Synthetic oil..

[Staga]

I decided long time ago that when I'm changing the oils I use best oil I can find. The cost is not that much when you know that if something happens it's not because of crappy oil or because I wanted to save twenty bucks.
Same goes with gasoline, local technical magazine has been testing the quality of fuel distributed by different oil companies and there used to be big differencies between brands: some engines got crust in their intake valves and piston tops while with some brands the engines were staying more clean.

[GRUNHERZ]

Originally posted by ravells
Wind farms? Geothermal energy? Electricity is pretty efficient in converting energy into an energy 'lingua franca'.

Batteries can be recharged/recycled, can't they?

What is a hybrid car? sounds intersting. Saw something in 'Scientific American' about an engine that could run on water...is that it?

Ravs

Windfarms were a great idea till environmetalists decided that they killed too many birds...

Geothermal is nice and needs to looked into, but i suspect there would similar complaints to oil drilling etc...

Solar power is neat except that if we put panels or energy directing mirrors all over the place they would relect solar heat back into the atmospher and cause huge problems.

Sure batteries can be recharged but even those wear out, so with hundreds of millions of cars that will become a problem. they can be recycled, but that doesnt mean people will comply or that enough capacity will exist to recycle them.

Hybrid cars are those with a small gasoline engine augmented with an electric motor and some limited battery capacity. TYhe electric motor and gas engine are seamlessly integrated with each shutting off and firing up as needed. It improves fuel economy and is much easier to implement than all electric cars at thsi time, yet it is too expensive for mass production now. The few that are made and marketed incurr huge losses for automakers like toyota and honda, but ghose are made up by govt subsidies.

[LAWCobra]

Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
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Hybrid cars are those with a small gasoline engine augmented with an electric motor and some limited battery capacity. TYhe electric motor and gas engine are seamlessly integrated with each shutting off and firing up as needed. It improves fuel economy and is much easier to implement than all electric cars at thsi time, yet it is too expensive for mass production now. The few that are made and marketed incurr huge losses for automakers like toyota and honda, but ghose are made up by govt subsidies. [/B]

Yeah Im all for the Hybrids.
I dont know why we (the USA) Is not pouring cash into the further development of these Hello GM FORD!!

[ravells]

Well, I havn't seen the complaint about windfarms killing birds yet.

Point is....that oil (in our lifetimes) is irreplaceable and has more uses than just fuel for cars. It's a waste to use it for that if we have other options.

Hybrids sound like a good idea...for us to get away from oil and into electricity.

Ravs

[bigsky]

the difference is that synthetic oil doesnt smoke when it burns. so the used car salesmen use it to cover up a bad motor.

[Stoned Gecko]

I don't think there's any difference in performance between dino and synth oils, however synth oil can filter better and last longer. You can get the Amsoil system and not change your oil for 20,000 - 40,000 miles ... just gotta change the filter every 6 months. I haven't seen any dino oil that can do that.

[LAWCobra]

Well some friends of mine took home movies of them picking up a hooker and taking her to a motel where that all proceeded to well you know.

Well anyways in the process they poured motor oil all over her I think it was penzoil. They said for those activities they prefered petrolium based oils.

[Steve]

Never poured synthetic oil over a hooker so I can't say how good it is for that but I do use Mobil1 in my 'vette.  I change it every 3k miles although I honestly don't drive it a heck of a lot. The engine itself is only a couple of years old, but the old mill had 98000 miles on it w/ mobil1  and was still runnin great when I yanked it.

[LAWCobra]

Yup when I usewd to sell chevys In 95 It clearly said under the hood use Mobil1 .
And In you Manuel It said the same.

Vetts like synthetics.

[storch]

in 1985 I bought a brand new Ford Ranger P/U 2.8L V6.  From the first oil change I used synthetics.  After 670,000 odd miles and 15 yrs later the truck rusted away. never burned oil never lost much compression never replaced any gaskets changed the oil every 6000 miles.  Been running synthetics ever since.

[Airhead]

I use Anal Lube on all my moving parts. Not only does it decrease temperature but it also reduces friction, and that's important if you have a date with "The Stranger."

[NUKE]

Originally posted by Airhead
I use Anal Lube on all my moving parts. Not only does it decrease temperature but it also reduces friction, and that's important if you have a date with "The Stranger."

I wondered how you kept your mouth so cool.

[vorticon]

ravells...

the cars that run on "water" are fuel cell cars...they use hydrogen unfortunatly we dont exactly have a ready supply of hydrogen...once we get efficiency on them up they should be usable though...

anyway we have over 100 years of oil left (more if we can figure out how to get at deeper oil in the alberta tar sands)...not to much but it should be enough to get other methods up and running...

[mietla]

Originally posted by Airhead
I use Anal Lube on all my moving parts. Not only does it decrease temperature but it also reduces friction, and that's important if you have a date with "The Stranger."

does it taste good?

[SunKing]