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Ramar Effect: New herbal wonderfuel to hit market on October 3

Ramar Pillai's latest ''invention'', called Tamildevi herbal fuel, apparently a cheaper alternative for petrol and diesel, will hit the ultimate test track -- the marketplace -- on October 3.

Pillai, who has resurfaced with the claim of making the new fuel "in just two minutes", plans to flood the marketplace with his fuel manufactured in a factory at the western suburb of Virugambakkam near Madras.

At a news conference in Madras, he distributed bottles containing a litre of his "wonderfuel" with a label proclaiming that "this is indeed the wonder substitute for petrol". The fuel tastes sweet and smells like nailpolish.

However, he had a word of caution for newspersons who wanted to try out his fuel in their vehicles -- "please remove all the petrol in your vehicles and use my fuel".

Pillai confessed that he had wrongly stated that his earlier fuel was petrol, which, according to him, led to several complications including the country's scientific community rejecting his claims and expressing doubts over his process. However, scientists at the University of Madras had accepted the veracity of the experiment conducted by him in January last, he claimed.

Pillai said he had applied for process patent of his fuel, which, according to him, had been made with a herb found in the western ghats near his hometown of Rajapalayam.

UNI