In the current state of affairs, saving money on gas while increasing gas mileage is a big deal. Sure, you can follow the age-old advice handed down by your father and grandfather. They'd tell you to brake less, step on the gas a little slower, make sure your tires have plenty of air in them, whenever you can coast-do it, step on the gas only when going downhill, go easy on the gas when going uphill, instead of taking multiple trips or different trips when running errands, try combining them so that you are going to multiple places in one or two trips. Lighten the load. You've probably heard these countless times. In fact, you might be comparing this same age-old advice to your children by now.

But the fact of the matter with all those pearls of wisdom is that deep down, you realize that you, at best, will probably only save a couple of gallons by performing all those little things, out of every fill-up. What a big waste of time all that is, for so little return. Is it really even worth it? I'm sure what you're after, what would cause a big old smile to crack through the creases of that concerned face you've been sporting, is to look at your odometer and then at your gas guage, and to notice something real, something significant.

Well, I found something you might want to take a closer look at. Taking a stroll across the worldwide web, I've run across a few websites that show the possibility of using alternative fuel sources to run your car's engine. More specifically, these sides are talking about using water as the alternative fuel source. Not to sound misleading, these sites are not talking about pumping pure H20 into the gas tank, foregoing your local neighborhood gas station altogether, although that would be nice. No, these sites are advocating the use of hydrogen conversion kits.

Skeptics abound, of course, but they are often complaining about the misconception of the car's seemingly losing 100% water instead of mixing hydrogen with the gas. But I'm wondering how long these skeptics are going to grumble when they have to pump more and more money from their wallets to their tanks in the weeks and months ahead.

If you have a scientific bent to your disposition you could probably take to the material quickly, but even if you failed science class miserably, I think I can run through the concept with you now, and you'd walk away with a fairly decent understanding of how “water cars” operate.

As I said above, you're not exactly mixing hydrogen-or water- in with the gas in your tank. Instead, what's happening is you are placing a small conversion kit inside your car's engine that will use a small electric current from your car battery, sending it to a little container of water.

Why the electric current? This is where high school science and chemistry would be useful. Essentially, you use an electric current to split apart water molecules, taking the hydrogen parts and separating them from the oxygen molecules. This creates what is called HHO gas. This gas is then sent to the intake system of your car's engine. Here it mixes with the air/fuel mixture that is already there, and it's burn, baby, burn. More efficient and clean.

It's that simple. The best part is that all the parts you need to put a kit in your car yourself (or by a trusted mechanic) can be found at your local hardware store, and only for the price of a tankful of gas. So you'd get your investment returned to you quickly.