Amsoil is helping the Environment

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." ¹

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 refiners left in the U.S. They processed a total of only 50 million gallons of the 600 million gallons theoretically possible.²

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. And the first thing we can do is not create so much waste oil to begin with

¹ The New York Times, Oct. 28, 1989
² Hazmat Worlds, Nov. 1989

Numbers and Solutions

For over a quarter century, AMSOIL Incorporated has manufactured and distributed synthetic lubricants. It was the first synthetic motor oil qualified by the American Petroleum Institute, the first to recommend 25,000-mile/1-year drain intervals (in 1972), and, today, the first and only to have a system for lifetime drain intervals (backed by oil analysis). Research, laboratory analysis, and millions of engine miles have produced a distinguished body of facts; decades of staying on top of the latest developments in the oil industry have paid off in maximizing efficiency, and minimizing waste and engine wear.

Most automotive experts recommend drain intervals of 3,000 to 6,000 miles for petroleum motor oils. This is about 4 to 8 times shorter than AMSOIL drain intervals. Assuming you use petroleum oil, travel 25,000 miles annually, and have a 5-quart oil system, you will dump 15 to 35 quarts of used oil. That's a lot of oil. It's easy to see how the 25,000-mile/1-year drain intervals of AMSOIL can reduce your personal contribution to oil pollution. In 1985, AMSOIL introduced the TRIGARD System. This package of advanced automotive products represents the world's first and only 100,000-mile-plus oil change interval. That means no more wasted oil.

If your car goes 100,000 miles on petroleum oil, and you follow the recommended drain intervals, you will generate between 85 and 165 quarts of waste oil. That's like draining about 2 bathtubs full of dirty oil. In fact, multiply that by the 135 million registered cars (excluding trucks, buses and taxis) in the US, and you arrive at a figure between 11.4 billion and 22.3 billion quarts of waste oil over a service life of approximately 100,000 miles.

That equates to a line of semi-trucks stretching from Los Angeles, CA to Washington D.C. and back again all completely filled with 55 gallon drums of dirty oil. With the AMSOIL TRIGARD System, each registered vehicle would generate little more than a milk-jug full of used oil over 100,000-plus miles of use. That's an environmental alternative that saves you money! How can you lose?

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