diesel drivers beware!

There's a new scam in town. Watch out for a product called 'Biofriendly
Diesel Additive.' The company makes all kinds of inflated claims for the
product, but guess what...it's 98% rubbing alcohol!

When questions arose in Texas, a newspaper and subsequently news
stations took up the story. Why did the Texas Commission on
environmental Quality allow an unqualified laboratory to conduct tests
with positive results after three labs licensed to conduct these tests
found the product lacking?

Good question. And why did the Commission give its approval to this
product? Well...from their news section, we see that they cleverly hired
an industry insider as a Regional President:

"Cindy Morphew will be joining Biofriendly after serving 13 years as
Vice President for Environmental Affairs for the Texas Oil and Gas
Association (TxOGA)."

Cindy, you're such a tool!

Here is the real concern:

"Now here's the rub: at one ounce per 500 gallons, GreenPlus is so cheap
to use that it will force all other emissions reduction technologies out
of the Texas market. It doesn't matter that the product is 98% rubbing
alcohol and 2% homeopathic bullshit; as long as it has TCEQ approval,
the customer has met its statutory obligations. The Texas market is
worth $40 million. And all that business is going to go to BioFriendly."

BioFriendly is not your friend, diesel drivers! It was founded by Bob
Carroll of ATEG, or American Technologies Group. ATEG went into business
with a company called TradeNet, who manufactured Blue Laundry Balls.

" TradeNet had been distributing a Japanese laundry disk containing
ceramic and metal components that supposedly altered the physical
properties of water, making detergent unnecessary. When the Japanese
manufacturer of the disk decided to pursue other distribution
arrangements, TradeNet began manufacturing a competing product. They
purchased a "structured water" solution from Rod Quinn and Michael
Ainsley of Aqueous Labs, and paid a company in New York to put this into
sealed plastic globes. The result was marketed in 1996 as the Laundry
Solution. "Structured water" is pseudo-scientific nonsense. What Aqueous
Labs was actually selling was ordinary water with blue dye. (Collins
says Quinn was pulling this scam with 5-6 different companies, marketing
competing laundry products, and that Quinn was eventually fined in
Nevada.) Attorneys General in several states began investigating
TradeNet for consumer fraud. Oregon had the balls analyzed by professor
of chemistry Dennis Barnum at Portland State University, who found they
contained just colored water."

Colored water! And now, isopropyl alcohol! Bob Carroll is still trying
to scam the public, apparently. Only, he's switched from using Bob. Now
he's 'Robert Carroll.' That doesn't come up in google searches.

The blue laundry balls were fairly funny. They were blue. They were
round. They were balls.
But, they cost around $40, a high price for some plastic balls filled
with "magic" water.

Bob Carroll...tch. If only he used his promotional poerzz for good,
instead of eevil! BioFriendly diesel additive might be cheaper than
other products on the market. But is it really a good idea to pour
rubbing alcohol into your diesel engine?
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Barb
Chaplain, ARSCC


"Every week, every month, every year, every decade and now
every century, Scientology does weird and stupid things
to damage its own reputation."
-Steve Zadarnowski

"Comparing Scientology to a motorcycle gang is a gross, unpardonable
insult to bikers everywhere. Even at our worst, we are never as bad as
Scientology."
-ex-member, Thunderclouds motorcycle "club"

"$cientology sees the world this way: One man with a picket sign:
terrorism. Five thousand people dead in a deliberate inferno: business
opportunity.

$cientology oozes _under_ terrorists to hide."
-Chris Leithiser

 

Yup. There are always snake oil salesmen out there trying to peddle
something to consumers. Like there's an entrepreneur in Sanger who
sells soybean oil with an additive package for $5000 a barrel in a
pyramid scheme where the distributors rebottle it and peddle it for $20
a quart.

But, off topic, could you please trim the anti-COS signatures? You're
going to attract Phil Scott.

 

Trimmed to one. As for attracting Phil Scott, lol. I'm not his type.

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Barb
Chaplain, ARSCC



"Comparing Scientology to a motorcycle gang is a gross, unpardonable
insult to bikers everywhere. Even at our worst, we are never as bad as
Scientology."
-ex-member, Thunderclouds motorcycle "club"

 

Screw COS *and* Phil Scott. No one is forcing you to read him.

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