Re: Check your facts before you insert your foot in your mouth on BioPerformance

You should use something that actually has been tested and verified to
save gas mileage according to th DOT.
They found 8% to 27% increase. Works on diesel too:
http://www.rxp-gas-kicker.com



gringo wrote:
ChatterBox wrote:
by Erik Rush
Texas AG in Bed with Big Oil?
May 29, 2006 12:54 PM EST


The news release of Wednesday, May 17, 2006 on the home page of Texas
Attorney General Greg Abbott's website read "Abbott Shuts Down
Dallas-based Bioperformance For Peddling Fake Fuel Pills In Pyramid
Scheme". The release went on to explain that the Attorney General
"filed a lawsuit and obtained a temporary restraining order and asset
freeze against Texas-based BioPerformance Inc. The company, organized
as an illegal pyramid scheme, markets a fuel pill it falsely claims
will boost gas mileage and save consumers money." A drastic move on
the AG's part, and a crushing blow for any business, to say the
least.

And very, very interesting if you read on.

Normally, I am pathologically suspicious of companies that utilize the
multi-level / network marketing paradigm, since there are perhaps
hundreds of appallingly dishonest companies in that industry and
hundreds of thousands of Americans who have been burned by them. There
are also companies in that industry that are extremely ethical and
above board.

A couple of reasons I took notice of this story:

1. Its timeliness with regard to the recent machinations of Big Oil and
escalating fuel prices.
2. I happen to know several satisfied distributors and customers.

Some time ago, a successful businessman (in another industry) who is a
friend of mine gave me some of this fuel additive to test. After
researching the company, I decided to give it a try. And what do you
know? I experienced, as advertised, a significant increase in my gas
mileage.

As I've said previously, my political loyalties take a back seat when
someone is doing the wrong thing - or the right thing - for the
people of America. We all know that there are level-headed Democrats
and liberals as well as posturing, hypocritical Republicans and
conservatives.

You see, I've followed similar cases very closely, and cheered when
the Federal Trade Commission or some other agency took down a company
that richly deserved to be taken down. Generally speaking, cases
against these companies arise due to disgruntled customers and
distributors who have every reason to be disgruntled; they approach
attorneys or the appropriate state or federal agency and get the ball
rolling.

No so with the case against Bioperformance. According to the AG's
press release, he filed the lawsuit himself. Alleging "violations of
the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and the promotion of an illegal
pyramid scheme" (which even thriving companies like Amway, Herbalife
and Mary Kay have faced in various forms), Abbott claims that
"[Bioperformance's] claims are bogus; the pill does absolutely
nothing to improve gas mileage."

I wonder what Abbott plans to do when Bioperformance's attorneys
parade their (estimated) 60,000 satisfied customers and distributors
into court and present their ISO (International Organization for
Standardization) 9000 test results, as well as their other scientific
verification that their product indeed does work.

So of course I decided to look into this Greg Abbott guy. And what do
you think I found? Big Oil connections up the wazoo. It appears that
Texans have been pressing for some time for Abbott to lay bare his
business dealings with one John Colyandro, a central figure in the Tom
DeLay-TRMPAC money-laundering scandal who also served on Greg
Abbott's campaign payroll during the same time frame in 2002.
Colyandro is also the spokesman for Koch Holdings, LLC, which owns a
group of companies engaged in trading, operations and investment
worldwide. According to their profile, these companies "have a
presence in nearly 60 countries in core industries such as trading,
petroleum, energy..." In short, the company is involved, among its
many other interests, in Texas crude oil production.

Of course, the blogs are replete with opinions on Bioperformance. Some
who've never tried the product are sure it's a scam simply because
it's an MLM. I'll admit that's the way I would have leaned
without having proof otherwise. Many others provide anecdotal evidence
of being introduced to the fuel additive by a friend of a friend and
are blissfully happy with their results.

There are few things that raise as much frustration and are a threat to
our national economy, as well as personal and business finances, as
escalating gasoline prices. It's bad enough when Big Oil itself
engages in practices deserving of prosecution under RICO (the Racketeer
Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act), but it's even more heinous
when Americans like Greg Abbott - who are beholden to uphold the law -
conspire to quash commerce and industry's efforts to give Americans
respite from this national economic crisis.


see story here.....
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/14939.html


Your claims about this produce are ludicrous. You may believe in them,
but your beliefs don't affect the pill's performance. The engines can
burn only so much fuel, dude--and only so little. An internal
combustion engine cannot operate without sufficient liquid/gas
flowing through into the cylinders. Since your little pill
cannot increase the volume of the fuel in the tanks, without
making serious modifications to the engine, it cannot possibly do
very much to increase fuel mileage. Certainly not enough difference
to satisfy the claims your company makes. To believe the hype is to
believe in the toothless fairy. Perhaps you'd do better as an Amway
distributor. They too are a pyramid scheme--they are far more
interested in signing up distributors than about selling their products.
But, hey, an Amway distributor kit contains stuff you can actually use
around the house. I would much rather feed my engine a box of
"Carter's Little Liver Pills" than even one loose crumb lying in the
bottom of your package.


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*fas-cism* (fash'iz'em) n. A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism.
-- The American Heritage Dictionary, 1983

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