Anyone heard of the Motor Vehicle Protection Association

prismatic · 15 February 2007 at 10:28PM

There is a garage in Tullibody offering cheap fuel (approx. 35p a litre). There if a membership fee of £100 and you get a max of 50 litres a week when available. It says it was founded to "fund the research and development of a project to eliminate the emissions from internal combuston engines and to extend the miles per gallon fuel consumption of all vehicles by the fitting of a retro-fit device". They are aparently planning on having depots throught the UK.

I was just wondering if anyone had heard anything about this because it sounds kinda interesting, assuming it works anyway.

Thanks if you can help

tomstickland · 15 February 2007 at 10:29PM

There's another thread somewhere on MSE. Google brings up nothing, so I'd tend to be suspicious.

prismatic · 15 February 2007 at 10:31PM

ok thanks, must have missed the other thread

achilles · 15 February 2007 at 11:11PM

the other thread can be found here
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=370774

most people seem to think it's a scam, but it does look like they have a filling station so you'll have to decide whether it's worth it!

blue_haddock · 15 February 2007 at 11:37PM

Sounds fishy to me!

moonrakerz · 16 February 2007 at 12:07PM

prismatic wrote:

There is a garage in Tullibody offering cheap fuel (approx. 35p a litre).

This has to be a scam of some sort, if not actually illegal.

If you are putting a "liquid" fuel in your car, such as Mazola or Extra Virgin Olive Oil, you have to pay the appropriate taxes on it, which come to more than 35p a litre anyway !

Apart from which, anything which asks for £100 up front - dodgy !

But I am perfectly honest, if you send me £500 (in used fivers), I will tell you how to run your car for nothing.

tomstickland · 17 February 2007 at 3:33PM

It still sounds very suspicious to me. Why the lack of google information?

A quick search on fuel prices:

86.5p for Unleaded 95

Unleaded 95 duty per litre = 47.1p
VAT per litre = 12.9p
Total tax per litre = 60.0p.
Operating and material costs plus profit of filling station and fuel company = 26.5p.

So the fuel "costs" around 26p per litre and tax takes that up to 86p.

changkra · 17 February 2007 at 4:54PM

gdallas wrote:

moonrakerz, try not to be so cynical. This is not a scam, far from it. And I AM A MEMBER! Summary of whats going on, YES its 35p a litre of diesel or petrol. Its actually only 25P but they add on 10p for everheads. Lights etc. I was speaking to the genius behind not 30 mins ago, ate the filing station full of fuel!!

[]

Good grief one of you must have terrible indigestion

:rotfl: :T

Jimmy_Neebur · 23 February 2007 at 9:48AM

If ma life in the Wee County has taught me anything, it is to get in quick and sign up. When the genieus who devised this scheme took over the garage it was already stocked up with 30,000 litres of fuel so what is being sold just now is perfectly legal as all taxes and duties have already been paid on it. I'm sure there willnay be a problem once they have to buy in lots of duty free fuel, and the current HMRC investigation will likely result in the scheme getting the official thumbs up allowing hunners of these places to open up accross the country. Gordon Broon will just need to find his taxes from elsewhere but i'm sure that'll no consern him ken LOL.

tomstickland · 23 February 2007 at 11:54AM

I'm spotting a pattern in the poor grammar and single figure post counts, all advocating this wonderful scheme.

Jimmy_Neebur · 23 February 2007 at 12:48PM

Our schools in the Wee County are famous ken for there exam records and I think that is reflected in here. I can see nothing wrong way the grammer. We're jist trying tay get across that this scheme isn't a fly-by-night, run by an alledged shady character, potentially liable to fall foul of HMRC, total scam to rip off folk in our sheltered community affair. It is legit according to my mate from Glen Ochil an that's good enough fur me as he knows hunners about this kind of stuff.

Anyone heard of the Motor Vehicle Protection Association

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