Tag Archives: Oil

New Car Tip: Keep the Oil

September 15, 2010   Alexander Stewart   No comments

Anyone who grew up with a mechanically-minded father – or mother – is likely to remember the 3,000-mile oil change. As regular as clockwork, when the next 3,000 miles rolled around, it was time to throw the car up on blocks, haul out some stained jeans and a wrench, and spend an afternoon cleaning out the car’s engine.That conventional wisdom, though, seems to have expired – with new cars and new oil, reports the New York Times, it’s better to keep the oil in the car for an average of 7,500 to 10,000 miles.The difference, say sources like Edmunds.com and the California Integrated Waste Management Board, is that modern engines and oil chemistry simply last longer on a single helping of oil.

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Ask AP: IMF money, vacuuming up spilled oil

June 02, 2010   admin   No comments

What ever happened to that vacuum system — promoted by Kevin Costner — that might be able to collect oil from the Gulf of Mexico?

Curiosity about how the testing of the system is going inspired one of the questions in this edition of “Ask AP,” a weekly Q&A column where AP journalists respond to readers’ questions about the news.

If you have your own news-related question that you’d like to see answered by an AP reporter or editor, send it to newsquestions@ap.org, with “Ask AP” in the subject line. And please include your full name and hometown so they can be published with your question.

You can also tweet your questions to AP, using the AskAP hashtag.

Ask AP can also be found on AP Mobile, a multimedia news service available on Internet-enabled cell phones. Go

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