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Originally Posted by Cervan
his punch line was "never change your oil and save the earth maybie your childrens limbs or life" now how does oil happen to take ones limbs or life?
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I thought the reference was to the (US) kids over in oil-rich places (like Iraq right now), helping our governement secure the lifeblood of our economy, oil.
Break the dependence on oil, save the need for securing those interests, keep the kids from being killed and maimed. Not changing your motor oil is about the most counterproductive way to do that though since it only works if you don't replace the car when it dies.
However, that said, there was a recent article where Ford was considering extending their oil change interval to somthing like 12,000 miles for new vehicles designs using new oil formulations. And industry people were quoted as saying the intervals could be extended far further than that given the way most people drive and that sensors were available to tell people when the oil actually needed to be changed well in advance of when any damage would result.