Climate Craziness of the Week – greentabs for gasoline

So they changed the name – from BioPerformance to Greenfoot Global. Still a scam.
Maybe someone should forward this article to the Pennsylvania Attorney General, considering they’re using a 412 area code…
Also, don’t forget to go to YouTube and rate the videos as spam/scam.

Its OK – when the current ‘business opportunity’ er, shrivels, they can just change the colour scheme to blue and market the pills for…another use.
Lest you wonder, we had this in Oz a few years ago – as an ASX listed company even. The promoter is doing fine, but the shareholders lost all their shirts.

I took two of these after adding some to my tank and now I have a new, luxuriant growth of hair (I even have to comb a center parting in my back), my libido has been transformed and my appendage has doubled in size.
I believe this was Al Gore’s plan for us all along…./sarc off

Such pitches reek of con. If their so-called product had any merit, they would have the OTR & LTL trucking community lining up in droves and the trade pubs would be abuzz with stories of fleet fuel costs being cut. Hmmmm … nary a peep.

The mirthless First Law of Marketing is this:
1. Half the populace is dumber than average.

Gosh that takes me back
In the late 60’s in the UK with its heavily taxed petrol there were inummerable devices to improve your car’s mileage as well as additives for petrol and oil. Some I remember were the superspark system, essentially a capacitor which gave an impressive spark indeed, the fuel system pressure supply regulator and so forth. Many others too no doubt I have long forgotten. All with wonderful claims.
Petrol additives again many, from Redex, often kept on garage forecourts in a squirty can, and supposed top end lubricant, to carburretor cleaners and even one firm who marketed little lead[ish] balls to put in your fuel tank to Improve Combustion.
Then there were oil additives of course, STP made a major marketing effort, Wynns less so. No idea whether they worked but were much loved by the motor trade for keeping up oil pressure in clapped out engines. Hence the famous 50/50 warranty, fifty yards or fifty seconds.
The only oil additive which did work but was expensive was molybdenum disulphide. This was never used in motor oils but is and remains an essential component of the oils used even today in heavy low speed marine diesels of the larger size. It is far superior to graphite and you can get it as dust in small quantities, something to remember when you help out with your next super mini racer Anthony.
The only motor manufacturer I know of that used it was Ford [England] at Dagenham who not only puzzled other rivals by using a cast iron crankshaft, nodular graphitic iron, and by now long their engines lasted. Molybdenum was their secret.
It was important to the British motorist back then in other ways. The UK had largely gone over to constant viscosity blended oils which can be used all the year round given the mild climate, whereas the Germans stuck to their single grade rock [shale] oils changing grade between winter and summer.
But the blended oils have drawbacks, they could sometimes cause early top end failure and did not work well with vane, as opposed to gear, oil pumps. causing sudden loss of pressure. if a van stuck Molybdenum cures all this.
Today with modern synthetics it is hardly necessary in motor engines with their low loadings.
People forget that modern motor engines can be so compact and light not because of better alloys or design or changes in fuel but essentially because of modern lubricants which allow tiny bearings and give remarkable bore life.
Kindest Regards

“1. Half the populace is dumber than average.”
But it’s generally the other half that have the money.

Richard111 says:
April 25, 2011 at 9:57 pm
Excellent marketing. They know there is one born every minute. Guaranteed profit.
Who was it said “There are none so blind as those who will not see”?
St.John Chrysostom, the Catechal Homilies.

As Millers Oils says, Using this diesel additive will give 10% increase in power due to cleaner burning but this extra power means extra acceleration which gives a higher fuel consumption if used to the full.
So if you exercise the extra performance you get no benefit from the use of any additive, apart from the Millers’ which also lubricates fuel injectors needed with low sulphur diesel fuels. (Yes I still use the English spelling).

a jones says:
April 25, 2011 at 11:00 pm
Gosh that takes me back
In the late 60′s in the UK with its heavily taxed petrol there were inummerable devices to improve your car’s mileage as well as additives for petrol and oil. Some I remember were the superspark system, essentially a capacitor which gave an impressive spark indeed, the fuel system pressure supply regulator and so forth. Many others too no doubt I have long forgotten. All with wonderful claims.
Those were the days for sure. I put the superspark plugs in, (25% saving), the little flat plate with the vacuum operated flapper valve between the carburettor and manifold, 40% saving), the special formula fuel filter on the petrol line, (30% saving), the pellets of Higher Octane Activated Pellets into the tank, (20% saving)
I’d only driven 3 miles when the tank overflowed.

Warren says: (April 26, 2011 at 1:58 am)
I’d only driven 3 miles when the tank overflowed.
Beautiful, Warren!!!