(1) this was not original material with attribution;
This is not original, i use it as informative material.
(2) this was basically an ad (are you connected to Exxon/Mobil in some way);
I am not connected with exxon/mobil in ANY way, actually i use amsoil motor oils, they have 25,000 miles warranty since 1972.
and (3) it has ZERO DR content.
This is a environment forum:
Each year, U.S. citizens dump more than 24,000,000 gallons of oil down sewers or into landfills. If you use petroleum oil and drain your oil every 3,000 miles, you will use about 40 quarts of oil (over 25,000 miles).
The environmental issue is often framed in the language of behavior. Are we a selfish civilization whose quest for instant gratification trashes the natural world and leaves a mess for our children? It's an argument intended to provoke guilt. And we resist guilt.
But consider this account by the New York Times, using as its source the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the American Petroleum Institute (API): "Each year, 1.2 billion gallons of lubricating oil are used in vehicles; 600 million gallons are burned up in engines, and 600 million gallons are removed at oil change time. Drivers who change their own oil account for 350 million of the removed gallons, and they improperly discard 240 million gallons of used oil."
Dumping 240 million gallons of oil is nearly the same as two Exxon Valdez spills each month. Improperly dumped waste oil seeps through landfills into ground water, disrupts bacterial digestion in sewer treatment plants (causing even more pollution), and washes into lakes and harbors. And we have no confident estimate of what happens to properly discarded waste oil. In 1989, there were only four re-finers left in the U.S. They processed a total of only 50 million gallons of the 600 million gallons theoretically possible.
Are we drowning in waste oil? Drowning is, of course, overly dramatic. But, do we have a serious problem? Are we trashing the world we leave to our children? And, most important, shouldn't we be doing something about it right now? Certainly.
EXTENDED OIL CHANGES HELP ENVIRONMENT.....
SORRY ANYWAY....