[D179]Dependency On Foreign Oil

If you watch or listen to the news, conversations happen frequently about the cost of a barrel of oil and the price tag of fossil fuel at the fuel pump. The sale of large Suv's have gone way down and manufacturers have been giving sizable rebates to manufacturers just to dump them. With costs of gasoline skyrocketing, folks are looking for other ways to save on fossil fuel such as purchasing little or mid-size Sport utility vehicles, smaller cars or Hybrids. When paying attention to the news, you may also find out about alternative fuels such as E85, Hydrogen or anything else to decrease our foreign oil dependency.

Crude oil is extracted from the earth and sent to refineries to manufacture our fossil fuel. The sludge that is remanent at the refinery is then used to generate oil to lubricate the internals of the motors in our vehicles. Did you know that conventional oil from the earth is full of impurities, paraffin's and waxes? Conventional oil coming from the ground has millions of various kinds of molecules. Lots of these molecules are similar in weight but not in structure. Refining the lubricant does not clear out all of the critical impurities. The lubrication and performance qualities of refined petroleum are low quantity. The refining approach cannot tell the difference between such molecules, so a wide assortment of molecules is at hand in the finished lubricant created from crude oil. Many of the molecules from the crude oil contain paraffin (a wax-like substance destructive to your motor), which cause the lubrication to solidify and flow very inadequately in frigid temperatures. There is also sulfur, nitrogen and other dirty elements in refined crude oil that cause the build up of sludge and varnish inside of an motor. The sludge and break down of molecules are what significantly cause wear and break down of the oil in your motor.

That similar crude oil is also used to create tar for the roads. Is that anything you want lubricating your motor? The vehicle manufacturers and dealerships seem to think so. That cheap petrolium oil guarantees revenue all across the board. How is this possible? Manufacturers fancy the low quality oil because it's just well enough to have an automobile to have beyond the warranty period before major wear starts to be detectable, such as your valve guides wearing out. That's when you see that puff of smoke when you first start your vehicle in the morning once you have put high mileage on it. Since conventional oil is loaded with all of these impurities and non-uniform molecules, it breaks down swiftly and generates sludge and varnish; thus you ought to change it at around 3,000 miles. This is a perfect underlying reason to manufacture foot traffic at the dealership and the mechanic shop. The persevere thing the dealerships or garages that change oil wish to have is a extended lasting oil or an oil that will extend the age of an motor or transmission. Marc Graham, the president of Jiffy Lube, said in an article that if they could have their customers to curtail their drain time by only 100 miles (changing the oil at 2,900 instead of 3,000 miles), that it would mean an extra $20 million dollars in receivables for the corporation each year. If they could get all of their customers to get one additional oil change per year, the corporation could make an additional $294 million. I hope you can glimpse their reason for the brisk intervals. It's in their best interest, not yours.

Here's your chance to participate in the movement to diminish the necessity for dependency on foreign oil.

Not only can you reduce to the need on the importing of oil, you can also save at the pump while doing it. In addition, you can also drastically drivetrain the life of your drivetrain, and that folks, is certainly not on the agenda of the car and truck builders. The concealed agenda of the auto manufacturers is to have your drive train wear out after the warranty period so you can keep coming back to get extra vehicles. It is not in their agenda for any vehicle manufacturer or mechanic to tell you how to prolong the engine age of your can or truck. If they told you how to get your engine to persevere longer, they would obliterate their profit margin.

So how you can decrease the foreign oil dependency?

That's simple. Stop buying run-of-the-mill petroleum oil to lubricate your motor, transmission and axles. The next time you are due for an oil change, only get synthetic oil. And don't acquire the "blends" as they have all of those nasty impurities that I just mentioned above by mixing synthetic with prevalent. Just acquire 100% synthetic. You don't wish to have any additional impurities in your engine.

But synthetic oils are high-priced! That's the reason I have been purchasing conventional oil to begin with.

That is the biggest myth. If you use 100% synthetics in your entire engine and transmission, synthetic oil can end up costing you nothing. How can that be, you ask?

First let me make clear the advantages and then I will do the math. Fully synthetic oils are chemically engineered from perfect chemicals rather than from crude oil. Fully synthetic oils do not have that awful sulfur, nitrogen and other elements that can cause sludge and varnish in your engine that traditional oils do. Fully synthetic oils also have a much greater flash point and can handle much greater temperatures than conventional oil without breaking down. Since their resistance to break down is drastically reduced, they can be used for a much more timeframe than conventional oils. Fully synthetic oils stay much cleaner and persevere most notibly longer than regular oils. Distinguided from conventional oils, fully synthetic oils have uniform molecules which ensure low friction as the lubricant layers slide across each other (which is what you wish to have in your hot running mechanical motor.)

If they can land a space craft on the moon, can't they make an oil last longer than 3,000 miles?
You bet they can and they do just that.

So what are the financial advantages of spending a little additional money on a quart of oil?

For one, 100% fully synthetic oils can last up to 11 times longer than petrolium oil depending on the vehicle, application and fuel type. A small company called Amsoil is the only corporation that has such long-lived motor oils. The Amsoil corporation is the very first company in the United states to create synthetic motor oil for commuter cars, years before Mobil 1, Havoline, Valvoline, Castrol or any of the other big-named companies. Amsoil owns the trademark for the expression "First in Synthetics" because of this. The thing is that the majority people don't know is that Amsoil is the only corporation that commissions motor oil last up to an noteworthy 1-year or 35,000 miles and has been doing this since 1972. This oil is guaranteed in writing.

If fully synthetic oils can last up to 11x more and can underlyingly eliminate wear in your drive train, then what are the benefits of using conventional oil?

Well, not a whole heck of a lot. Their introductory low price tag gets people to acquire them. Using it for engine break-in to assist in seating valves and other parts during the first several hundred miles. Other than that, it's unmistakably costing you a lot of cash to keep using petrolium oil. Look what happens to a transmission once you put high mileage on it while using familiar transmission fluid. You can end up spending $1,500, $2,000 or much more on rebuilding a transmission on a commuter car. If you would have had used a fully synthetic transmission fluid which resists heat and break down of molecules, you could possibly eighty-six that need for a transmission rebuild. For every 20 degrees above 175 degrees, your transmission life is Cut in half! When facing up to $2,000 on a repair bill, do you really wish to have to risk that chance by sticking with old school crude oil?

Other savings of switching to synthetics are the gas mileage increase that most the public notices. I will give you an example in my own personal can or truck. I was initially getting 22 MPG on the highway with my vehicle with widespread oils. I switched over my engine, transmission and rear differential over to Amsoil's synthetics. Afterwards, I realized a gain of 4 MPG Because of the reduced friction of the synthetics. I paid approximately $250 (including labor costs) to have all of my fluids changed over. That change over lasts up to 1 year on the oil and several years for the other fluids. At the time of my tests, fossil fuel was $3.19/gallon for premium that I was using. That comparable $250 is close to what I would pay for a year's worth of oil changes at a quick lube for petrolium oil, but with conventional oil, I'd still be getting 22 MPG, not the 4 MPG increase from synthetics.

When driving 2,000 miles every month at 22 MPG, that comes out to 90 gallons of fuel every month.
With the boost in fuel economy to 26 MPG, the equivalent 2,000 miles every month now only uses 76 gallons of fossil fuel. That's $44 every month that I saved right there. $44 x 12 months = $535 per year in fuel savings.

That's not too shabby of an investment. Not only am I saving cash on the fuel (in fact being frugal with more at the pump than I spent for all of the oil, which basically creates the oil free when you do the math), I am also saving on time because the oil changes last up to 1 year or 35,000 miles before I have to get them drained. Not to divulge the fact that I am cheating the manufacturers arranged obsolescence of my vehicle. By using the 100% fully synthetics, my drive train will now persevere much more than what the manufacturer designed it to last for.

And to think that's just for me. Just think if I owned a corporation with a fleet of vehicles. How much money would I conserve then? Our governments could conserve millions of dollars if they sat down and ran the numbers in spreadsheets to calculate savings over time. That's millions of dollars of our hard earned tax dollars being saved. Think of all of the police automobiles and utility cars and trucks that the governments currently use that could keep going for an additional few years before getting rid of them as fargoing as their motors ran like new (which they typically do when using synthetic oils in the drive trains.) Those prolonged-term benefits and savings are not thought about when using petrolium oil.

Let's look at how much oil is saved on an annual basis. If I had driven 1 year on 6 quarts of fully synthetic oil for 24,000 miles, if I would have done it the old way, I would have had to get 8 oil changes and use up 48 quarts of oil to travel the comparable area. That's 48 quarts of oil imported from another country. By using the fully synthetic oil, I have saved the country 48 quarts of oil that I did not have to use for the year.

But how many folks drive 24,000 miles in a year? LOTS! With the crazy prices of homes, people have been moving more distant out to the suburbs. Over 50% of the folks are driving additional than 1 hour to have to work just to live in affordable housing. If the public stopped using conventional oil for their cars, the demand would go down and the expenditure of fossil fuel would most likely plummet. If costs of gasoline went down like mad, then the sales of huge Suv's such as Hummers, Chevy Tahoe's and Ford Expeditions would probably drastically boost.