended the prayer vigil.As a
result I came to know more about Dennis’ group of “followers” as they
were beginning to be called.What surprised me
was that they told me they were no longer attending the church and were
switching to another because they believed the pastor was seized with
jealousy about the success Dennis was about to achieve and the result
was discord amongst the congregation.And I
questioned myself as to why would I want to continue in a church that
was turning people against one another.
Dennis kept
saying that funds were short and he needed people to do some office
work.I was able to arrange with a neighbor to
watch my children for several hours a few days a week and I went to
work in the UCS office – for two weeks and then learned he couldn’t pay
me.
The office was exceptionally nice and spacious.
All new top-of-the-line office equipment including electric
typewriters, beautiful desks, state of the art phone system,
photocopiers, conference room furniture, and more.The
strange part was that the offices were empty – devoid of “company
officers’ to occupy the private offices.I soon
learned that Dennis and his wife, Allison, and a few of their friends
were living there. I came to know their “inner sanctum” friends. There
was Bobby Pirrone – Dennis’ right hand person after Allison, Lynne – a
girl from the Phillipines who read the bible cover to cover time and
again but had no investment in UCS, and a young man whose name escapes
me and then he’d disappear for a few days.They
were a very unconventional group in the least.
I also began to get to know a few of the
investors, Jim Scanapico, Alvin Wikle, and Pat Russo.Dennis
didn’t like the investors gathering and talking together and one day
after having seen me chatting with Jim Scanapico Dennis took me aside.“I have a very delicate operation I’m trying to
launch here,” he told me.“Fraternizing with
other investors can be harmful to the operation.Some
people think they have a better idea that I should employ in my
operation and have been known to cause problems – Mr. Scanapico being
one of them.We must just refrain from
conversing about things here and trust God to do His work and everyone
will be in far better circumstances as a result.”
3.
Not long after
Dennis’comment, I noticed some of the major investors at the meetings
were becoming all the more disgruntled.I
began to worry about our investment.
Al Wikle had given me his telephone number in
case I’d heard any special news while I was working at UCS.I decided to give him a call because I couldn’t
quite understand some of the reasons the investors were becoming
increasingly bitter toward Dennis at the meetings.As
a result Al give me a quick education about some of Dennis’ shenanigans
and explained why people were getting quite nervous.And
then I became really nervous about the investment I was counting on.
My mother
and I never had a compatible relationship since as far back as I could
recall.I always seemed to be a disappointment
to her no matter how hard I tried.I did
everything I could to earn her approval and I had been counting on this
investment so she could finally say something positive about me.By the time I reached age five she gave up on me
because she had adopted another daughter who fulfilled the image she
wanted.And that child later proved to be able
to sing – something I couldn’t do if my very soul depended on it.And from that point on I lived in the shadows,
always feeling not quite good enough.If she
ever found out that I may have made a terrible mistake by investing the
money, there was no telling what repercussions would occur.
Al Wilkle
called me early one afternoon to tell me that he’d heard from another
investor who had gone to the UCS office to confront Dennis, and he
discovered that the building had been padlocked by the Sheriff’s Office.And Dennis and his crew could not be found.I began to feel panic rising in me and the fate I
dreaded soon followed.My mother called and
asked me to give her the money back plus the interest because her other
daughter told her of a good investment plan.It
was one of the worst moments I can ever recall.I
had to tell her what I’d done, but I said that it was not lost, it
would be refunded plus bonus within a few months.Of
course, it also didn’t help that she’d learned from a few relatives I’d
invited to the investment offerings meetings, they thought I was
involved with a company led by a guy whom they believed to be a
religious zealot off his rocker.
I was
watching the children kick about in our pool one summer afternoon when
suddenly Dennis, Allison, Bobby Pirrone, and Lynne appeared.They were shouting and jumping and dancing around
saying, “Praise the Lord, He’s on our side!”
Finally the
hullabaloo calmed down and Dennis announced that another evangelist was
very interested in investing a good sum of money into UCS.He said that he was not going to let any of his investors down.Then he told me that I was one of very few people
he felt he could trust – there were several people doing all sorts of
things to bring him down and whatever was left of the UCS operation.I was thrilled for the news and then he confided
that in the interim, they were homeless at the time.He
said whatever monies he had was used for rental storage of all the
office furniture and supplies.This perplexed
me.He lived in the offices when they were open
rather than an apartment.People had invested a
million dollars or more.Surely he paid himself
and his wife a salary in addition to what had been spent for office
furniture equipment.What had happened to all
that money?Lots of people have questioned what
Dennis did with the monies, but for some reason he never had to prove
himself financially to anyone.He always sought
a cleaver way of out it.
I also learned that he and Bobby had gone on a
retreat together.For a guy who was quite
bright, common sense didn’t fit into the picture with regard to the
retreat.Apparently, “God told” Dennis that he
and Bobby had to fast the entire time – they could only consume
distilled water.I never did figure it out, but
Bobby and Dennis decided that emptying the pan from a dehumidifier at a
friend’s home was akin to distilled water.They’d
cart a jug or two to some secluded woodland spot where they had pitched
a tent to pray throughout their retreat.Needless
to say, they had to cut the retreat short because they both ended up
with dysentery.
Dennis said that God told him to come to Al and
me and state they wanted to stay at our house for a brief spell until
God worked out the rest of Dennis’ plan.I
didn’t think the “God plan” was quite on target considering he’d just
told me about the retreat that God sent him on.I
said that I’d check with my husband to see if it was okay and Dennis
said they could contribute a little bit toward grocery bills.I was anxious to get our money back.Maybe there were people causing trouble – I wasn’t sure.All I knew was that maybe this would be a way to
get our money back and quiet my mother’s relentless badgering about it.Also, it would give me an inside look at things.I was the only person who had heard from him in a
long while.
Al and I talked about it we decided we’d allow
them to stay for a few days.A few days became
a few weeks and to say it was a burdensome experience would surely be
an understatement.During those few weeks
Dennis was using the telephone quite often to make long distance calls
which he charged to another number.I suspect
it was a phone number associated with the defunct UCS.And
then one day he came rushing up from our finished basement screaming,
“Hallelujah, hallelujah!”
He said a well-known evangelical minister,
Chris Panos, in Texas wanted him to come and talk with him and he was
prepared to give Dennis a huge sum of money.Dennis
had only one problem…he needed airfare for this little group, lodging
in Texas, car rental money, etc.After all, he
couldn’t go to Texas looking like a pauper – that would cause some
concern for Rev. Panos.
By this point in time, I was well aware most
people would have stopped him in his tracks when he first walked into
our backyard.In our zeal to recover the monies
and our not being educated in the ways of con men, we did the opposite.We were good living Christian people – we were not
going to be judgmental and trust that the truth would reveal itself in
good time and we would receive our just reward – the refund of our
original investment – at least!
Al and I had purchased the ranch-style home
about eighteen months earlier.We were a young
family and got by paycheck to paycheck with a few dollars in savings.When Al’s vacation approached we decided that air
fares were far too exorbitant for our little family to travel and so
with his vacation check and money from our savings we decided it best
to enjoy our
backyard and we had a large above-ground pool
installed.We saved money by doing the
landscaping ourselves.That way we could
vacation everyday of the summer and Al enjoyed coming home from work to
join the children in the pool.
Our home had a huge finished basement, which is
where Dennis was staying although Lynne shared our daughter’s room and
Bobby slept on our new living room sofa.For
the most part though, on weekends they were not around.Dennis and Allison supposedly went to visit her family in nearby
Fort Lee, Bobby would spend the weekend at his parent’s or at his
sister’s home in South Jersey. And Lynne always found somewhere to go
if she didn’t go with Dennis or Bobby.Having one
bathroom and one 40 gal. hot water heater sometimes presented a problem
with showers and laundry though.I did all the cooking and that became quite a chore after a week.I was becoming exhausted from the cooking and
cleaning and having so many people around can be a chore in itself.
And then Dennis asked if he could borrow $5,000
to help cover costs for the trip to go meet with Rev. Chris Panos.We told him we didn’t have that much money and the
little we did have was for any emergency we might encounter.Dennis suggested we take a loan out on our home and
he’d help us repay it as soon as they returned from Texas.He said we’d only have to make payments for one or two months
and by then the deal with Panos would be in operation and he’d pay off
the balance right away.And once again, lambs
were led to the slaughter.
We never saw them after they left for Texas.And the deal with Panos was nothing but a
lie.Panos was called
repeatedly by Dennis urging him to make an appointment to hear of his
fantastic plan to increase the monies of Panos’
ministry by leaps and bounds.One cannot blame
Panos on agreeing to at least hear Dennis out.It
was Dennis who lied and said Panos “desperately wanted in” on his offer
to invest.And I had no reason not to believe
Dennis – he was on the telephone almost daily with Panos and Allison
spent hours typing up documents and data that I had at one point taken
to the post office to mail off to Panos.
We were a
young family and our two children had growing needs that cost money.The loan was an added burden we pinched pennies to
cover every month.And our taxes skyrocketed
beyond our expectations – the town had installed a new storm drainage
system.We also had a bad encounter with the
principal at our son’s school as did several other parents and we ended
up enrolling them in the nearby parochial school.That
cost a monthly sum.All in all, we were no
longer enjoying our home.Our one car was
getting a bit cranky and there wasn’t any public transportation or
carpooling in our area that Al could use to get to and from work.We’d eventually have to replace our car.That would be another expense.We
decided we’d have to sell our home and invest in a two-family home that
would help defray our monthly expenses.
Several
months after moving into another home we received a call from Bobby
Pirrone.He said he felt badly about everything
that happened and he hoped we didn’t hold him responsible.He said that he was beginning to see that Dennis’ relationship
with God was off-track and that he had no idea where Dennis was or what
he was up to.Lynne had left to live in
California and planned on going back to college.Bobby
was working in the marketing field and had joined a Fellowship church.He asked us to come visit his new church.Everything was in the form of “Mother, May I.” The
Pastor and a select group of elders would meet and pray and then give
directives in the way they felt God was telling them that person should
live.Parents were admonished if they didn’t
follow the rules given for child rearing.Single
people were told who they could only date and a few were directed to
marry though they were not attracted to each other.This
really went against our grain.To us, this type
of congregation was for people who needed to have “family” and could
not make decisions for themselves.They shared
everything – clothes, jewelry, food, work locations, transportation,
and had very limited contact with people outside the congregation.
We last
heard from Bobby when he was about to marry a young woman from the
congregation.He invited us to the wedding, but
due to vacation plans we were unable to attend.We
wished him well in his decision and we never heard from him again.
About two years after we last heard from Bobby,
I received a telephone call from Dennis one evening.I
hung up on him.I had nothing to say except bad
things and I figured why should I waste my time and energy.He’d probably heard it from everyone else many
times over and it quite obviously didn’t matter to him.The monies were long gone.We were still
healing from all we’d gone through.I was
working full-time and within a year had paid my mother the $10,000.
Dennis is much like a serial killer – except he
kills the spirit and not the body.It was over.It was done.Through a long
spell of hard work, God in His infinite wisdom blessed us abundantly
though the tormenting comments from my mother persisted until she was
on her deathbed.The scars of Dennis run deep.
I’ve heard from other investors over the years.Each
one had a different story Dennis told them about this person or that
person who was hell bent on destroying his endeavors to bring good
things to this world.Dennis had a penchant for
always blaming someone else for his failures.And
every one of the people I
spoke to carried deep scars of Dennis Lee.It
wasn’t only the person who invested, the ripples touched people
associated with the investor – family and friends and how that person
reacted for the remainder of his/her life as a result of Dennis’
misdoings.
I paid
attention to everything and listened when opportunity presented itself
during the time Dennis was living in our home. I
suppose you could say I was being cautiously nosey.And
I was later happy that I paid attention.
I knew
Dennis had stored all the desks and equipment from UCS.Where I didn’t know and he was very secretive about it.When he approached us for a loan so he could go to
Texas I suggested he sell off some of the office equipment.Dennis was aghast I would suggest such a thing
because he said he wouldn’t be able to set up an office right away when
he returned with the Panos deal.He’d have to
find funds to replenish anything that had been sold.
One day
Allison was having difficulty with her electric typewriter and I heard
Dennis call a young man that sometimes visited with them to meet him at
the garages.Dennis said he needed help moving
some heavy items to get to the typewriters.Obviously
the young man didn’t quite remember the streets and I overheard Dennis
recite the names and the turns and the fact there were garden
apartments in the front.Months later Jim
Scanapico got in touch with me to find out if I’d heard anything more
from Dennis.I happened to mention that I’d
once heard Dennis describe to someone how to get to the stored items.Jim immediately stated he was coming to pick me up
and we were going to find the garages.Sure
enough, we found them without difficulty and the superintendent at the
garages was happy that someone showed up.Dennis
had not paid the rent in several months.To
this day I do not know what sort of arrangement Jim worked out with the
superintendent, but within twenty-four hours Jim had a few trucks
remove everything and had it stored elsewhere.Jim
sold off a good part of it and used it to further a business venture he
was promoting.Months later that venture began
to blossom and Jim gave out stock certificates to many of the UCS
investors, us included.It brought each of us
about two-thousand dollars.Not many years
later I was saddened to learn Jim died a very early death.He was a good person – a fervent believer that someday Dennis
would get his due.
When I once
questioned Dennis why he sometimes made derogatory comments about
Jewish people and I pointed out that Allison is Jewish by birth, he
told me, “The Jews are like that because they haven’t received Jesus.My Allison is born-again and a true believer and
follower of Jesus.”It nauseated me.That’s was so sick.Demented
people think like that.
Following is a sermon of sorts Dennis gave at
one of the investor meetings.I taped it though
I later learned Dennis would have “stroked out” if he knew anyone in
the audience was taping what he said.Keep in
mind that nearly all of the investors were Christian – most affiliated
with a full-gospel church.Dennis often
commented he didn’t like dealing with those of the Jewish faith.If memory serves me correct, Dennis presented this
because there had been an abundance of complaints from investors that
week.
“Forgive me for being so bold, but God has asked me to tell you
what He has put in my heart.There is a
certainty in my heart that God has prepared you for what I have to tell
you and He has opened the way in your heart to hear.God
has given me an assurance that Jesus will have you play a very
important part in His plan for mankind.UCS
will triumph in spreading God’s word!Trust me,
but most of all, trust God!
He is a
miracle God.He turns everything in the world
upside down.In God’s Kingdom things are the
mirror opposite of the world.You see and think
failure about to occur, God sees differently.God
is a supernatural God – He can make a way where there is no way.He can take an old dried up gnarled heart and give
it new life, pumping rivers of living water through it.Nothing is hopeless to God.
I see now
that Satan is the destroyer and enemies are not flesh and blood.The fight is not
carnal – it is spiritual, and if I’m fighting
carnal things, I’m fighting in the wrong ring.I
want to fight the spiritual fight and resist the devil.I submit myself to You, Lord, by walking in Your word and
humbling my heart before You.I know You’ll
fight my fights as only You’re capable of winning them.I’ve struggled with the wrong things.You
are a mighty God and will not let Your children go.You
have let me go my own way long enough for me to learn that I cannot
make it without You because my foe is a sizeable one.You
let me go my own way and I brought disaster upon myself.You love me so much and know me so well that when things got bad
enough, You knew I’d turn from my ways and accept You and Your Word.You and Your Word are the only two things that can
make it through anything with love and joy and peace.If
we’d been standing on Your Word and looking to You, then all that has
transpired during these past months would not have touched us as
profoundly as it has.
Now that
I’ve begun in the walk of faith – as I hope all of you here will –
everything will fall in line.And I believe You
for it God, because You created it that the spiritual rules physical
things and when I’m not walking in Your Word, obedient to it with
humble heart and trusting, I am left to eat of the fruits of my own way.
I was trying
to serve You with my own strength, serve You in my own chosen ways and
not Your way.Nothing but Your way is lasting.I need to operate by Your wisdom in all I do and
You are only too willing to give me Your wisdom in all things. Your
Son, Jesus, has been made the wisdom for man.Your
blessings come from doing things with Your wisdom, from being obedient
in our hearts.When we exalt ourselves, You
humble us for our own good because You love us.You
bless us in the physical when our spiritual self is in good order, for
You cannot bless bitterness.Thank you God for
rescuing us from ourselves.Amen.”
Some people thought Dennis to be a prophet.Indeed hewas and is – a
true prophet of doom to anyone who invests in any of his schemes.
I cannot fathom why – I’ve heard of numerous
schemes he’s invented to take people’s money over the years – why
hasn’t the Attorney General or other government authority put a
stop to him?Why
hasn’t anyone all this time made him show how the money was spent?What is it going to take to put him where he can’t
hurt people anymore?How does he keep finding
all these loop holes in our laws?
There’s
no question in my mind, Dennis is a brilliant person.If
only he’d apply that to some endeavor that was not cunning,
underhanded, devious, and hurtful to people who trust him!
He’s a spirit killer in the Nth
degree!
Dennis Lee preys on the
praying.Once he’s finished taking your money,
your spirit is dead.Serial killers kill the
body, serial con men kill the spirit.They kill
your dreams.
I truly hope that he is put out of business and
put in jail where those ofhis ilk belong.He has created so much damage to peoples lives its
unbelievable.I’m doing this for Jim Scanapico
– he tried to warn people, he tried on his own to make it up to those
who were injured by investing in Dennis’ schemes.
Dateline NBC will have the first major network TV undercover
investigation into the Dennis Lee operation Sunday 7pm EST It will
be a half hour segment with award winning correspondent Chris Hansen.
I've been on and off giving them information for more than a year on
this. I told them that it would be a much bigger story if they find
out that HAFC really works. Dateline did have the leading HAFC
installer do a conversion on a car model that Lee claims has been
successful in the past. - watch the show to find out how it worked.
The episode will reveal new information related to the on going FTC
case against Lee and show interviews of people who Lee claimed in court
got near doubled mileage..
If you miss it, I will make sure to have a link to the full length
web version of the story from my skeptical page at http://www.phact.org/e/hafc.htm
I still encourage any fraud victims of Lee to report in to the FTC (202)
326-2454, jmillard@... - they may be able to get money back for
victims.
I made a mistake in reporting a few months back: The Las Vegas Optic
NEVER published any claims about the HAFC or PICC.
To the contrary, It was a rival paper, the now-defunct Las Vegas
Times, that did so.
sorry if I have sent some people extra copies of this announcement.
sorry, last week, the show was preempted by Tiger woods
running 2 hours late. I'm told it will air this Sunday 7 eastern and
8 central. It will be the second half hour segment and after a story
on job scams. The show has under cover work looking into Lee's
organization and trying to get a Dateline car to run. Lee followers
are already flinging mud at Dateline.
Here is a story about a Popular Mechanics study of HAFC that
included helping Dateline check out a car modified by Lee's leading
installer: http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/how_to/4310717.html?page=1
I will post a link to the full version of the Dateline story that will
be available on the web at: www.phact.org/e/hafc.htm
The FTC court case is now about arguing if the last hearing has to be
done over because of transcripts problems. I've heard from people
buying kits that they can't invoke the warranty until a certified tuner
sets it up . . .. . but then they either weren't given contact info
for such a person - or the person was a few states away. nice one!
Dennis said a guy running a Christian radio station WIBG was getting
over 100mpg in his car. It was Rick Brancadora who ran Dutchman
promotions on his radio station and made a statement of super high
mileage for the court. But Rick is unwilling even when offered a few
thousand to show the mileage openly to witnesses. Lee is against any
open demonstration before independent observers.
A web site saying all hydrogen boost systems are scams: http://www.aardvark.co.nz/hho.shtml
(I don't know if they all are bogus - for all I know maybe for some
cars or
trucks you can get a few mpg more if H2 can act as a catalyst)
it was really good to see such thorough investigative journalism. I
thought they did a great job - they did not have air time for all the
victims I lined up for them. Dennis came off as a lying crook. I
wish they wouldn't have asked him to show even one example of it
working (I can't find one). I can't see why the state of NJ has him
to operate so openly in these last 13 years or so. About the only
thing I'd criticize is it would have been neat if they could have shown
some of the full page ads Lee had run in a promotional campaign that
must have cost at least a million. Dateline implied the gist of how
high mileage scams usually work - they string people along for months
with adjustments that don't work and then say, "that's funny, you are
just a rare case that doesn't work". Dennis learned it from Pantone
who learned it from others - this is an old way to make money. Among
the best responses I've heard on Lee was the Popular Mechanics guy when
asked, "what did we get for $1900" said just "taken". I thought
Dateline was smart to get the same model of car that Lee's leading
mechanic/tuner, Sammy claimed to have gotten near doubled mileage with
-Of course now it's time for Dennis to claim Dateline is just
controlled by big oil interests.
I maintain more info on all this at www.phact.org/e/hafc.htm
If they had time, there are all kinds of interesting things they could
have included like
people who had cars damaged by HAFC
Lee's early criminal record (home repairs scam, buying card scam,
passing bad checks, etc)
Lee's high mileage claims from 8 years ago, like TEEG that didn't
work either
Dennis telling people to max out their credit cards
a video of Lee's power meter
Havlyn's story of being ripped off by Lee before he ever heard of
free energy
Lee's former links to the patriot movement
Lee's claims to get direct revelations from God.
Stories from people who used to work with Lee
How Dennis won't allow indpendent tests of HAFC
A few people said, they would like to know if Dateline ever asked for
their money back. I double checked with the one female victim shown
- she had several times gone back to get Sammy (Lee's heavily promoted
lead installer) and he would do another test claiming it got high
mileage, but never really got it to work. I offered Rick
Brancadora of the "Christian" radio station WIBG $3000 to show me his
car getting near 100mpg - no response.
Lee followers still maintain this is all a set up and a
misrepresentation - they point out how over 15 years ago, Dateline
faked an explosion in a video about unsafe cars.
The following are excerpt from Dateline's transcript and web version of
the story:
By Chris Hansen
Correspondent
Dateline NBC
updated 7:42
p.m. ET,Sun., March. 29, 2009
Dennis Lee: We
believe we will be able to get 100 mile-per-gallon in just about any
car on the road – even SUVs. How important is that to America?
If
true, very important. For years, people have been looking to
innovations like hybrid, even electric cars as the way to lower
dependence on foreign oil. Scientists say the hydrogen powered
car is a legitimate dream.
But
this man says he may have the answer now. His name is Dennis Lee, and
he says his device, called HAFC – the hydrogen assist fuel cell
– is nothing short of revolutionary.
The
HAFC alone can increase fuel economy by more than 50 percent and in
many cases it has proven to even more than double your gas mileage.
That's because, he says, your car will run not only on gas, but on
water – which the device will convert to hydrogen fuel.
Dennis Lee:
There are plenty of people out there who can use some help at the gas
pump.
The
device itself retails for about a thousand bucks, not including
installation. But Lee says you can make real money by buying a
dealership and selling the devices to thousands of eager customers. The
price? $300,000. But you'd better act now!
Dennis Lee:
At the end of seven days, if you haven't made any decision, then it's
like $300-350,000 at that time.
In fact, many of the
people in this room have signed on and bought dealerships themselves.
Dennis Lee:
The cash is going to be incredible! Isn't it?
But Lee does admit
his device does not always work, and says there is a money-back
guarantee.
Dennis Lee:
It is very, very, very, very, very, very rare that anyone does not get
the 50 percent increase in mileage when the car is properly installed
and tuned.
Delve deeper into this
investigation
See the auto tests, receipts, and
more collected by Dateline concerning the HFAC device.
So
how well does the device work? What better way to find out than
to buy a car, and have one installed and tested? For sales and
installation in the Northeast, we were steered by a dealer to a man
named Sam Burlum. With hidden cameras rolling, our producer went to
visit Sam Burlum at his New Jersey garage. Sam told us about his and
his colleague's credentials.
Sam
Burlum: Mark and myself, we're installers, trainers,
tuners – and we're also head of the HAFC research and development.
Sam told us he was
under contract to Dennis Lee, and would soon be moving to a bigger
garage.
While we were there,
we met some other customers.
Man from
Long Island: This is up and coming technology. I believe
in it.
These people have
paid Sam about $2,000 to have this device installed.
This man from New
Hampshire wanted to start his own dealership.
On the garage wall,
Sam’s documentation of increases in fuel economy in different model
cars he has worked on.
Outside, Sam the
installer reminds us what makes the device so valuable.
Sam Burlum:
You're helping the environment because the pollution goes way down, you
don't have any. Now you're lessening your dependence on foreign
oils. So you don't have war.
And, he says, giving
the "little guy" like himself more control over his own destiny is what
it's all about.
Sam
Burlum: You're
taking the guy that was here, making it work on a day to day basis, and
say(ing), "You're important. Now you have a say," without picking
up a gun. You know how monumental that is?
Producer:
That's pretty big.
In fact, it sounded
hard to resist. Sam said the car that gets the best gas mileage with
the device is the Honda Accord.
So,
we bought one. We also asked Mike Allen, senior automotive editor
for "Popular Mechanics," to make sure the car was in good condition.
He said our Honda was running fine, and he also said this
hydrogen type device wasn't the first one he's seen.
Mike Allen:
I have tested dozens of these devices.
Chris
Hansen: Have you ever found one that significantly
increased gas mileage?
Mike Allen:
Never.
Still, we wanted to
give Lee's device a fair chance.
But first, we needed
to document what kind of mileage our Honda was actually getting.
So
we hired a government approved company – Compliance and Research
Services – to put our car through the same tests the
Environmental Protection Agency performs before car companies put those
mileage stickers on new cars.
Robert
DiPalma: Our plan today is to emissions-test this vehicle
for highway fuel economy, and city emissions.
General Manager
Robert DiPalma and his team put our Honda through three identical road
tests.
What kind of mileage
was our car getting?
Robert
DiPalma: The average of the highway fuel economy tests
gave us 34.49 miles-per-gallon. The city cycle gave us 24.02
miles-per-gallon.
But we also wanted
know about the car's emissions.
Robert
DiPalma: Based on these results, this car would pass a
federal emissions test.
Now it was time to
take our car to Sam's garage and have the device installed.
Nine days later, we
returned to pick up our car.
After what he says is
a scientific road test, Sam had some incredible news about our Honda's
gas mileage.
Producer:
96 miles-per-gallon?
Sam Burlum:
96 miles-per-gallon.
Producer:
Wow!
Sam Burlum:
And we got caught in a little bit of traffic too.
A
Honda that an EPA approved lab says got between 24 and 34 miles to the
gallon, was now supposedly getting almost a hundred. We paid Sam $1900
for the device and installation. There was a discount for cash. Then,
to back up his amazing results, Sam took us for the same test drive he
said he'd conducted earlier in the day.
At the end of this
road test, Sam said our mileage wasn't quite what he originally thought.
Sam Burlum:
57.77 miles-per-gallon.
Sam told us the drop
in gas mileage was probably due to the extra weight of four people in
the car.
Still, even 57 miles
to the gallon would be great.
Could it be true?
We had paid $1900 to
have Dennis Lee's gas-saving device installed in our car.
Mechanic Sam Burlum
told us we would get incredible gas mileage, 96 miles-per-gallon.
We brought the car
back to that government-approved lab and manager Robert DiPalma for two
more road tests.
Robert
DiPalma: We got no significant difference in anything.
Fuel economy, emissions – basically what it was last week, without the
device installed.
Thirty-four miles per
gallon before, 34 miles per gallon after, and no change in emissions.
So we didn't get the
mileage Dennis Lee bragged about.
Dennis
Lee in a promotional video, discussing HAFC: It
is guaranteed to increase your fuel mileage by 50 percent or more.
It was no surprise to
automotive expert Mike Allen, except when we showed him the bill.
Chris
Hansen: It comes to $1,904 – we got the cash price
discount.
Mike Allen:
Ouch.
Chris
Hansen: What did we get for our $1,904?
Mike Allen:
Taken, you got taken.
Chris
Hansen: So how would you describe this device?
Mike
Allen: It's a scam.
Chris
Hansen: Plain and simple?
Mike
Allen: Bogus, yeah.
Allen says Lee's
device doesn't make nearly enough hydrogen to make a difference.
So why do so many go
for it?
Mike Allen:
There's one born every minute. People want to believe that they can
attach some gadget to their car, that they can pour some sort of pixie
dust into their gas tank and get better fuel economy.
Chris
Hansen: Yet he sells these things for thousands of dollars.
Mike
Allen, laughing: Is this a great country or what?
What we found out
about Dennis Lee is that over the years, he's gone from one end of the
country to the other, touting much more than just his gas saving
device.
Dennis
Lee: The reason why we believe that nothing is impossible
is because believe that to god nothing is impossible.
He's been part
preacher, part salesman – a man who pitches things he says can change
the world.
Dennis
Lee: A jack hammer that doesn't make noise.
Dennis
Lee: Tires that never, ever go flat.
Dennis Lee:
Cameras that can look through six feet of concrete wall.
Lee has even pitched
an all-purpose motor that can run on virtually anything.
Promo
narrator: Imagine running your engine on pickle
juice, Coke, Pepsi, or anything liquid.
Dennis even inhaled
what he says is pollution free exhaust.
Promo
narrator: Now for something truly amazing. He
will take deep breaths and will not cough.
Peter
Sullivan: He had these inventions that would make a better
world
In the mid-1990s,
Peter Sullivan bought a Dennis Lee dealership to sell yet another of
his inventions – a free-electricity machine.
Peter
Sullivan: He was trying to bring together people who were
motivated, who could invest with it, and then we would make money by
doing good things.
But there was a
hitch. While Lee used a demonstration model – there seemed to be a
problem delivering the real thing. It was Sullivan's wife who smelled a
rat.
Peter
Sullivan, laughing: She had the intuition that this was a
scam, to stay away from it. In my idealism, I didn't listen.
He says he never saw
his money again and never actually received a working model of the
free-electricity machine.
As for Lee, he's gone
from one miraculous claim to another. He's even pitched a classic scam
– one that's as old as the hills, the so-called perpetual motion
machine.
Dennis Lee
speaking at a convention: Could I show you a perpetual
motion machine? Yes indeed, I do believe in perpetual motion machines.
Bob Park,
University of Maryland Physics professor, author: He
couldn't possibly believe
these things. He was a swindler from the start and I think he enjoys
it. Among the most fundamental laws is the law of conservation of
energy. A perpetual motion machine obviously violates that. So, that
just isn't going to happen.
How has Lee been able
to pull off all his bold claims? Well, he hasn't always been able to.
I have the plea
agreement.
According to
California Department of Prison records office: Admitted to prison
March 17, 1993, parolled April 29, 1994, discharged April 29, 1997. So,
he served just over a year in prison.
In California in
1990, Lee pleaded guilty to eight felony counts stemming from the
marketing of one of his business opportunities. He served just over a
year in prison.
At one time or
another, he's been prosecuted or sued in at least nine states for
violating consumer protection laws: California, Washington State,
Maine, New Mexico, Kentucky, Alaska, Vermont, Idaho, and Oregon.
Bob Park:
He's broken a lot of laws, but he hasn't broken the laws of Physics yet.
Judging from our test
results, Lee’s latest gas-saving device hadn't gotten our Honda any
increase in mileage either.
So, we had some
questions for Sam, the mechanic who installed the device, and for
Dennis Lee himself.
So we went back to
Sam to give him the bad news. I didn't tell him who I was at first, but
soon, I identified myself.
Chris
Hansen: That car that we brought in, that Honda…
Sam Burlum:
Okay.
Chris
Hansen: …that you installed the hydrogen assist fuel cell
on. We had it tested independently.
Sam Burlum:
Okay, well, did you do the same exact test we did, under same exact
conditions that we did?
Chris
Hansen: Well, let me just tell you, yes, we did it under
professional conditions at an EPA-sanctioned facility.
Sam Burlum:
Okay.
Chris
Hansen: It got 34 miles per gallon before you put it on,
and it got 34 miles per gallon afterwards.
Sam Burlum:
Then the system needs to be returned.
Chris
Hansen: The system needs to be retuned?
Sam Burlum:
Ob-obviously, then, the system needs to be returned.
He insisted that once
it was retuned, his so-called scientific road test would prove the
device worked. And he insisted the EPA-sanctioned test had to be wrong.
Chris
Hansen: It seems like what you guys are selling is a
product that doesn't work to people who are in very difficult economic
times, who want to believe that they can double or triple their mileage.
Sam
Burlum: We're not in business to scam people. That's not
what we do.
Remember, Sam was
just the installer. The person we really wanted to talk to was the
inventor himself, Dennis Lee.
He lived nearby so we
knocked on the door and were greeted by his wife.
Chris
Hansen: Hi, how are you? I’m Chris Hansen with Dateline
NBC.
AllisonLee, shuts and locks door: Ahhh.
Chris
Hansen: We'd like to talk to Dennis Lee if we could.
Just as we were
leaving, Mr. Lee appeared, and it turns out, he had a lot to say.
For instance, when we
told him his invention didn't work in our car he said he never promised
anyone it would always work.
Dennis Lee:
Do you know what we tell everybody?
Chris
Hansen: Go ahead.
Dennis Lee:
No, what do you think we tell everybody? We tell everybody it always
works?
Chris
Hansen: You sell it like it always works.
Dennis Lee:
Is that what you think?
Chris
Hansen: That's what you say.
Dennis Lee:
You should actually check it out, because you know what we do?
Chris
Hansen: You guarantee that the mileage…
Dennis
Lee: I don't guarantee anything.
Maybe not, but listen
to Lee himself on his promotional video.
Dennis
Lee, on tape: It is guaranteed to increase your fuel
economy by 50 percent or more.
And we reminded him
that Sam, the man who installed the device, also told us it would
increase our mileage by 50 percent.
Dennis Lee:
Okay, then it's some mechanic gets trained.
Chris
Hansen: What are you saying?
Dennis Lee:
That's not my mechanic. He doesn't work for me.
Maybe not, but some
who bought the device told us their dealers had steered them to Sam.
Dennis Lee:
Now, you're trying to be antagonistic and find something wrong, because
that's what you do.
Chris
Hansen: I know, but I'm telling you.
Dennis Lee:
Because you're a lackey for oil companies and other people, and that's
what you do.
Chris
Hansen: Why, how could you say that?
Dennis Lee:
You…
Chris
Hansen: That's outrageous, Dennis.
Dennis Lee:
Because it's what you do.
Chris
Hansen: I'm a lackey for oil companies?
Dennis
Lee: Well, right now, you've tried to…
Chris
Hansen, chuckling: Based on what?
Dennis Lee:
You've tried to tell me that you did something that shows…
Chris
Hansen: Let me tell you…
Dennis Lee:
That something doesn't work.
Chris
Hansen: Yes, and it doesn't work. We bought…
Dennis Lee:
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Chris
Hansen: We bought it, Sam sold it.
Dennis Lee:
Listen to what he just said. Now, you guys will be cutting this all out
anyway, but listen to what he just said. See, it doesn't, it didn't
work.
Lee is suggesting our
experience is not typical, and he implied he doesn't want to rip anyone
off. He told us his dealers are supposed to give the money back if a
specific device doesn't work.
Dennis Lee:
You should take it back…
Chris
Hansen: …and get our money back.
Dennis Lee:
…to wherever you bought it, only if you did what they agreed you should
do.
Chris
Hansen: We did it all.
Dennis Lee:
Well then, I guess you need to go to them…
Chris
Hansen: We, we paid the money…
Dennis Lee:
...and you need to talk to them.
Chris
Hansen: …they installed it.
Dennis Lee:
Because I will guarantee you some of these will not work. We have never
said they always work, ever, to anybody, anywhere.
Dennis Lee:
I don't know of anybody who says that – who doesn't give you back your
money if a thing doesn't work. I don't know of anybody like that. I
haven't heard of anybody like that. If I did, they would have a problem
with me.
Chris
Hansen: See, this is the same kind of doubletalk that you
always use when you're backed in a corner.
Dennis Lee:
Doubletalk, doubletalk, thank you.
Chris
Hansen: That's exactly what it is.
Dennis Lee:
Have a nice day.
Chris
Hansen: I'm happy to talk to you.
Dennis Lee:
In other words, oh yeah, you're ha — no, you're not happy to talk to me.
Chris
Hansen: Give me one example…
Dennis
Lee: You're happy to try to take everything I say and
twist it.
Dennis Lee:
That's what you're happy to do. You're not happy to talk to me. You're
happy to twist what I say.
Dennis Lee:
Because you have an agenda.
Dennis Lee:
You lucked out. No one else will. No comment to make, because you could
care less about the truth.
The truth, Lee says,
can be found in a recent
court decision. The Federal Trade Commission recently charged Lee
with false advertising and attempted to get an injunction to keep him
from marketing his device. But a judge said, not so fast.
Lee furnished the
court with what he claims is scientific evidence that the device
worked. He also submitted the names of twenty-six people who he said
were happy with the device.
Delve deeper into this
investigation
See the auto tests, receipts, and
more collected by Dateline concerning the HFAC device.
Even though the court
was skeptical of Lee's mileage claims, it decided not to grant the
injunction at this time. The FTC is still pursuing the case.
But what about those
twenty-six people Dennis Lee cited in court documents as satisfied
customers?
Dr.
Michelle Hemingway: I spent $1,000 for the kit itself,
$2,000 for my mechanic to put it in.
Dr. Michelle
Hemingway is one of them.
She said she's been
back to have Sam re-tune her car three times so far.
Dr.
Michelle Hemingway: Even though I've done all that, I've
had no improvement.
Nir Kronenberg's name
was also supplied to the FTC by Dennis Lee as someone who's had success
with the device.
Nir
Kronenberg: It doesn't work. We can't get our money back.
It's a rip-off basically.
All told, we were
able to talk to 19 people on his list.
Fifteen people told
us the device didn't work as advertised. Some were heading back to Sam
for more re-tuning. Others were asking for their money back.
Two people actually
said the device worked, but they also told us their cars weren't in
working condition.
Another person who
told us the device was working in his car declined our offer to have
his car tested.
The list of satisfied
customers named in the court documents included one other person we
wanted to talk to, but we couldn't reach her. It turns out she lives
with Sam Burlum, the mechanic.
Electrical engineer
Eric Krieg is a long-time critic of Dennis Lee.
Eric Krieg:
He's very good at controlling people. He constantly recycles new
people.
Video
Meet
Dennis Lee's opponent Longstanding critic Eric Kreig talks
about his motivations for trying to debunk Dennis Lee's claims.
Dateline NBC
Lee sued him for,
among other things, defamation. But the suit was recently dismissed
with prejudice.
Krieg has posted a
Web site offering anyone a reward if they can prove Lee's inventions
actually work.
Eric Krieg:
The urban legends about the person getting 100miles to the gallon are
the ones that end up getting repeated. They're kind of a friend of a
friend stories. People like that are just supposed to go away and ‘Oh,
it didn't work,’ you're just supposed to shut up about that.
Dennis Lee is still
doing battle with the FTC, and continues to maintain he makes no
promises his gas saving device will always work.
For his part, he is a
crusader, fighting for the little man.
Dennis
Lee: You need to do something for yourself and not wait
for the car manufacturers or the government to do it for you.
But to others, he is
no crusader at all.
Chris
Hansen: What do you suppose will end up happening to
Dennis Lee?
Eric Krieg:
I've been wrong to predict his downfall in the past, he'll probably
weasel out of this and have some wonderful new promise.
And sure enough, on
his Web site, Lee is already promoting a new catalytic converter for
your car.
DennisLee: We got 180 miles per gallon under
laboratory conditions. We were all shocked!!!
I talked
with Samuel the Installer and Tuner on the phone - it wasn't an in
depth interview - more just him offering his side of everything. I was
impressed he was so friendly given my record of slamming hafc all over
the internet. Samuel lists a number of areas he disagrees with
Dateline on the story. He details as much from his web site at
Sammy says
his company, Extreme Energy Solutions, of Ogdensburg, NJ, is an
independent facility/company, of Dutchman Enterprises LLC, and that has
done a lot of research and development, and testing for many different
companies. He says many mileage enhancers are not that significant,
if at all.
- but he would rather only identify the ones his research and
development test results show worked and he feels HAFC is one of the
best he has tested and applied. He says the Monday Night technical
hotline is now under his control, not Dennis Lee's. That open forum is
called "Green Tech Talk", and is open to anyone who chooses to listen.
Later in the show, people have the opportunity to make comments, ask
questions, as they wish. He has dropped religious and political issues
and just wants to help people get both better fuel mileage gains and
performance enhancement improvements.
He claims the
cars that get the best mileage improvements are the Toyota Camry (1999
to 2005) and the Honda Accord (2002- 2007) but that Honda Accord that
Dateline had was set for
California Emmissions standards and thus it was possible the computer
rolled back the gain. It is true that Dateline did not take up Sammy's
offer to try to tune the car after their test found no gain (A source
says the thinking was that so many other people had failed with many re
tunes, that they did not want to go there)
Sammy
promises he will announce my open offer to arrange for the first proper
independent open validation of a working HAFC car on the hotline
Monday, "Green Tech Talk", to nearly 1000 listeners. He says he wants
non-biased scientific information backed up by real tests. Sammy says
that among the companies he has tested for are BA Performance Products,
Ful Fomula C, HP Tuner, Pro Scan, B17, Innovative, Dynamics, Lucas,
and a number of race car chassis builders to name a few. He said, "I
like to give consumers options". He admitted that HAFC isn't right
for every car, but is plauseable for most applications.
There are a lot more questions
I would like to ask him, but I thought it better to at least first
give him a chance to help find me one car that gets the mileage that we
can use for an open mileage demonstration.
In other news, there are apparently a number of prize offers out for
real proof of H2 boost including: http://tinyurl.com/cwdnub
I would like to offer my own few thousand dollar open prize offer for
proof of any H2 boost system getting significant mileage.
stay tuned,
Eric Krieg
ps
the following is one of a number of open challenges to the first person
with an HHO boost car willing to show it: http://holysmoke.org/hho/
It looks like Dennis is getting an exit plan ready to leave HAFC followers with
all the debt, returns, mad customers, technical and legal troubles while Dennis
hides in a new company called Genesis.
The following is a quote from EPA people to someone who asked about the
legality of HAFC:
EPA considers the modifications you describe as emission
control system
tampering in violation of section 203(a)(3)(A) of the Clean Air Act.
Here is the EPA enforcement policy written as guidance under the Act:
The Clean Air Act has been amended since the above guidance was written.
Section 203(a)(3)(B) now prohibits the manufacture, sale, or
installation of emission control defeat devices. Any device that
interacts with the electronic control unit or its sensor components must
go through the Memo 1A testing process to confirm that it does not
adversely affect a vehicle's emissions. Without the testing
confirmation, the manufacturer, seller, or installer is potentially
liable for a tampering violation.
Furthermore, hydrogen generator units are potentially regulated under
the certification procedures for aftermarket fuel conversions as
explained here: http://www.epa.gov/otaq/cert/dearmfr/cisd0602.pdf
have certified some aftermarket fuel conversion kits. I'm not aware
that any of the companies you have referred to are on this list, or have
qualified their conversion kits under the EPA regulations.
I'm not a lawyer or a car expert, but it sounds to me that people
installing the kits are at risk for getting in trouble with the EPA.
The Dateline show got me email from people who feel Dennis is a
real crook and some funny stories. But it also got me email from
the stream of people who think they can get hydrogen boost cars working.
I'm am scheduled to test a car claimed to get a 50% boost later this
week.
The following is an overview of the Dateline story about Dennis:
http://peswiki.com/index.php/News:Dateline_Accuses_Dennis_Lee_of_Fraud
The most lengthy pro-Dennis writing is found from
http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm
There is just too much on this guys megabytes to mount a response.
But the following email came in from an anonymous source who really worked with
Dennis in the early days:
> I just thought I'd comment on one of his statements:
>
> "Then what about the biggest economic victim of all,
> Mr. Financier? He was the really big loser in Seattle.
> Eighty percent of those Seattle heat pump buyers didn't
> pay one dime for their systems. All CONSERVE ever got was
> the tax credit money that the customer got back with their
> tax return, and most never made any payments under the
> System for Savings contracts because so many of them
> didn't work and Mr. Financier had his company stolen
> from him at almost the same time Dennis did. Mr. Financier
> lost literally millions of dollars, and the company he had
> spent his whole life building to boot."
>
> This guy is either a complete and utter fool or an out and
> out liar. There was no Seattle Financier, and the
> residential systems were completely paid for up front. For
> those who needed to finance the cost, around $10,000 as that
> was the limit for the residential solar tax credit back
> then, a Saving and Loan company out of Spokane, not Seattle,
> provided the financing via taking a mortgage on the
> buyer's home...
>
> This is the same Saving and Loan company that provided
> Dennis with a fore-closed home with pool to live in for free
> and various repossessed cars to drive. They also set Dennis
> up with the penny stock corporate shell switcher-roo,
> whereby the Delaware CONSERVE corporation was traded for a
> ?Utah corporation. This stock was valued at something like 5
> or 6 cents, the Saving and Loan company got over fifty
> percent of the stock, I don't remember how much was
> issued maybe half a million or double that amount, and
> Dennis got the rest. He immediately set up a stock option
> plan for the sales staff. The stock went up to one or two
> dollars, or maybe three - I don't remember as I never
> had or wanted any. Most of the sales staff knew the point
> was to get as much cheap stock as possible then sell it, and
> that is what they did - selling it to other employees or who
> ever. Dennis sold a lot of stock.
>
> To make a long story short the Saving and Loan outfit was a
> family business, which I think maybe the founder had died
> and his son's were running it, and they were nothing
> more than a bunch of crooks. They pulled all the stuff that
> was going on back then when the big saving and loan crash
> hit, which was things like making all sorts of loans on
> paper to cronies, who only received 10 to 20 percent of the
> loan amount, who would later declare bankruptcy.
>
> In the end, when CONSERVE went bust, and it and Dennis were
> sued, they pulled another stunt, which was the presentation
> in court of paper work which declared the corporate swap of
> the Delaware corp. for the Utah one, null and void due to
> some technicality. This voided the court proceedings because
> the case had been brought against the wrong corporate
> entity. By then Dennis was gone along with about $750,000. I
> think the Saving and Loan folk probably got most of this,
> but he certainly got a substantial amount as CONSERVE had
> done about two million in sales in about two years of
> existence.
>
> I especially like his comment that: ".. most never
> made any payments under the System for Savings contracts
> because so many of them didn't work." Really? Why
> didn't they work? Does he think the WA State Attorney
> General's office had saboteurs in the production crews?
>
> They didn't work because Dennis was selling heating and
> air-conditioning... Think about it. The LamCo system was a
> wonderful wonderful heating system, but it was not designed
> for air-conditioning because you can not run it in reverse
> and dump the hot compressed gas back through the panels -
> the panels are positioned in the sun to maximize heat
> collection for crying out loud. He fired any sales or
> engineering staff that questioned this; therefore he
> didn't have any competent engineering staff to put the
> systems together or install them - that's why a
> wonderfully conceived system turned into a piece of junk.
>
> This Frazier guy never personally experienced any of this,
> he is simply regurgitating Dennis' spew, he is a
> complete and utter moron.
as a whistle blower, I see a major break through in investigating
Dutchman
was the finding that false mileage claims about people who are HAFC
victims was filed in federal court to over turn the temporary
restraining order. I don't know why it took them so long, but
finally, the FTC has pointed this out in the
court case which was stuck in digressions over the failed
transcription of an early meeting. The following is from a major
recent
legal filing by Josh Millard, the FTC lead prosecutor:
from Case 2:09-cv-00141-FSH-MAS Document 50
Filed 04/29/2009 Page 8 of
13
First, since the unsealing of this case, numerous aggrieved
consumers
have come forward to challenge the defendants' claims for the HAFC kit
and to demand relief for the defendents' deceptive advertising
practices. Significantly, these consumers are not merely purchasers of
the HAFC kit; many of them are, in fact, the very same people whose
names appeared on the Orange Test reports (or "Mileage Test
Calculation" forms) submitted by the defendants as proof for their
claims. The defendants used these consumers' names in arguing that
testing proves their claims. Yet many of these consumers have advised
the FTC that they never received any gas mileage increase with the HAFC
kit. The Court should hear testimony from some of these consumers
before closing the record on the FTC's preliminary injunction motion. Second, the FTC has obtained results of scientific dynamometer
tests of the HAFC kit demonstrating that the defendants' product does
not substantially increase gas mileage. These physical tests were
preformed by an independent automotive testing facility in New Jersey
that has been recognized by the EPA. The tests show that a car
received gas mileage of 34-35 miles per gallon after the installation
of the kit. Hence, there is now additional, physical proof that the
HAFC kit does not perform as the defendants claim. Third, the FTC has learned that the scientist whom the
defendants
cited at the February 5th hearing actually rejects their claims for the
HAFC kit. At the Feb. 5th hearing, the defendants cross-examined Dr.
William Halperin of Northwestern University using a textbook on
internal combustion engines written by Dr. John Heywood of MIT.
Admittedly, Dr Heywood has decades of experience with internal
combustion engines and is one of the nation's leading experts in the
field. However, Dr. Heywood rejects the defendants' claims. After
the Feb 5th hearing, the FTC contacted Dr. Heywood and provided him
with the affidavits and evidence filed by the defendants in this case,
materials for the HAFC kit filed by the FTC, and the test results for
the HAFC kit. Applying his expertise, Dr. Heywood concurs, and is
willing to join Dr. HAlperin in testifying under oath, that the
defendants' claim for the HAFC kit are false and unsubstantiated by any
scientific testing.
This is big stuff. The FTC appears to be using the test results from
Dateline in this prosecution. I think Dateline has always felt proud
when their investigations yield information useful to send crooks off
to jail. The one original bit of skulduggery the FTC legal team came
up with was finding the author of a book Lee's people referred to when
trying to discredit the first FTC expert witness. Good work! turns
out the author of "the book" on internal combustion engines is willing
to testify that HAFC doesn't work. This is a good step in addressing
the criticism of the first FTC expert for not being an engine expert.
Of course since my appearance on the Dateline show seen by millions, I
have yet to have a happy customer email me saying ,"mine works,
allow me to show you and others". I think the game for this an d
other super high mileage claims is getting all users to just think they
are each the rare case exception that doesn't work.
After most of the HAFC customers would have seen the Dateline show,
you would think that any that have it working would have been happy to
set the record straight and vindicate Dutchman . . . . well none of
them contacted me to set me straight. However, another hydrogen
boost group contacted me and scheduled a time-place to prove their
system to me. But the night before, they claimed technical
problems. A number of other hydrogen boost proponents have said they
would find real proof for me . .. . I'm still waiting and would be
happy to advocate H2 boost claims if I would ever see compelling first
hand evidence for any of them..
Word is that Lee is walking away from Dutchman and on to some newer
company selling the same stuff under the name "Genesis" . . . .
leaving others with the mess of all the kits that just don't work.
Lee has a long history of new names for the same group of people
operating at the same site. I doubt that
will throw off the G-men after Lee. Many HAFC investors/dealers are
bankrupt and can't cover all the kit returns coming in - of course Lee
blames that on them and the car companies and me - he has claimed he
will sue the car companies for keeping HAFC from working.
The following is a regular column from a role model and mentor of mine,
president of the American Physical Society, Robert Park: http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/WN09/wn041009.html
He does a great job exposing all kinds of nonsense - often at higher
levels from people who should know better - I include an excerpt from
his column about his appearance on the Dateline show:
Last Sunday, NBC Dateline exposed the Hydro Assist Fuel Cell, sold by
Dennis Lee, as a scam. It seemed like such a simple idea: powered by
the alternator, the HAFC decomposes water into hydrogen and oxygen and
adds a whiff of hydrogen into the combustion mixture, supposedly
extending the mileage you get. There are two small problems: it takes
more energy to decompose water than you get from combustion of the
hydrogen, and Dennis Lee is notorious for his scams. The hydrogen fuel
scam has been fooling the scientifically ignorant, including George W.
Bush and former congressman Robert Walker, for at least 40 years. This
time, however, Lee was up against tough Dateline investigators aided by
the indefatigable Eric Krieg of the Philadelphia Association for
Critical Thinking, and a cameo appearance by Bob Park. Lee got
clobbered. I think.
In July of 1997, I was invited to go with an NBC Dateline camera crew
to cover a demonstration of a perpetual motion machine in Hackensack,
NJ. You don't get a chance to do that everyday. "Put one in your home
and you will never have to pay another electric bill," an ad in the
Wall Street Journal said. But Lee doesn't sell perpetual motion
machines; he sells dealerships for perpetual motion machines. The
machine turned out to be the Gamgee Zero-
motor, invented in 1880 by John Gamgee who managed to sell it to the
Navy; it didn't work then either http://bobpark.org/WN97/wn071897.html
. The idea is to use a liquid that boils at room temperature to drive a
piston, thereby extracting energy from the ambient. Gamgee tried
ammonia, but only confirmed the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Lee
solved that by using carbon dioxide, which is liquid only under
pressure. Thus the machine actually ran on compressed carbon dioxide;
not quite perpetually, but long enough for a demonstration. NBC decided
it was too technical for the Dateline audience and it was never used.
Two years later, I was a consultant for ABC Good Morning America at a
Lee demonstration in Columbus, Ohio. He now had a perpetual-motion
machine that used permanent magnets (the 1870 Paine machine). By the
time he got to Spokane in 2002 it was “the principle of counter
rotation.” Only the scam was perpetual.
I was hired as a consultant by the Atty. Gen. of the state of
Washington to prepare an affidavit on Lee's scams. Based on my
affidavit, a state court granted a summary judgment barring Lee from
doing business in Washington. In 2003, I did the same for the Atty.
Gen. of Maine. Lee is also barred from doing business in Kentucky. That
leaves 47 states to go before he moves to Canada. Each state is willing
to let him screw people somewhere else. I hear the Federal Trade
Commission may be interested, but Lee is not Bernie Madoff. Robbing
retired couples who hope to extend their meager retirement income
doesn't put Lee in a Manhattan penthouse, but he may be, well,
perpetual.
Sterling Allan is a tireless reporter on free energy claims (he holds
out more hope than I do).
I close with a copy of some of his material about the Dateline episode
from the very thorough
(but leaning on the believing side), Peswiki web site: http://peswiki.com/index.php/News:Dateline_Accuses_Dennis_Lee_of_Fraud
MSNBC's Dateline had a Hydrogen Assist Fuel Cell
(HAFC) installed on a Honda Accord -- which is supposed to be one of
the best cars for seeing an improvement in mileage according to Lee's
company literature. They went to Sam Burlum, an installer, trainer, and
tuner, as well as Head of HAFC research and development under contract
with Dennis Lee, to have the unit installed. When he was done, Sam told
them the car was now betting 96 mpg.
However, Dateline had taken their vehicle to the
government-approved testing facility, Compliant and Research Services
(?), to document their "before" and "after" data: mileage and
emissions. According to that data, their three "before" and three
"after" data sets were nearly identical -- no change, staying at around
34 mpg.
The recent "victory" by Dennis Lee in the FCC case (not an
ultimate victory, just more time to prepare) lists some 24 "satisfied
customers." Dateline contacted as many of those customers as they
could, and found that 17 of them were not at all satisfied customers,
many of them wanting their money back, having spent typically around
$1000 for the equipment and another $1000 for the install, but with
very little change in performance. Four of those are shown on camera
making statements about their experience with the HAFC.
Dateline also addresses some of the other claims of Dennis Lee.
In all, the Dateline coverage paints Dennis Lee as a charlatan
preying on good people who want to see change, and who believe in a
conspiracy by the government and oil and auto industries to keep these
technologies from going forward.
The final segment features an interview with primary Denis Lee
skeptic, Eric Krieg, who is a member of
our New Energy Congress.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29899191/ - Fast
money: Car device seller's scheme unravels - Dateline gives one
man's claim of improving gas mileage a test-drive (MSNBC; March
29, 2009)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/30059812#30059812 -
Segment opens with Dateline NBC taking a Honda Accord to have an HAFC
system installed, with assurance that they would be getting at least a
50% improvement in mileage. Camera is hidden.
Summary of Dateline show on Dennis Lee's HAFC mileage claims
The following are some out takes from the half hour episode to run
Sunday April 5th:
Here is some best of:
Dennis Lee: There are plenty of people out there who can use some
help at the gas pump.
Dateline: The device itself retails for about a thousand bucks,
not including installation. But Lee says you can make real money by
buying a dealership and selling the devices to thousands of eager
customers. The price? $300,000. But you'd better act now!
Dennis Lee: At the end of seven days, if you haven't made any
decision, then it's like $300-350,000 at that time.
Dateline: In fact, many of the people in this room have signed on
and bought dealerships themselves.
Dennis Lee: It is very, very, very, very, very, very rare that
anyone does not get the 50 percent increase in mileage when the car is
properly installed and tuned.
Dateline: In fact, it sounded hard to resist. Sam said the car
that gets the best gas mileage with the device is the Honda Accord.
So, we bought one. We also asked Mike Allen, senior automotive
editor for "Popular Mechanics," to make sure the car was in good
condition. He said our Honda was running fine, and he also said this
hydrogen type device wasn't the first one he's seen.
Mike Allen: I have tested dozens of these devices.
Chris Hansen: Have you ever found one that significantly increased
gas mileage?
Mike Allen: Never.
Dateline: Still, we wanted to give Lee's device a fair chance.
Nine days later, we returned to pick up our car.
After what he says is a scientific road test, Sam had some
incredible news about our Honda's gas mileage.
Dateline: 96 miles-per-gallon?
Sam Burlum: 96 miles-per-gallon.
Dateline: Wow!
-- after proper test run ----
Robert DePalma: We got no significant difference in anything.
Fuel economy, emissions – basically what it was last week, without the
device installed.
Thirty-four miles per gallon before, 34 miles per gallon after, and
no change in emissions.
Chris Hansen: What did we get for our $1,904?
Mike Allen: Taken, you got taken.
Chris Hansen: So how would you describe this device?
Mike Allen: It's a scam.
Bob Park: He's broken a lot of laws, but he hasn't broken the laws
of Physics yet.
Dateline: But what about those twenty-six people Dennis Lee cited in
court documents as satisfied customers?
Dr. Michelle Hemingway: I spent $1,000 for the kit itself, $2,000
for my mechanic to put it in.
Dr. Michelle Hemingway is one of them.
Dateline: She said she's been back to have Sam re-tune her car three
times so far.
Dr. Michelle Hemingway: Even though I've done all that, I've had no
improvement.
Nir Kronenberg's name was also supplied to the FTC by Dennis Lee as
someone who's had success with the device.
Nir Kronenberg: It doesn't work. We can't get our money back. It's a
rip-off basically.
Dateline: All told, we were able to talk to 19 people on his list.
Fifteen people told us the device didn't work as advertised.
Some were heading back to Sam for more re-tuning. Others were asking
for their money back.
Two people actually said the device worked, but they also told us
their cars weren't in working condition.
Another person who told us the device was working in his car
declined our offer to have his car tested.
Eric Krieg: The urban legends about the person getting 100miles
to the gallon are the ones that end up getting repeated. They're kind
of a friend of a friend stories. People like that are just supposed to
go away and ‘Oh, it didn't work,’ you're just supposed to shut up about
that.
Chris Hansen: What do you suppose will end up happening to Dennis
Lee?
Eric Krieg: I've been wrong to predict his downfall in the past,
he'll probably weasel out of this and have some wonderful new promise.
Dateline: And sure enough, on his Web site, Lee is already promoting
a new catalytic converter for your car.
Dennis Lee: We got 180 miles per gallon under laboratory conditions.
We were all shocked!!!
In the News
Featured: Fuel Efficiency > H Injection
> HAVC > Dateline Accuses Dennis Lee of Fraud
- Citing credible third-party testing of an HAFC installation on a
Honda Accord, a Dateline special paints Dennis Lee
as a charlatan preying on good people who want to see fuel economy
improvement, and who believe that a conspiracy keeps these technologies
from going forward. (PESWiki; April 8, 2009)
Anyone claiming to seek truth, better be man enough to look at
ALL the details and not be persuaded by glitzy propaganda pieces like
NBC is noted for. Listen carefully again to each "dissatisfied
customer." All are "trying" or "thinking about" getting refunds. The
fact remains, all failed units purchased from me get refunds. Any claim
otherwise are lies. I cannot speak for other dealers, but I know Dennis
Lee NEVER told any of them to steal money from anyone. These slipshod
accusations here have to stop.
Ken, I read that blog. Your claims to facts are all wrong.
From your first alleged lie that Dennis wasn't referring to the HAFC in
the video where he says they guarantee at least 50% gas mileage, to the
conspiracy theory of Hearst Publications, 9/11 and big oil, to the
crazy idea that Eric Krieg has so many state AG's under his control
that Dennis can't sell working perpetual motion machines, to claiming
Dennis was prosecuted for neglecting to file a simple form in CA, you
are long on vitriol and way short on fact.
The video NBC excerpted did have Dennis guaranteeing at least
50% mileage improvement for the HAFC multiple times. He states in that
video that to get the "savings guarantee" one of Dutchman's certified
tuners has to tune the installation and perform the before and after
fuel economy tests.
Commentary by Eric Krieg
Lee has been selling non-working high mileage solutions for 7 years
now. He sued me because the truth I post on the web hurt his ability to
defraud people. I have been nicely asking to see even one car that gets
the mileage for many months. I know of many people who have tried to
get it to work and can't in some cases, people have damaged cars or
cars that don't run – many can't get their money back. I offered $3000
to the radio station guy who claims over 100mpg – he won't respond. I
hope to put together an offer to pay anyone to show me any H2 boost car
getting really high mileage.
Popular science who makes a lot of money off ads for high
mileage scams would have every reason to announce some work -their
expert below has found them to be bunk:
A web site saying all hydrogen boost systems are scams:
http://www.aardvark.co.nz/hho.shtml
(I don't know if they all are bogus - for all I know maybe for some
cars or trucks you can get a few mpg more if H2 can act as a catalyst)
Hydrogen is demonstrated to aid ICE combustion efficiency. It
also causes embrittlement of the cylinder walls, but that is for
another day. Depending on whose numbers you wish to use an ICE burning
only H2 and no gasoline can be up to 25% more efficient in terms of
converting fuel chemical energy to mechanical energy than burning
gasoline. This results primarily from the fact that the hydrogen burns
faster. Now the bad news: On board electrolysis units such as Dennis
Lee's HAFC all diminish efficiency. They do not improve it. This
happens for two reasons:
The amount of hydrogen electrolysis units generate is tiny.
All of the energy to perform the electrolysis comes by way of a very
inefficient chain.
Work the Numbers:A typical electrolysis unit draws
between one half and one kilowatt. For convenience let's say the we
have a bigger than average 1kW electrolysis unit, a honker that draws
over 80A. Highly efficient industrial electrolysis units are 80%
efficient. Let's assume for now that our HHO or HAFC unit matches that
efficiency, that's 800W chemical energy from H2 fuel production. A
highly efficient car at cruise, such as a Honda Accord getting 34MPG
consumes 132MJ / gallon gasoline / 34 miles = 4MJ / mile gasoline fuel
energy content. At 55MPH cruise it takes over that mile the
electrolysis unit generates 52kJ worth of H2. This is just 1.3% of the
4MJ fuel energy content used by the vehicle. Start with a less
efficient vehicle and the numbers only get worse. Use efficiency of
real electrolysis units on the market which are way below the 80% of
industrial units and the numbers get much worse.
As if the marginal impact that the HHO or HAFC units could
have was not bad enough, the other problem is the source of the H2 gas:
engine output by way of the alternator. A really, really good
automobile alternator is 70% efficient. A bleeding edge automobile
engine running at its optimum power level is 43% efficient, and the
best electrolysis money can buy is 80%. This closed cycle is 24%
efficient. For every kJ of hydrogen that the electrolysis unit
generates and burns, the engine consumes more than three additional
kJ gasoline.
And this is with ideal components, not what are found in typical cars
and not what is found in the various HHO units, including Dennis Lee's
HAFC.
For people who don't know Dennis Lee's history: he's a
convicted felon in California, who has been banned from doing business
in several states. The old advice: "If it sounds too good to be true,
it probably is." is sound advice.
Acknowledgements
Thanks Mary Yugo for providing these links. "To be fair and
complete, you may want to consider including links to these very clear
and objective videos. In summary, Dateline arranged to have HAFC
installed by a certified installer on a Honda Accord 4 cylinder (one of
Lee's most successful choices according to his web site). When the car
was returned to them, they were told it was doing 96 miles per gallon
highway. When they tested the car using objective methods and a
dynamometer, they found it got 34 miles per gallon just as it did
before it was converted. Turning the converter off actually improved
the mileage slightly. Lee's only explanation during a brief interview
was that "it doesn't always work".
check out the June 1 Star Ledger report on the latest court
meeting: Passaic
County inventor agrees to stop claiming his device improves gas mileage
They say the FTC restraining order is back and Lee is forbidden to
promote HAFC. Does anyone really believe he will stop? - Lee is known
for ripping up court restraining orders right on stage. Time for a new
company name at the same address.
Dennis Lee talks of
Dutchman selling assets to GTS (Genesis
Technology Systems) and plans to sell the old HAFC as
GCES (Genesis Combustion Enhancement System) in the future. He claims
(but the FTC and the Dateline
show vigorously dispute this) that this car modification system can
double mileage and get at least a 50% mileage boost. .
Check out the below urls - there is breaking news in the FTC court
case Lee's lawyer wants out:
A few interesting quotes from this motion to the judge by Lee's
lawyer include: "Sills Cummis has only
received a fraction of the amount outstanding for its services"
[interesting, because Lee said he paid them $50,000] and
"On May 18th, Mr Lee submitted correspondence to the Court and the
FTC,
a true and correct copy [snip] which was sent without any prior
notice
to myself or anyone at Sill Cummis, Mr. Lee makes statements contrary
to the factual positions taken by the defendants in this matter . . "
and among many other complaints says, "Sills Cummis is now in an
impossible adversarial position with the defendant as a result of
Lee's actions. No client has the right to direct his attorneys to file
frivolous motions or other meritless actions." I don't know how
long it will take the court to allow him out. I think Lee's move of
screwing his present lawyer is about more than just avoiding 10's
of thousands of legal fees. Lee knows from his pro se battle against
me
that the courts allow an individual to get away with all kinds of
dilatory crap they would never permit a member of the bar to file.
This can buy time in a battle to outlast the FTC and complicate the
whole case away from bottom line issues. But, Lee probably doesn't
realize that case law exists to react when someone uses a ghost lawyer
to try to gain court leniency normally given a pro se. Lee mentioned
in a hotline that he expects the restraining order to come back early
June and that he is thinking of leaving the country.
The FTC finally filed damning testimony from people who Lee claimed
had doubled mileage. Note
statements from
victims of HAFC
– http://www.phact.org/e/victimsTestimony.pdf
This is the longer legal
version of some of Datelines victims. The important thing here is that
these people describe Lee's leading tuner, Sammy telling them they had
near doubled mileage - but the victim would notice normal mileage on
the trip home. Many had multiple visits at great cost that yielded no
net change and many had to pay legit mechanics to fix cars. These
victims lost thousands between the kit cost, installation cost, tuner
cost and real mechanic repair cost. Many drove hundreds or even
thousands of miles only to be strung along again and again. None of
the HAFC believers respond to my open offer to flip to being the
biggest supporter if I would just see real proof it works.
In other free energy scams, claimant "Mylow" (Jose Enrique
[Ricky] Concepcion) of Chicago had quite a following among
gullible followers. Sterling Allan who once promoted him, now agrees it
is a fraud:
NEWARK -- For decades, Dennis Lee has marketed inventions he says
will help liberate America from big business and fossil fuels. He has
boasted of fertilizer that grows 17-foot-tall corn and engines that run
on steak sauce and soda pop.
But Lee, a convicted felon, has agreed to stop claiming his latest
product can turn any gas-guzzling car into a hybrid. The 63-year-old
from Passaic County signed an agreement last week with the Federal
Trade Commission preventing him from saying the $1,000 device
significantly improves gas mileage at all.
Tim
Farrell/The Star-LedgerHydrogen
Assist Fuel Cell, or HAFC seen here at Extreme Energy Solutions in
Ogdensburg in February. The device's maker, Dennis Lee, has agreed to
stop making the product.
The agreement makes it nearly impossible for Lee
to market his product; the government also froze his assets, a move Lee
described in February as tantamount to putting him out of business.
The move comes nearly six months after the FTC filed suit in U.S.
District Court in Newark against Lee, who has a long history of
consumer protection violations. Authorities say he has staged sales
demonstration in hotel ballrooms across America, marketing products to
evangelical Christians and conspiracy theorists who share his
conservative religious beliefs and suspicions of the government.
He claimed his latest invention, the Hydro-Assist Fuel Cell, could
boost automobile gas mileage by as much as 300 percent by injecting
hydrogen into the engine's combustion chamber.
But the FTC argued the premise was make believe.
"We have a very strong case," said Joshua Millard, a lawyer for the
FTC.
The agency collected sworn statements from people who bought the
device and claimed it had little or no impact on gas mileage. It
presented test results from an independent automotive facility in
Plainfield. And it enlisted a Massachusetts Institute of Technology
automotive engineering professor who reviewed the product's technical
specifications and concluded Lee's claims were baseless.
Lee and his lawyer did not return calls seeking comment.
The preliminary injunction will remain in place until the agency's
suit against Lee is resolved. In the end, regulators hope to prevent
Lee and his companies -- Dutchman Enterprises and United Community
Services of America -- from ever marketing the Hydro-Assist Fuel Cell
as a gas-saving device again.
"We will continue to prosecute this until the defendants are bound
by a permanent injunction," Millard said.
Lee has been in the energy business since the 1970s. On one of his
websites, called the Kings & Priests Ministries, Lee writes that
God commanded him to create inexpensive, efficient and pollution-free
energy.
He operates his business out of his home in the Newfoundland section
of West Milford Township. During the last 21 years, Lee has been
charged in at least nine states with violating consumer protection laws
for his products, which also have included a purportedly indestructible
plastic house and drinkable insecticide.
In 1988, he was charged with fraud in California for marketing a
pump he said generated electricity. He pleaded guilty two years later
and served 13 months behind bars.
Lee began selling the Hydro-Assist Fuel Cell in 2007. The stainless
steel device stands about 6 inches tall, weighs roughly 10 pounds and
comes with a series of wires and nylon tubes. He advertised it in
Newsweek and Popular Science, saying "Get over 100 miles per gallon --
even with an SUV!"
Initially, U.S. District Magistrate Judge Michael Shipp had been
critical of the FTC's case, pointing out the the agency's expert
witness was not an automotive engineer and had not personally examined
the device. But a technical problem with the transcript prompted the
magistrate to schedule another hearing, giving the FTC a second chance.
This time, the agency recruited John B. Heywood, director of the
Sloan Automotive Laboratory at MIT, to review the Hydro-Assist Fuel
Cell's technical specifications. And it turned to Compliance and
Research Services in Plainfield, which had tested the device on a Honda
Accord.
On Friday, Lee agreed to stop claiming his invention saved gas.
That was good news to William Johnson, a 77-year-old retired teacher
from Vineland. He spent $1,900 to buy and install the Hydro-Assist Fuel
Cell on his 2005 Mercury Sable.
But it never did work, he said.
"I'm glad they are doing something about it," Johnson said.
Latest press story on Dennis: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/06/passaic_county_inventor_agrees.html
Dennis's followers claim he is retired, It's hard for me to picture him
really handing off to anyone else. I dunno - but the FTC case is going
strong.
The following link is interesting - It is a clear transitional web page
between HAFC Dutchman and Genesis Combustion Enhancement
System GCES. http://bwt.jeffotto.com/hafc-1.htm
You can see an example of a web page that had been Dutchman and is now
the new look for Genesis Technology Systems : http://www.preignitioncc.com/lewey/
Someone connected with the old business and the purported new business
claims Lee is not involved but seemed rather hostile when I offered to
arrange credible independent validation for either "technology".
Dealers have complained to me how Dennis does not allow them to sell
dealerships to others. Dealership ownership is always under the
continuous new stipulations made up by Dennis. I've heard but can't
confirm that dealerships are being sold for the new Genesis operation
and that Dutchman stickers on product are peeled off and replaced with
Genesis stickers.
Lots of Lee's followers have blamed their total business collapse on
me. That is absurd, if it worked, there would be no way even
intentional lying could hold something that fantastic back. I am only
one of many many people who have been for years pointing out false
claims by Lee and he is afraid to debate any of us in a public forum.
People lost their money because HAFC doesn't work - pure and simple. If
the problem was just the car's computer than it should work on old cars
with no computer. Many people have had cars damaged by HAFC, it may
void warranties and appears to violate EPA regulations. Dateline episode on
Dennis
For people who bought trainings, kits, dealerships, ad buys,
etc based on false info - the best FTC contact is Josh Millard (202)
326-2454,
jmillard@ftc.gov You could
try the lame NJ consumer fraud people at (973)
504-6200 and/or your own states AG from: http://www.naag.org/ag/full_ag_table.php
The following is from Byron Peck's newsletter about the long history of
free energy fraud:
Dennis
Lee, Mylow & Boswell
After
sifting through a ton of legal court documents, it is obvious Dennis
Lee has been operating a major scam, to the point of being divorced
by his own lawyer, in part for not paying legal fees. The bottom line
is his HAFC does not work as claimed and he lied about it during
initial court appearances.
It
turns out that Mylow, who is really Jose Enrique Concepcion was using
a small electric motor with fishing line to pull off his magnet motor
hoax, and the tales about NSA agents were all made up. This reminds
me of what Troy Reed was trying to do with his huge magnet motor
nearly 20 years ago when we caught him using a small maintaining
motor, cooled by a muffin fan to keep the motor going. After we
confronted him on that, he immediately stopped promoting that
particular apparatus.
Then
we come to Boswell with his supposed free energy wind turbine. The
whole thing smells fishy to me, even though cloaking would be a good
way to proceed with something like that, I just don’t believe
that’s what has taken place. Boswell has resisted attempts for
third party validation while at the same time making wild claims on
his You-Tube video postings. At this time I believe Boswell is
running a scam, if I am wrong I will be happy to retract that
statement and apologize, but I don’t think I’m wrong.
I close with a post to the hafcpicc email list :
>To: hafcpicc@yahoogroup s.com
>Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 9:15 AM
>
>Does anything work??
>So far all I have found that works is a good tail wind. Or drafting
a Truck...
>I have been working for a year, first with the HAFC by Dutchman, 14
cars and trucks and no real gains, one run in a couple with great
mileage but it would not happen a second time… So I am not a newbe, I
have done the work…
>
>There seems to bee hundreds of sites claiming cars run too rich and
waste fuel, yet when I lean out the gas 15 to 1 or 16:1 even higher
like 20:1 all I get is lost of power and LESS MILEAGE....
>
>Adding HHO same thing, lost of mileage. Even up to 4 LPM does not
help.
>
>Changes to the car's sensors only fool the Scan gauge II, but at
the pump it either stays stock (28 to 30MPG) or loses some....
>
>I am starting to fear we are believing in Santa Claus, a great idea
but a fable...
>
>So again has anyone really got a good modern Fuel Injected car like
a 2000 Ford that gets 30MPG stock to do more, like 40MPG??
>
>And again something that is a add on, not motor, or gear changes...
>I am talking about simple add ons.
>
>No major rebuilding the engine with special heads and valves and
groves etc.
>
>Things like water, steam, HHO, computer mods, these things, anyone
got a system that is ready to go and can be installed on car and REALLY
give real world MPG improvement? ?
>
>And priced right, the idea of spending $2500.00 and getting 10 MPG
seems so wrong.
>
>Rich
July 10th 2009 is just one more of many times in the last quarter century that Lee has promised to have a real demonstration of free electricity. For many years he has promised to demonstrate free electricity in stadiums all across the country on a July 10 - Telsa's birthday. Lee has recently talked a lot about shifting his operation overseas. I've seen no evidence the new Genesis company has really taken off. Dennis has started to openly admit people just
don't get the promised HAFC mileage. Of course he says it is because car
manufacturers in a dozen countries all conspire to intentionally get
poor mileage even though most are losing billions. Not much more news on his promise to sue them all. If they do make
the car computer programs to intentionally get poor mileage - all one
would have to do is prove the technology on a pre 1984 car with no
computer on board. This is ignored as well as my and others offer of
thousands of dollars for real proof of a 50% or better gain. Seems no
one in the HHO boost community can show real proof. A link below to a million dollar offer for proof of water gas working. http://www.aardvark.co.nz/hho.shtml Dealers should realize that my negative information on HAFC has only saved them money from even more kit refunds they would have to be making out of their own pockets about now. Many of these people are badly hurt from having leveraged out to pay huge down payments on 6 figure dealerships - but then having to come up with kit refunds for the hundreds of kits that just don't work.
Lee has been offering high mileage claims that don't work for the
last 7 years going back to his having joined with Paul Pantone (now in
jail or in an aslyum or something). The following is a story on the
government taking down another super high mileage claimant: Ozzie
Freedom http://tinyurl.com/n7n333 That
story mentions Lee and the ongoing FTC prosecution against him. Lee
claims that he is not involved in a new "Genesis" company pledged to
sell old HAFC kits slightly modified with a new name - but there is a mention of Lee getting royalties from the new company. It is my
understanding from dialogging with the EPA and checking regulations that
it is just not legal for individuals to install these kits - but I am
not 100% sure of my interpretation. There have been a number of
different support forums in addition to this one committed to trying to
help anyone to get it to work.
A commentary about FTC vs Lee: http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/3695-the-water4gas-scam-hho-scam?comment=15330#comment-15330
The following is an open letter from Lee as posted by a dealer:
Dear HAFC Buyers, Please let us explain something to you about the Hydro-Assist Fuel Cell kit that you purchased. It works! It works pretty much all of the time! The technology makes sense when applied to an internal combustion engine concept. If you burn fuel more thoroughly and release more energy in a shorter interval of time, then more of the potential energy will be applied to the pistons. That, in turn, will be converted to power on the wheels and less of the fuel will hit the exhaust (unburned) to be burned in the catalytic converter. There is no question that the concept will work. It
has to work. The problem is that the auto manufacturer has programmed the computer to restrict the efficiency so the fuel will not be burned, because unburned fuel causes carbon and sludge to build up and that will wear out the engine faster and encourage you to buy another car. It is called ”planned obsolescence.” The real challenge is to overcome the computer system that was designed as the gatekeeper. That is why your car will get an increase in efficiency until the computer learns our system and then it will no longer get the increase. Why else would the efficiency fall off? If this explanation makes sense to you, then we need to discuss what can be done about this after we explain why this has caused us to, collectively, be where we are. We have discovered (the hard way) that very few of the mechanics today can get past the computer. Most mechanics can easily install the HAFC kit, but getting past the
road blocks the manufacturer put in the way is another story. It takes an unusual skill that only those technicians who have had a lot of training on the computer system are able to achieve. The interesting thing is that the car dealers of every major brand of vehicle are required, by contract with the manufacturers, to employ at least one technician who has been to all the training programs to more fully understand the computer. These technicians are much more sought after and usually not looking for a job. Dutchman Enterprises has trained over a thousand mechanics and had planned to train ten thousand of them. Less than 5% of those trained have the skills to get past the computer and properly tune the system for the HAFC. The ones we needed are working for the car dealers already for good pay and benefits and are not looking for a job. We tried to get our devices that addressed the computer problem to be
sophisticated enough to allow that percentage of mechanics who can do it to be much higher, but we were not successful in our efforts. When we started, for a long time we did not realize there was a problem due to the initial success we had. When we realized that the savings was being achieved and then stolen, we discovered it was not as easy to do as we had thought; we tried to do all sorts of things to change our training and recruitment programs to improve the odds. We developed upgraded training programs. We hired experts in this area to not only develop better training, but also to more fully develop our devices. We went from a 1X Optimizer to the ultimate 4X Optimizer we have been on the cusp of perfecting for over a year. We also discovered that just as we figured out how to do one model or up to a particular year of vehicles, we had to overcome a whole new generation of thinking on their part for newer vehicles.
In other words, the newer the make and model of vehicle, the more complex it is. Each new breakthrough, we thought was the breakthrough we needed to only discover that there was a new AFR sensor, that we had not figured out, that had taken the place of the 02 sensors that we had figured out. This simple modification kit turned into a major research project. Since we began this in earnest in 2007, the car makers have even modified this computer system to be able to reprogram it by satellite. In the case of the cars that are only a couple of years old, if we do install the kit and then have the right expert tune it, the car maker can un-tune it by just sending a signal by satellite through the GPS system even if the customer does not take that option. The customer would have to disconnect the GPS fuse. I do not know how this makes you feel, but it is pretty upsetting. I am, personally, in the process of initiating a suit
against every carmaker that sells cars in the USA in a class action suit on behalf of all the car owners. It would be very easy for them to correct this. All they have to do is reprogram the computers and flash the chips at the car dealer’s location. All they have to do is NOT restrict the performance. I would love the opportunity to prove in a court of law that what I am saying is true. Did they tell you BEFORE YOU BOUGHT THE CAR that they deliberately restricted the ultimate mileage of your vehicle so that it could never get better than a maximum level of fuel efficiency predetermined by them? No? That is fraud, deception, misrepresentation, and some other things. One thing that can be done is that you can join my class action in the event I am right. Just send the dealer who sold you the kit a letter or an e-mail letting me know you want to join in. The dealer will pass it on. It will cost you nothing. I believe you
will recover the cost of your kit and any money you spent installing it plus any loss in the form of, direct costs, inconvenience, lost fuel economy, lost interest on the money you spent, any suffering, and whatever else the lawyers can think of. But, what else can be done? One thing you need to know and that is that the ones hardest hit by this are the Dutchman kit sales dealers. These independent business persons thought they were selling something worthwhile and they were. It should have been easy to achieve the results. They honestly sold you the kit that they believed would help you, and, in fact, it does work. If they just had the right expert working on it there is a huge likelihood it would be working right now. That is why Dutchman Enterprises negotiated with some very deep pocket investors to invest 23 million dollars into the technology and take it to the car dealers across America through a program they called
Genesis. While a test pilot for the project was underway, and only a number of days from completion, a terrible thing happened. Absent any actual complaints, the FTC attacked Dutchman Enterprises. It tried to put the company out of business by claiming that it was impossible for the technology to work. Funds were frozen for months, and all progress was halted by a temporary injunction. Of course the deal with the deep pocket investors was off. There was a legal contest and Dutchman won when it proved in court that it was, indeed, possible for the technology to work. While Dutchman won that battle, it lost the ability to continue with its project. Dutchman also lost the contract for a big company to take over the technology. But, Dutchman did prove that it could recruit the car dealers who are in the position to make everyone’s dreams (including their own) come true. The answer is for the Genesis project to go forward
through car dealers across America and let the top expert mechanics of Dutchman be the yeast that can raise all the car dealers of this country to the project that can save them and our consumers and dealers. If that makes sense to you then we need your support. As a matter of practicality, he dealer who sold you the kit may be incapable of buying it back. Dutchman Enterprises is out of business thanks to the FTC. Their actions killed the company at its highest potential and moment of it’s most vulnerability. Although Dutchman lost the original deal, there is a group of independent business persons nationwide who was on line as a back up to that situation. They are not nearly as well funded as the original croup, but they have agreed to take over the Genesis project and recruit all the car dealers to install a modified kit they call the Genesis Combustion Enhancement system. We believe they are capable of pulling
it off, and are prepared to open as many as 50 major cities in the USA prior to the end of July this year. That means that there should be a car dealership who specializes in your vehicle recruited somewhere near your location in the near future who will have a trained and certified mechanic that can determine whether or not the computer system on your car can be overcome to tune your car to the HAFC kit you bought. If the genesis mechanic is unable to tune your car, they may take your car in trade in on a car they have already modified in their used car lot. These car dealers will also be qualified to authorize you a refund in the event they are unable to do it and you do not wish to trade in you car for one they have successfully modified. In that event, Dutchman Enterprises will use their royalty income from selling the technology to Genesis to pay for your refund in the event your Dutchman dealer is unable to provide
the funds to do so. As I wrote at the beginning of this paragraph, the dealers were the hardest hit by all this. If anyone has been hurt by these events, they are the hardest hit by a situation that was none of their doing. So, there is a plan to make this turn out right for everyone. We were NOT the ones who programmed the computers to reject the savings. If there is someone at fault it is the car manufacturers. We discovered that reality innocent enough. We were NOT able to find or train enough of the technicians we need to overcome this. We were not able to make that magic box that can be adjusted by guys who are not skilled in the on board computers, but we should not have had to. We tried to get the deep pocket help to get this to the guys who could do it (the car dealers) when we discovered we were over the heads of most mechanics out there. Our test pilot ultimately proved we could recruit the car dealers,
but we lost the deep pocket investors. There is lots of inventory available through the Genesis project. They have almost twice as much inventory on hand now than the total number of kits Dutchman ever sold. They are going for the car dealers in 50 major cities right now. Your dealer who sold you your HAFC kit, through special arrangement between Dutchman seller and Genesis buyer, will eventually be able to set up an appointment to have your HAFC kit installed with one of the car dealerships nearest you This HAS to be done by appointment ONLY! It should be ready to happen sometime after the month of July. Your dealer will let you know when. As I have said. The dealers, the mechanics, and the company that developed the technology have worked hard to make this happen for all the customers involved. Too bad the carmakers were so deceptive. We may someday be able to force them to cooperate with reprogramming their computers,
but in the meantime, we want to do all in our power to make this right for everyone involved. We hope you accept the spirit of this offer. The only thing the FTC wanted to do was put us out of business. They did not appear to be concerned for the losses of our customers, all the mechanics that were trained, or the innocent dealers. To WIN the legal contest for them is everything. We are not that way. You can see the new Genesis project web site that is not owned at all by the owners of Dutchman or Dennis Lee, at www.AGASSAVER.com It is pretty incredible that they were willing to make this gesture toward those who have participated in the spirit that that has built this technology. It certainly will be goodwill for the industry when this works out well for everyone and we can help bail out the innocent car dealers who are also victims of the deception of the car makers. All our best in a difficult situation, Dennis
Lee (Dutchman Enterprises. LLC
Lee's lawyer, Jack Wenick of the firm Sills, Cummis & Gross was
allowed by the court to withdrawal from the ongoing FTC case against
Lee and Dutchman. Lee's lawyer had
accused Lee of being totally unreasonable, implied he was insisting on
invalid delays being filed and wasn't paying his bills. (makes you
wonder where all the money went). Lee has mentioned being in Germany
and said that I say he is there to figure out where to hide money. He
has mentioned the possibility of moving out west now that he is being
evicted from their long used Newfoundland NJ compound. I was told
that when the State of Washington prosecuted him in the 80's, he pretty
much just fled - hmm?
One person said they got a HAFC kit on ebay for $114 - I think other
than that, pretty much everyone has just given up on HAFC. Now there is
a new promise of some new device by another company being able to get
them to work. There are said to be thousands of unsold kits out there.
There is aways a promise of something new right around the corner to
get all the various high mileage scams to finally work. But the key
question is "why is there no one who can show HAFC to work after
more than a year of saying thousands of people have gotten it to work?".
With people arguing who owns the broken pieces of Dutchman, the main
web site promoting HAFC and PICC is "temporarily unavailable" http://www.preignitioncc.com/
The promise of rebirthing HAFC under the name "Genesis Technology
Systems" has shown no progress I can find. You can see Jeff Otto's
page half editted from hafc to genesis at
http://bwt.jeffotto.com/hafc-1.htm The Genesis plan was to get
car dealers to promote hafc with a new name - yeah, fat chance of that
happening.
Lee's former business partner, Paul Pantone who Lee learned high
mileage classes and promotion from is out promoting himself - there is
a mocking review of his 2 decades of unsupported high mileage claims at http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/08/your-engine-can-do-the-dew-too/
summary of states where Dennis has been in trouble http://www.declarationofenergyindependence.com/CURRENT%20STATE%20RESTRICTIONS.pdf http://cases.justia.com/us-court-of-appeals/F2/959/240/220419/
- good discussion of Lee's California troubles
Lee supporters usually following Lee's orders to not respond to my
message. The following page is an exception - they imply they have a
working hafc http://www.brilynestates.com/News/report_archives/2009/00012_09.html
They don't seem to post my response which is along the lines of "Like
millions of people on the web who disagree with things they read on the
web - I'm not paid for it. If you really have a working 50% mileage
boost device - be the first to be part of a proper open test. If you
do it for someone of my choosing in your area, I'll fly down to see if
you win a few thousand dollar prize for proof from me and the whole
test would be on video on youtube"
The state of Texas has taken legal action against the next leading
water gas scam out there, "Ozzie Freedom water gas" http://www.oag.state.tx.us/newspubs/releases/2009/042309ozziefreedom_pop.pdf
http://www.fuelmaxlitigation.com/ good web site on another mileage
scam taken down by the ftc
At this point, only hard core deep-in-denial grape juice drinking tin
foil hat wearing dennis fans appear on his call ins. Funny, Dennis
claims to have no money when sued by tax people, state AG's, former
investors or the FTC - but then he claims to have bought out the owners
of Dutchman. For that matter, Dennis has claimed to have been broke
for years, but he has paid high price lawyers to sue me and to beat
back the first FTC assault and has had many people on pay roll and just
took an international trip, etc. I don't think when he sells new
dealerships that he reports that money to creditors. Lately he claims
he is only selling dealership owned by existing dealers on their behalf.
Truth is, I saved dealers a lot of money: Many dealers reported having
a hard time selling kits because of negative information available on
the internet - but some dealers have lost big amounts of money being
responsible for refunding money for kits they can't sell. So my pages
may not have kept some dealers from losing as much money on their
dealerships, but they at least kept many Lee followers from losing more
money having to come up with kit refund money.
I think that and the hopeless promise to sue car manufacturers is
just another distraction when everything is falling to pieces. I
think at this point, only people in hopeless denial are still holding
out hope for hafc. It is still amazing that these people can be
convinced there are thousands of happy customers yet not one able or
willing to openly show it. At least with Lee's last high mileage
promise of seven years ago - TEEG and GEET, he had the excuse that none
of it worked because "the gas companies changed the formula to keep
TEEG from working".
Lee was prosecuted in a number of states by Attorneys General for
various things over the years. The following is some information from
his battle with the state of Vermont and includes a tax return from
Lee's company http://phact.org/e/z/Interrogatories2.pdf
In the tax return mentioned, you can see that in that year the company
only sold 6 figures worth of product - or around 100$ per dealer - not
quite enough sales to cover a six figure dealer cost.
Concerning Lee asking people to join under him in an MLM program called "New
Age Power Brokers" - a lot of warning flags go off on this new
Dennis Lee deal. The following is a post from a blog on the subject:
If it sounds too good to be true...
Let me get this
straight. They cut electric bills for commercial customers by 20-70%.
Then they pay 40% of that to the rep who sold the deal. And then they
pay more $$ on top of that to up to 7 levels above the rep. Yeah,
right. Your BS detection meter should be spiking after reading that and
you shouldn't even needed to ask here about this scam.
Here is a partial write up of a Dennis hotline and according to
Dennis... (in his words)
1. Genesis has a plug and play system. I'm not allowed to
say
they have a working system but I can say that they believe they do have
one and they're getting it going..
2. If they do, then that would mean the USofA dealer's
dealerships should be worth a least 100,000 each..... so send people
down and I will talk to them about it. I'm not selling the
dealerships, but some of the dealers have dealerships to sell.... I
will just talk about it and then they can decide if they want to buy it
from the dealer....
3. I have discovered a great new opportunity for everyone to
get involved with... wholesale electric rates from a legit company! I
can sell things from a legit company! What we do is sign people up
into the program, this company negotiates a bulk rate with the company
they deal with and you get a commission. You can sign up 3 people and
they are added to your pyramid...err, I mean, your next level. And
those 3 can sign 3 and so on and so on.... you get paid 7 levels
down... that could add up to $8,000. per month in your pocket!
"oh Brother Dennis" says the re-occurring man with the
squeaky voice "how can I sign up?"
Well Brother Micheal, you sign up under me! You see I will
be
the top and everything will flow downward. There's a purpose to this.
After we get thousands and millions of people around the nation to sign
into this, I will bring out my free electricity machine and step in and
now there will be no cost to produce the electricity but we will all
profit and control everything! Praise the Lord for revealing this
divine plan to me.......
" Praise the Lord " says the man with the squeaky voice.
So where is the FTC when you need them?
The following is the latest media story to mention Lee in an article
about another leading mileage boost scam: http://tinyurl.com/n7n333
below is a quote from the article:
A July 2008 Consumer Affairs online article quotes
sources that back Simpson up. “All of these device/schemes seem to
promote adding hydrogen to improve the combustion process,” states
Robert Sawyer, professor of energy emeritus at the University of
California, Berkeley. “There is no way it can improve fuel economy by
50 percent, or even 5 percent.”
The same article cites another expert, Frank Andrew, professor of
mechanical and aeronautic engineering at the University of California,
who states, “It’s such a very small amount of hydrogen-oxygen gas that
it is impossible to have any real effect on combustion.”
The Federal Trade Commission filed a fraud complaint against a
convicted felon Dennis Lee, chief operating officer of Dutchman
Enterprises and president of UCSA which markets the Hydro-Assist Fuel
Cell. The complaint states, “Lee is a convicted felon who has been
prosecuted in at least eight states in the past for violating consumer
protection laws. Although there are practical steps you can take to
increase gas mileage, you should be wary of any gas-saving claims for
automotive devices or oil and gas additives. Even for the few
gas-saving products that have been found to work, the savings have been
small.”
The complaint continues, “Dutchman and UCSA have used magazine and
Internet advertisements to mislead potential customers into buying the
kit, based on the false claim that it would increase auto fuel
efficiency by 50 percent or more, and has been scientifically proven to
do so.”
Popular Mechanics senior automotive editor Mike Allen and NBC’s
Dateline teamed up recently to test the water-burning theory. After
rigorous testing, they proved the total improvement in fuel economy is
“too small to measure.” Allen reported in March, not enough hydrogen
can be produced, because it would take “far more electricity than the
onboard generator could possibly produce, and consume most of the power
the engine put out — and it would still not improve fuel economy.”
I own a complete original set of the 3 video tapes that Mr. Lee sold on TV in
1992,under the company name of Conserve Financial Services of America from his
address in Vernon, NJ.
It is in the original package with the original letter sent to my deceased
brother when he bought it. Any buyers out there?
With this package Mr. Lee started his plan to promote his alternative energy
scams, or schemes. I never get those two straight in my mind.
This writer will leave the judgement of Mr. Lee's motivations to the
reader/viewer that buys his materials.
It was Sept 23 1996 or 13 years ago that I went to the Dennis Lee show that was to be a clear showing of free energy and the culmination of a nationwide tour. The promise was made to start installing free energy machines in houses that year and people were brain washed that night after hours to come down and write out forms authorizing their banks to commit them to $10,000 dealerships. My outrage that night led me to commit to providing information to giving such victims a fighting chance to keep from getting ripped off. Information I've since uncovered shows a massive nationwide level of fraud and widespread victims on all levels. It's gotten that there is a secondary tier of followers now committing much of the fraud.. A new source has made it apparent that bigger hafc dealers had early on known it just doesn't work. few of them backed out of selling them with the claim they mostly work - a few rationalized the action with "we will hopefully find a way to get them to work later". There are major hafc players who have essentially conspired through shilling to be part of a massive nationwide fraud - I hope the FTC can get these people and not just Lee.
The courts stipulated preliminary judgment order is described from http://www2.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0823203/090529dutchmanstippi.pdf I believe Lee is violating all kinds of provisions there including just reselling the same stuff with a new name - he was supposed to have retired out of all this, but if you go through getting an account, you can hear him still raising money and promising more big things that will never happen.
So the latest claim is that car dealerships will buy into this. Sure, just like Ford was supposed to have entered into joint development (they since denied any deals). As near as I can tell, the people who paid 100's of thousands to put out full page ads, build kits, buy kits, train to tune kit or install kits have all lost huge amounts of money and there is no good proof of any of them working. Large numbers of people have failed to get their money back and many were left with damaged cars. I encourage more people to step forward and speak the truth; - with the FTC case going, Lee can't make good on threats to sue you.
Sammy Burlum did a lot of development work on the HAFC system and
has his own business that has been associated with but independent of
Lee's operations. He still does research into high mileage devices.
He sure doesn't come off looking too good in the Dateline
show. His email is extreme_energy_solutions@...
He says a much bigger amount than I had figured has been defrauded from
dealership buyers. I consider all who have bought dealerships to be
fraud victims because of the false technology claims used to get people
to give money to Lee. Of course once they buy a dealership, they can
not sell it unless Lee (who never stopped selling them) approves. I
still encourage victims of this fraud to give information to the FTC
who is still prosecuting and has often in other fraud cases recovered
money for victims: (202) 326-2454, jmillard@...
Sammy told me that it is ok to release the following statement:
Official
Statement For Eric Krieg
September
23, 2009
Genesis
Technology Systems, is a company that derived from the fall out of
Dutchman Enterprises, LLC. Dutchman was forced to shut down its
operations, after its CEO, Dennis Lee, was forced by the FTC to stop
doing business, due to questionable marking and advertising
practices. Dateline NBC also had influence over the situation by
slamming the device maker’s product, the HAFC Kit. Their testing,
although questionable and just as well inconclusive, provided results
that painted the perception that the entire after market hydrogen
automotive product industry was bunk. Not so the case. Just a
tainted twist used to make an argument.
“There
were many reputable individuals and companies that were and still
working on developing these kinds of technologies. There is always a
few bad eggs that want to spoil it for everyone. Regardless if it
was greed, or mismanagement of the technology, or misrepresentation
of the great strides made by others, those few eggs spoiled the
honest and truth for time to come,” commented Samuel Burlum, Owner
of Extreme Energy Solutions and Vigholator Motorsports; two companies
that are dedicated to the research and development of HHO and H2
technologies, for fuel economy and performance uses. “Most of the
UCSA Dealers, installers, tuners, and sales members are really good
people that just want for America to be a better place to live with a
cleaner environment for our children enjoy and appreciate when they
get older. The Dateline show only investigated into one guy and for
myself, left out over forty-five minutes of valuable information why
this technology was plausible,” stated Burlum.
There
is
life for Extreme Energy Solutions after Dutchman. Extreme Energy
Solutions has all ready been approached by other fuel economy and
performance enhancement product companies, for research and
development, testing, and installation services. At this time we are
exploring all of our options. We will continue to move forward in
the HHO and fuel economy industry. Genesis Technologies, the
purchasers of the Hydro Assist Fuel Cell technology, has not proposed
a contract for our services at this time. Extreme Energy Solutions
will continue to service vehicles all ready outfitted with the HAFC
system, only at the request of those vehicle owners,” stated
Samuel Burlum, of Extreme Energy Solutions.
Genesis
began to form as those concerned individuals came together, putting
self interest aside, and moving forward with the development of the
technology. But as time passes, many secrets began to rise to the
surface. Genesis this time is a company looking to do the right
thing, but the powers behind it, want to perpetuate the same old
thing. Over promise, under deliver. Not the way Extreme Energy
Solutions or Vigholator Motorsports does business. Therefore we will
be very selective with how we do business, promote, and offer a
technology that will always be in the research and development stage.
We are moving into the future on a positive note and will not make
alliances, contracts, or negotiations with scam artist, liars,
cheats, or other characters who are deemed shady. Even if that means
the good side of Genesis has to suffer because of those bad eggs.
Sounds familiar? We are setting gold standards in the green industry
and will be second to none. Those be cautious of whom you buy a
system from, its not the technology, it’s the party who wants your
money that is the problem in this industry.
Extreme
Energy Solutions and Vigholator Motorsports have been involved in
competitive vehicle performance enhancement, as well as other fuel
economy products and processes. For the time being, this will be
Extreme Energy Solutions main stay until contracts are negotiated
with other companies for research and development services. Extreme
Energy Solutions has also explored and expanded it horizons into
other green technologies, and now offering those products and
processes to the general public. As for Mr. Burlum, he is continuing
running his shop and is writing a book about the perspective of one
installer/tuner that was in the center of the HAFC movement,
including what really happened at the FTC hearings and the interview
with Chris Hansen, along with info about Dennis Lee, his enemies and
skeptics, and the technology in question, itself. “Life
in the Green Lane” is
expected to be published late spring of 2010.
I knew Lee's Genesis company would not fool the FTC and would not last
long , but I didn't think it would be over this quickly: The following is from Lee loyalist Jeff Otto's newsletter
update: -
Genesis:
Genesis is dead and
buried but not to worry. The new entity will be called "Distributors
International Co-Op Inc." (DICI), the new product will be known as the
"MMPG System" which stands for More Miles Per Gallon and will be backed
by a 100% customer satisfaction guarantee to include the cost of
installation. The man hired to run Genesis, Eddie Dunn, sent a letter
to Dennis Lee on September 21st wanting to kill Genesis, purchase the
patent rights to both the HAFC and the PICC for a mere $550,000, bring
in new investors and basically expect the UCS of A dealers to trust the
new entity to do the right thing, as Eddie referred to it his "currency
of trust". As you may suspect that floated about as well as would an
iron beam. Genesis and Eddie Dunn is done, so much for the old.
The new MMPG System is true plug and play, make and model specific with
later model American brands to be available and ready for sale in the
next couple of weeks. Foreign manufactured brands will be added over
the next couple of months. There will be a new web site for the
Distributors (UCS of A dealers) not sure as yet if we will be able to
add an affiliate specific code to the end of our distributor number or
not. As you can imagine there is still a lot that needs to be worked
out but the main thing is we have a product that will work 100% of the
time if installed properly on a vehicle that has no underlying
problems! The suggested retail cost of the system will be $1,200.00
plus the suggested installation cost of $640.00.
Mechanics:
Within the next two weeks there will be 8 locations across the US where
interested mechanics may be certified to install the new system and
eventually 1 in every state. These locations will be announced as we
receive the information. The training will be for 3 days at a cost of
$250.00 for existing HAFC certified mechanics or $500.00 for new
students. A laptop computer running Windows XP will be required (a list
of specifications will be available next week) as well as a $399.00
investment for the cost of the interface.
Only DICI certified technicians will be able to install the new system.
The installation time should not exceed 4 - 6 hours and consist of
mounting the fuel cell, wiring in the fuel cell and timer, the
vaporizer (this may be discontinued), charging the system and finally
downloading the program into the ECU. If installed properly it will
achieve a 50% or better increase if there are no prior issues with the
vehicle before installation. Obviously it will be up to the technician
to verify the vehicle is in proper operating condition prior to
installation and if that installation fails to remove the system and
refund any installation charges. The Distributor would be responsible
for refunding the cost of the system.
Manufactures:
It was stated today that DICI is in the process of finalizing a 3,000
fleet deal which will totally deplete the existing kit inventory. I
know it has been a long wait but it is starting to look like that wait
is close to being over. The manufactures will be contacted in the near
future with a list of changes and information on the new packaging and
installation manuals
Lee was said to have retired in June of this year
- obviously he hasn't. I also don't think he has obeyed the court
judgments against him. Kurt Annaheim is a leading dealer still
supporting Dennis. I've heard interesting things about him being
involved in moving money in many of these operations. The following
is email and a web page from Kurt promoting the latest Dennis programs
to get people's money:
To
get the conference call archive and access information information you
may print the following PDF, sign and either fax or email it to Dennis
Lee for inclusion on the conference:
You can get the PDF version of the following by
clicking: here
You can also get it in your affilate back office here
LETTER OF UNDERSTANDING AND AGREEMENT….
The Power Broker hotlines and the Dealer Recruiter Hotlines hosted by
Dennis Lee are ONLY for individuals who have already heard about the
free electricity project of Dennis Lee and have either:
(a) seen the demonstrations of the Hummingbird and
the Sundance live
and already believe in the possibility of these component devices,
publicly demonstrated and tested before (and by) live audiences
nationwide in 1999 and 2001, that are intended to be used to produce
free electricity or
(b) have seen video
taped presentations and/or have had the technology sufficiently
explained prior to coming on the hotlines to already believe in the
possibility of free electricity.
All persons who wish to have the pin numbers to
listen in on the
aforementioned hotlines are aware that Dennis Lee has been enjoined by
the FTC from selling any technologies (or even saying that they will
work) which have not been tested by what the FTC deems to be credible
and reliable testers.
Mr. Lee does not share
the FTC’s faith in these supposed independent testers, and will
not complete the technology until there are great crowds of witnesses
sufficient in size and number to assure an honest and apolitical
appraisal of what he has to offer. He is not even making claims about
what the Sundance or Hummingbird is capable of doing in the future.
Anything anyone believes about that is based upon
what they have seen
or already believe. Thus, the final “working model” of a
free electricity device has not yet been produced anywhere.
All those who have seen (and those who otherwise
believe in) the main
components will have to use logic to decide whether or not the peanut
butter and jelly can, indeed, be used to produce a sandwich.
Dennis Lee is not seeking people who are convinced
that he has the technical capability and are ready to invest in buying
a free electricity machine.
He is just trying
to recruit the crowds of witnesses needed to keep the rich self
interest groups involved, and the politicians they own, at bay until
VERY public demonstrations of final prototypes that he believes he can
make to produce free electricity can be built and demonstrated AND
TESTED EVEN BY THOSE WHO THE FTC WOULD LIKE TO INVOLVE IN THAT PROCESS.
The FTC can even be testing their own model while one
is being
demonstrated for the people in a local stadium. Dennis and his team of
UCSA dealers are willing to pay for 100 football stadiums and possibly
even have free concerts to entertain those invited to attend. They are
seeking NO MONEY from the attendees (witnesses) or from any of the
recruiters who work for the UCSA dealers.
Dennis Lee and the UCSA dealers intend to earn the
money to cover all
the costs of a hundred football stadiums in the USA and the
entertainers by doing legitimate business with opportunities that are
available and do not violate the agreement Mr. Lee made with the FTC.
In fact, they intend to share those opportunities to earn money with
like-minded individuals who are interested in selling regular
electricity through the deregulation plans, but none of the money
earned by those individuals shall be required to pay for the public
demonstrations.
Those who share the vision of
free electricity even without seeing the completed models, and believe
that Lee (et. al.) should have a fair chance to prove their technology,
are invited to attend these hotlines. Critics and naysayer’s are
not welcome.
This is a PRIVATE hotline for believers or those with
open minds and a belief in this version of fair play.
There is a very high likelihood that those who have
been recruited for this project by UCSA dealers, or their associates,
will earn a considerable amount of income in these more conventional
opportunities. We wish to make it clear that, under no circumstances
will listeners EVER be required to share any of that income to cover
the costs of the free electricity project in the event it is possible
to make the project happen.
Listeners will, however, be allowed AT SOME TIME IN
THE FUTURE to
invite their customers that they have sold conventional electricity to,
to the public demonstrations as witnesses who will be allowed to have
an allotment of free electricity in the event of a successful
demonstration of the technology.
ALL
LISTENERS do agree that they are not allowed to share this possibility
with their customers until such time as Lee has announced that the time
has come to share that information, and they will THEN be allowed to
give their customers a formal thank you gift of a free electricity
registration (invitation to attend a stadium concert) ABSOLUTELY FREE
OF ANY CHARGE WHATSOEVER FOR ATTENDING. These witnesses will also be
rewarded IN THE EVENT the demonstrations are successful with an
allotment of free electricity (and possibly a unit on their home) IF
AND WHEN that technology has been proven.
They will also get the opportunity to sign up 9
friends, associates, or
relatives anywhere in the USA or Canada for free electricity as well
under the post demonstration terms and conditions. This privilege shall
cost the witnesses NOTHING EVER. It shall be a FREE GIFT given to them
by the one who sold them conventional electricit6y. BUT, NEITHER THEY
NOR ANYONE ELSE IS TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS POTENTIAL FREE GIFT,
SPECIALLY IN CASE IT NEVER HAPPENS.
Those
listeners who qualify by selling regular electricity to their customers
will be informed of when there are enough witnesses to have the event.
THEN we will plan for it.
Those listeners who
are qualified by having customers to give this gift shall be witness
recruiters for UCSA dealers (see your dealer for details.) This
additional opportunity shall cost them absolutely NOTHING. As witness
recruiters they shall receive all the same benefits of recruiting
witnesses that have been offered over the years to other witness
recruiters. The UCSA dealer has the responsibility to explain the
witness program to the new witness recruiter.
Of course the UCSA dealer has many brochures, essays,
DVD
presentations, seminars and other aids from the past at his or her
disposal to assist the UCSA dealer in the performance of this task. It
MUST be made VERY clear to the listener that this is an extra
possibility for income in the event it becomes, at some later date,
possible for the free electricity project to happen.
THERE ARE NO PROMISES THAT THIS EXTRA THING WILL EVER
HAPPEN. THERE IS
A PROMISE THAT IF AND WHEN IT DOES ALL INCOME WILL BE SHARED The
listener will ONLY be given the pin codes and the number to the hotline
to participate if he or she is in complete agreement with all of the
aforementioned conditions.
UNDER NO
CONDITIONS shall anyone EVER give the numbers or pins to ANYONE else
unless the potential listener(s) first read and agree to the conditions
herein contained. Please give the name(s) and address(es) of the
listener(s) immediately below and have him or her or them sign and
print their name(s) legibly to indicate (by signature that there is
complete understanding and agreement to these terms prior to giving out
the number and pin.
.I, (print your full name)
________________________________________,
have read both of the above pages and do absolutely understand and
agree that I am already a witness recruiter for a UCSA dealer in the
free electricity program, and I do not need to be talked into believing
in the possibility of the technology. I realize that the opportunity to
sell conventional electricity has NOTHING to do with our collective
hope of the eventual football stadium demonstrations. It MIGHT be icing
on that cake, but there are NO promises that it ever will happen. We
are not even sure that there will be enough customers from our
collective efforts to justify the public demonstrations.
The ONLY promise made is that if and when we are able
to have a
successful public demonstration we will go to market in the manner in
which we have reported and we WILL share the income from selling the
electricity in the manner in which we have promised.
Dennis Lee promises that he will make sure the UCSA
dealers pay their
witness recruiters as they have agreed in writing with their
recruiters. The listener/witness recruiter undersigned agrees NOT to
discuss ANYTHING about the free electricity program with ANY of their
customers in advance of being officially notified that the
demonstrations are a “go” so they can sign them up.
AGREED: __________________ Dated: ______________
Your Email Address _______________________________
Fax this filled out, signed and dated agreement to 973-545-2388 If you
have a scanner, you can print out this form, fill it out and email to
ucsofamerica [ at ] gmail.com
Note from your UCSA dealer, Kurt Annaheim:
Because a slave surviellance number (SSN) is part of the sign up for
this program I'm not participating.
This will not hinder you if you want to get involved
and a provision
has been made for that circumstance as Dennis Lee will describe during
these conference calls.
That said, if I'm able when the time comes, I'll be
more than willing to supply free registrations for free electricity to
your customers as your dealer.
I believe the courts are ready to give better sentences to older
con men. Bernie Madoff is getting life.
A convicted felons age and physical condition are no longer a 'get out
of jail card' as stiffer sentencing guidelines become the 'norm' rather
than the
exception to 'send the message'......"you will die in Prison" if you
are not old enough to survive the appropriate sentence.
For example Richard S. Piccoli, the Buffalo-area man whooperated the
Gen-See Capital Corp. Ponzi scheme that targeted Catholic
priests,parishioners and senior citizens, received 20 years.
Hopefully in time, the only new people Lee will con will be fellow
inmates.
The following is a cool message from Sammy to Dennis regaurding the
latest MMPG high mileage claim from Lee:
extreme_energy_solutions@...>
Subject: I know the stuff does not work from Florida!!!
To: dennis
Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009, 3:30 AM
Dennis,
As you are aware, I am not a fan of you, Kurt A, Gates, or anyone
else that has slammed us for questioning your company policy and
procedure. I know you and those are still working together to
perpetuate your con. The word is out. You think we are not liked and
your ranting and raving on the hot lines is going to scare people from
the truth? I have recently tested Gates software, his cable, and timer
circuit. What a big surprise, IT DOES NOT WORK!!! The mmpg system is
just another label going on a box, of outdated inventory, that is now
past its prime. You have Gates standing at an alter on secret
conference calls spilling his heart out that he is the next UCSA Dealer
savior. You guys have really crossed the line from trying to save the
world, to unethical and immoral business practices to sell product that
is not of satisfactory standards to the general public.
I have had a phone call from someone who went to Florida with a
GM, Ford, and Dodge. Gates had installed the stuff on his vehicle,
guess what? It did not hold mileage, not even for the first mileage
run. I had a relative go to class, and said it is nothing more than
more of the same joke, with the exception, those guys cannot tune if
their life depended on it. So you see, we know why you moved things to
Florida from NJ. You and the good old gang want to continue selling
bad product, sell hyped up inflated dealerships, take advantage of
people of means, and continue to sell opportunity to sell "exclusive
products" that can be found all over the Internet retailing for what a
dealer would normally buy the product for.
The reason you cut out Extreme Energy Solutions is not because of
money, its because we brought a level of legitimacy to what was suppose
to be a real business, sustainable product, a real program, that is
actually we found to be a fraud. And so did Eddie Dunn, Bill Hummer,
The Ford people, Other investigative reporters, GM researchers, other
UCSA Dealers. What a nice way to treat people right down the street
who did RMA's at their own expense, of a program and product that did
not operate the way it was packaged, and had to support all of the mess
that you, Lee and gang created, and hid behind your Dutchman cave,
while we at EES got the bangs on our door in the middle of the night
from people from all over the world that had the same logical
conclusion, Lee and gang screwed everyone.
If you really cared about fuel economy, you would have stopped the
program when we recommended, recalled the product, fix what had to be
fixed, then continue, back in September and October 2008, when I warned
you of the feds coming in and shutting down Dutchman. You are an
arrogant, pompous turd that uses religion to maximize your audience,
get them to follow you, and take advantage of them to propel your
agenda, one which is not of being a honest business man. We have been
hurt, and disillusioned, how could a Christian that says he is one way,
do another? Reason is that you don't really give a damn about doing
what is right.
You even made a mockery of our offer to sell out our UCSA
dealership because the club of Lee and gang, didn't want to have
anything to do with EES. It was not extortion, it was what we wanted
as selling a business. Again you twist the truth for your audience to
feel for you and your situation, hanging on all of your words and
blessings to them after they continue to fund your agenda machine with
their life savings.
You do not have to fear us, or be threatened by us. EES is going
its own little way, taking with us our software, our patents, or
rights, and have already submitted to our council contracts that we had
with Dutchman and Lee, about things we developed, like the timer
circuit, and the format for the plug and play system, that you have
ripped off from us, and we yet to see any royalties as to contract.
And I know you are going to say "but you got all that inventory, stuff
from Dutchman FTC fire sale". Remember, you took most of that back
once you felt you were off the hook from the government. So i will
refresh your memory, as well as your listeners. How do I know your
using our ideas? Remember it was a part of the research report we
submitted to you just before you dumped us as third party company.
You, Gates, Kurt A, and many others have put the blame on us for you,
Lee, your own negligence to deal with problems of sub-standard products
and ineffective processes. Now having us out of the way, you can
continue your bad business practices, while trying to choke us out of
business, by cutting us off from a network we helped keep from cutting
your balls off once they found out the truth. Lee is a con, and so is
Kurt A, Gates, Otto, Hall, Bill from CA, and others.
Its a shame, you tell people enough of your lies, Lee, and have
lost so much sight from the truth, that you are convinced you are so
right, and everyone else is wrong. I encourage the UCSA dealer network
to question, does the stuff from Florida work? Has it been dyno
tested, approved by carb, EPA? Have you taken documented testing
results back to the FTC and show that you have cleaned up issues from
the past, while making the improvements to your product? I have
published an emissions chart, and have proven dyno test to show EES
product and processes to a degree works. Is it market ready. NO. At
least I admit its not all ready yet. We know exactly what year make
models can be done. Gates, Kurt A and company continue to avoid the
question. You have more than no proof. You have absolute no proof of
a working sustainable product. Yet you continue to sell more
dealerships based on whats coming. See its not really about the past.
Its not about a working product, its about the con. The more Lee and
gang can control the information, the longer he can continue the con.
Let this be a warning to all who follow Lee, Kurt A, Gates, and
company followers. Do not make business decisions based off of
desperation of unloading kits. Do not assume they have it. They must
publish real results, and with third party verification, to show
whether they have a product or not. I have gotten calls from people
who went to Florida and the system did not work. What, you were afraid
of and Gates was afraid of is that we would find out your product does
not work. Wow, what a surprise. Dealers, do not sell DICI MMPG,
Genesis or HAFC with out the warning that it is not finished, its at
your risk, as is. Do not continue to eat more of the problems in the
wallet. The structure of this thing is the same as before (Dutchman
and Lee plan) to get this thing out. Federal Warning from my relatives
that are high ranking government officers: If this goes out just the
way that it is, they will not only have FTC pursuit case against Lee,
UCSA dealer network, in civil matter, but other agencies are lining up
for the chance to pursuit criminal charges, and they are ready to do so
as soon as the the first MMPG system does not work. Oh yeah remember
in the beginning of this letter I mentioned that I know some one who
had one GM, Ford, Dodge not work, he can't get his money back. He
knows he won't get it back. Just like when he bought a hafc for each
and it didn't work.
He was told "oh just wait for the Picc, its just around the
corner. You won't wanna loose your spot in line for that." He heard
that 2 1/2 years ago. At this time we are more than around the
corner. We should be half way across the world and back. Now the same
guy has heard it again.
You continue down this road and you all can tell the judge the
same thing. Maybe if you promise him a picc just round the corner or
50% more guaranteed with a product that does not work as marketed, the
judge might just allow you more weekend visits of your followers and
allow conjugal visits for good behavior.
Sam
Extreme Energy Solutions
Vigholator Motorsports
Samuel Burlum/Herb Wolff UCSA Dealership
Our Vote is Not TO SUPPORT DICI or MMPG system, or MITS, it does
not work and it is not tested ready for no market.
By the way, the guy from Germany, that you took $250k of his money
for a dealership, stopped by our shop looking for you, wondering where
have you been. You took his money and not have delivered as promised.
Hey UCSA dealers, sounds familiar?
----lastly, news on other free energy scams out there
---------------------------------
Sterling
Allan has been scamed by some of the free energy con men in the past,
he reports on many of the crooks. In the following article,
he exposes the Magniwork scam: http://www.off-grid.net/2009/10/08/magniwork-energy-internet-scam/
People,
I don't know what is up with the FTC lawsuit - there should be more
posted from the discovery process. Lee had done an amazing job of
stretching out that case. A large number of people have gone to the
authorities and the hope is that the G-men will do more than states'
attorneys general did to stop this career criminal.
Lee and followers don't mention
that they never got the earlier GEET, TEEG, H A F C or Genesis mileage
boost systems to work.
Sammy
Burlum had been into high mileage claims, got caught up trying to get
Lee's H A F C to work and now openly says that Lee and company are
crooks and that the latest M MPG system simply doesn't work.
The following is one of the more recent web pages promoting Dennis's
new MMPG program: http://www.mpgultimate.com/site_info.php?id=81
It should be obvious that this is just HAFC with a new name - they
claim to offer a money back guarantee, but the HAFC victims were
supposed to have had one too..
I'm sorry I have no new info on the FTC prosecution - the latest legal
filings are just not publicly accessible yet. Last I was able to look
up, the discovery is supposed to be done about now.
I have a good inside source who went through the whole training
program with a large group. Much of his description of specific people
losing big sums and not getting HAFC to work and some personal stories
of creepy interactions with Dennis I can not pass on with out
compromising my sources anonymity. The following is some of what he
sent to me:
Dennis is great with using loopholes, fine print, and a lot
of over looked phrases that count him out of being the blame in
everything he does. I will agree to that depiction of him. It took me
until after that class to decipher a lot of the mixed readings I got
while there. You're in a room with 30 men, sharing their life stories,
3 instructors and Dennis, for five days. It still wasn't enough to
uncover everything in that length of time, so at home when things got
weird I started putting it all together and remembering things people
had said, and what importance it was to the big picture.
Dennis mentioned always finding bugs planted everywhere
including home, vehicle, and shop building. I questioned that in my
head, as to how someone could gain access to his "fortress" i may as
well call it. He must have read the look, because he said "the MAN can
do anything" referring of course to government agencies I'm sure.
Dennis Demo'd the lawnmower engine running on anything, he demo'd
a Vespa scooter with the same set up installed on it, and allowed a
select few to ride it around, however I didn't get that opportunity.
Like I told you before he showed us the hummingbird motor, in
motion, but no proof that it was doing anything or that it was not
running on electricity or other means...so I wasn't excited. If i can
think of any of the other stuff, i'll tell you in a separate e-mail.
I didn't go to a performance where Dennis specifically tried
to sell dealerships but by the end of our 5 days he was bringing it up
more and more.
A typical Dennis victim: Generally in his thirties or
older. You have to pay to play first, and younger guys usually just
don't have a thousand dollars to blow on a class most likely out of his
state. The guys in their thirties and forties plan to employ people to
install and tune for them. The guys fifty and older, looking to invest
a lot of money in hopes of a very quick turn around. People from all
walks of life. Most are single, divorced, widowers.. Of all things,
for probably 80% of the class to have in common...they did not want
their pictures taken as an individual, but most agreed to a group photo
by Dennis's staff. The site of a camera made these guys get away like
you were chasing with a branding iron. I still to this day am baffled
about that. Oh and one last thing about the profile...I noticed a
strong similarity in many of these mens backgrounds. Military. Seemed
like every one of them had a story about aliens, ghosts and serving the
military. One of them looked like he could die tomorrow, that old.
Most times when Otto was out of country, it was Florida and
New Jersey. I guess we better get those states registered as their own
personal countries now eh? Just a little sarcastic humor for thought.
In the beginning dealers were convinced because they got to
see real results from real people. Dealerships needed to be purchased
right away because Dennis wouldn't want a cars computer to turn back to
factory parameters and make the evidence false before they purchased
dealerships. So they had the proof in the pudding I guess, enough to
make the dealerships sell. It was only a matter of time. I know a few
dealers, to not lose their ass, continued to market the cells even when
they knew they couldn't continually provide the results. Once the kits
proved themselves at least one good time to a decent sized crowd,
dealerships got offered, money got spent, and supply was minimal. Once
a dealer spotted relapsing mileage and asked questions, guess what? No
supply. You are so very close to uncovering all of their secrets.
The cell itself works, in saying that it produces hydrogen. Try
unhooking a hose and filling a balloon with it. See if it's real
hydrogen, tie a knot and make a wick out of paper towel. Light it and
get away, see if it doesn't have extreme energy capabilities for
yourself. Does it make enough to increase power in a car when induced
properly? Yes. Does hydrogen alone answer the problems of cars fuel
mileage? No. The optimizer was their hope. Mike invented the
optimizer. It does in fact adjust sensor readings/outputs in a car.
It does give signals to the computer via multiple sensors that allows a
change in injector pulse width modulation, and can cause a reduction of
fuel requested by the engine via downstream sensors by essentially
lying to the computer. Again as I said in previous e-mails, detection
logic pulls the computer back to basic parameters soon-after. All the
hydrogen does is supplement for the lacking presence of gasoline that
was slightly withdrawn via optimizer. Thus it is only providing the
power that you lost after reducing gasoline intake.
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