BioPerformance Fuel

[cafasco]

What about adding some of that powder or a pill to your fuel tank to improve MPG as well as performance?

A good friend of mine tried to talk me into joining this BioPerformance Fuel MLM (he ment well...just got caught up in the **). It's a great opportunity he says. I told him I would not join without trying a free sample first. More over, I was concerned about putting something I'd never heard of in my tank. He hammered me on all the company sales balony. I wouldn't bite, so he gave me a bottle as long as I documented my fuel mileage for 10 tanks.

I was very skeptical...for good reason. He was claiming up to 30% better MPG...ya right. There are no miracle mpg improvers. If there was, GM utilize it to save their SUV sales to keep them from going into bankruptcy.

Anyway, my 3.5L G6 mileage did improve from 30.2 to 30.9. The engine ran smoother at first, but now is starting to run a little ruff. Turns out, as I found out last night, this BioPerformance Fuel crap (made in Mexico City) is what moth balls use to be made of...naphthalene, which is banned in the US. It is highly toxic pesticide that attacks red blood cells, as well as the liver. It is absorbed through the skin. No wonder why my one of my lymph nodes in my neck swelled after getting some of that powder on my face. It does, however, improve the octane rating, but is very dirty and creates carbon build up with extended use...no more for me. I'm turning this stinky bottle of toxic powder into the EPA tomorrow!

http://www.dallasobserver.com/Issues/2006-05-25/news/feature.html

The good thing is that BioPerformance is virtually shut down at this point, at least in Texas anyway.

Thinking of putting some magic powder or a pill in your tank...THINK AGAIN!

 

[psudaytona]

With gas being kinda high its only gonna get worse. Any time there is a panic, these creeps come out of the woodwork.

EDIT: I should note that Naptha is an additive is a few fuel system cleaners, as it is used as a solvent. Gumout gas mileage improver lists it as an ingredient. Here is an example http://msds.walmartstores.com/cache/36325_1.pdf

 

[Bio-T]

BioPerformance

 

[Strjock81]

Here is my own little story about good ole' BioPerformance:

I called this company out on the carpet a couple months back when they talked about how biodiesel was hard on fuel systems because it was "low in lubricity", etc. I wrote them a rather long email that called them out on several claims they made, and did so in a not-so-nice manner. I also let them know that I, as a farmer, did not care to see my product misrepresented in a public domain. I got a response a week or so later asking me to call a number to discuss this with one of the higher ups in the company.

Intrigued, I went ahead and called them and was forwarded to a Mr. Lowell Mims, who spoke with a nice Texas twang, and he proceeded to try and get me to take on a dealership for the very product I had ridiculed and degraded over the course of several paragraphs in my email! I believe they gave him the wrong preparatory information prior to my being forwarded to him, and when I let him know why I was calling and what my major beef(s) were with the way the product was being marketed, he stated it was simply an oversight that one of the new web people had allowed onto the site.

"In fact," he said, "We are dedicated to the renewable fuels industry in the U.S. and to lessening our dependence on foreign oil." "We feel our product will further enhance these clean burning, high quality fuels." Nice catch. We then got into a discussion on biodiesel, etc., and he stated that they were going to be getting into the biodiesel production market, and were looking for investors. I hastily ended my conversation with this fraud shortly thereafter, and received two more voicemails from him afterwards wanting me to join in--apparently they had caller ID.

I hope no one was suckered into ponying up money for this scam artist.