If you watch or listen to the news, discussions happen many times about the price of a barrel of oil and the price tag of fossil fuel at the gas pump. The sale of big Sport utility vehicles have gone way down and manufacturers have been giving large rebates to manufacturers just to lose them. With costs of gasoline leaping, folks are seeking other methods to save on fossil fuel such as buying little or mid-size Suv’s, smaller cars or Hybrids. When listening to the news, you may also hear about alternative fuels such as E85, Hydrogen or anything else to reduce our dependency on foreign oil.

Crude oil is pulled from the ground and sent to refineries to generate our fossil fuel. The sludge that is leftover at the refinery is then used to create oil to lubricate the internals of the engines in our cars and trucks. Did you know that conventional oil from the earth is full of impurities, paraffin’s and waxes? Petrolium oil coming from the earth has millions of various kinds of molecules. Lots of these molecules are similar in weight but not in structure. Refining the oil does not deduct all of the complex impurities. The lubrication and performance qualities of refined petroleum are limited. The refining approach cannot tell the difference between such molecules, so a wide assortment of molecules is at hand in the finished lubricant made from crude oil. Lots of the molecules from the crude oil have paraffin (a wax-like substance harmful to your engine), which cause the lubrication to condense and flow very poorly in cold temperatures. There is also sulfur, nitrogen and other bad 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 engine.

That equivalent crude oil is also used to make tar for the roads. Is that something you wish to have oiling your engine? The vehicle manufacturers and dealers seem to think so. That inexpensive conventional oil guarantees profits all over the place. How can this happen? Manufacturers fancy the poor quality oil because it’s just good enough to get a car to have beyond the warranty period before major wear starts to be unmistakable, 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 accumulate high mileage on it. Since petrolium oil is filled with all of these impurities and non-uniform molecules, it breaks down hastily and creates sludge and varnish; therefore you need to change it at around 3,000 miles. This is a great underlying reason to manufacture foot traffic at the dealership and the oil change garages. The last thing the dealerships or oil change garages want is a lengthy long-term oil or an oil that will prolong the life of an motor or transmission. Marc Graham, the president of Jiffy Lube, said in an article that if they could get 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 profit for the company each year. If they could get their customers to have one extra oil change per year, the company could generate an additional $294 million. I hope you can now understand their reason for the meager intervals. It’s in their agenda, not yours.

Here’s your chance to participate in the movement to cut back the need for foreign oil dependency.

Not only can you decrease to dependency on the importing of oil, you can also save at the pump while doing it. On top of that, you can also drastically drivetrain the age of your engine and transmission, and that people, is definitely not on the schedule of the car and truck builders. The covert census of the auto manufacturers is to have your engine and transmission wear out after the warranty period so you can keep coming back to acquire extra vehicles. It is not in their agenda for any can or truck manufacturer or repairman to tell you how to extend the motor age of your can or truck. If they told you how to get your engine to last longer, they would obliterate their profit margin.

So how you can decrease the foreign oil dependency?

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

But synthetic oils are of great cost! That's the reason I have been buying petrolium oil in the first place.

That is the biggest myth. If you use 100% synthetics in your entire drive train, synthetic oil can end up costing you nothing. How is that possible, you ask?

First let me talk about the benefits and then I will do the math. Fully synthetic oils are chemically engineered from pure chemicals instead of from crude oil. Fully synthetic oils don't have that nasty sulfur, nitrogen and other elements that can cause sludge and varnish in your motor that prevalent oils do. Fully synthetic oils also have a much greater flash point and can command much higher temperatures than petrolium oil without breaking down. Since their resistance to break down is dramatically reduced, they can be used for a lot longer time it takes than customary oils. Fully synthetic oils stay much cleaner and last significantly longer than traditional oils. Unlike 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 engine.)

If they can land a space craft on the moon, can’t they create an oil exceed 3,000 miles?
They sure can and they do just that.

So what are the financial benefits of spending a little additional cash on a quart of oil?

For one, 100% fully synthetic oils can last up to 11 times more than petrolium oil depending on the vehicle, application and fuel type. A little company called Amsoil is the only corporation that has such long-term motor oils. The Amsoil corporation is the very first company in the United states to create synthetic motor oil for passenger automobiles, 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 most people don’t know is that Amsoil is the only corporation that delivers motor oil persevere up to an phenomenal 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 longer and can virtually do away with wear in your drive train, then what are the advantages of using petrolium oil?

Well, not too much. Their introductory low price gets folks to purchase them. Using it for motor break-in to assist in seating valves and other parts during the first several hundred miles. Other than that, it’s in truth costing you a lot of money to keep using conventional oil. Look what happens to a transmission once you put high mileage on it while using conventional transmission fluid. You can end up spending $1,500, $2,000 or even more on remanufacturing a transmission on a passenger car. If you would have had used a fully synthetic transmission fluid which resists heat and break down of molecules, you could potentially expel 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 want to risk that chance by sticking with old school crude oil?

Other savings of changing to synthetics are the gas mileage increase that most all the people notices. I will offer you an example in my own personal vehicle. I was first getting 22 MPG on the expressway with my car with traditional 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 spent around $250 (including labor costs) to have all of my fluids changed over. That change over perseveres up to 1 year on the oil and several years for the other fluids. At the time of my tests, gas was $3.19/gallon for premium that I was using. That similar $250 is close to what I would pay for a year’s worth of oil changes at a quick lube for conventional oil, but with petrolium 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 per month.
With the increase in fuel economy to 26 MPG, the equivalent 2,000 miles every month now only uses 76 gallons of gas. That’s $44 every month that I saved right there. $44 x 12 months = $535 per year in gas savings.

That’s not too bad of an investment. Not only am I saving cash on the gas (in fact conserving extra at the pump than I spent for all of the oil, which basically delivers the oil free when you do the math), I am also conserving on time because the oil changes last up to 1 year or 35,000 miles before I have to have them drained. Not to hint at the fact that I am cheating the manufacturers figured obsolescence of my can or truck. By using the 100% fully synthetics, my drive train will now persevere much longer than what the manufacturer designed it to persevere for.

And to think that’s just for me. Consider if I owned a company with a fleet of vehicles. How much money would I save then? Our gov'ts could conserve millions of dollars if they sat down and ran the numbers in spreadsheets to compute 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 gov'ts currently use that could keep going for an additional few years before getting rid of them as extensive as their power plants ran like new (which they typically do when using synthetic oils in the drive trains.) Those extended-term benefits and savings are not thought about when using conventional oil.

Let’s look at how much oil is saved on an annual basis. If I drove 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 equivalent measure. 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 people drive 24,000 miles in a year? LOTS! With the crazy prices of homes, folks have been moving more distant out to the suburbs. Over 50% of the people 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 automobiles, the demand would go down and the cost of fossil fuel would the majority likely plummet. If costs of fuel went down like crazy, then the sales of big Sport utility vehicles such as Hummers, Chevy Tahoe’s and Ford Expeditions would probably drastically increase.

Robert Riley is a programmer/analyst who comes from a family of auto mechanics who have owned a fleet of car service stations and garages that change oil such as Enco, Texaco and Amoco since the early 1960’s. The Riley family has as a history in working in automobile repair shops as far back as the early 1900’s. Robert Riley is an independent dealer for Synthetic Oil where you can get a really great education on engine oil.

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