Lucas Oil also sponsors some car races, including the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series, and has a track in Missouri.
Software, consultancy and mobile telephones use far less oil than steel or car production.
An oil company and a car dealership are two of the most desirable places to work in America?
NPR's business news starts with oil prices up and car sales down.
Mr Bush is unlikely ever to be a born-again green or so we must hope but there is no reason to dismiss his ideas for a shift to clean hydrogen just because car and oil companies may benefit.
Now, in the face of high oil prices and a softening car market, Goodyear is setting sales records.
The timing and technology finally appear right for car unshackled from oil dependence.
Similar lawsuits have been filed around the country against car manufacturers, oil companies and other industries that emit CO2.
Right now, for instance, some carmakers use remote diagnostics to alert you via email when your car needs an oil change.
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Car makers, oil firms, airlines, bricks-and-mortar retailers and most other old-economy sectors have regularly resorted to price wars when demand in their markets have turned down.
America's headline rate of consumer-price inflation rose to 2.0% in October, largely as a result of dearer oil and a jump in car prices, which had been heavily discounted the previous month.
It should ultimately be capable of making ultralight cars at automotive scale and cost, halving steel cars' weight and fuel use, improving safety, costing no more per car and saving oil equivalent to finding a Saudi Arabia under Detroit.
If you look at across the whole life cycle of growing corn, making ethanol and burning it in a car, and compare that to what happens when you find oil and make gasoline and burn it in a car, you only have about 15 percent less greenhouse gas going into the air from burning ethanol than you would if you're burning gasoline.
Indeed, the economics of veggie oil are even better for a car than they are for a truck.
Since volume in the service department is low on Wednesdays, it'll offer a half-price oil change if you bring the car in then.
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Conventional hybrids such as Toyota's Prius have moved from a cult niche to a mainstream product, with a cumulative million units sold--the demand for this car has closely tracked oil prices.
In addition to gas and depreciation, actual car expenses include insurance, oil, repairs, tires, registration fees and taxes, parking fees and tolls.
Some ideas are simple (a rusty colander becoming a hanging garden planter), while others are downright feats (how to convert an old diesel car to run on vegetable oil).
And beyond the car companies stand a host of oil, tobacco, banking and consumer-goods firms that plaster their decals on cars and on trackside posters.
And the fact of the matter is, is that if they even approach the amount of car ownership that we have, oil will run out very quickly and on the way, prices will just spike up naturally, no matter what we do.
So if big data is the new oil, then the mobile device is the new car.
It is looking for inspiration anywhere, from Car magazine to the way that the oil industry polices itself, in its search for ways of promoting greater interest in transparency.
Entries included a Chevrolet Volt, Nissan Leaf, Honda CR-Z, Honda Civic GX, Toyota Prius, Volkswagen Jetta TDI, a Volkswagen Golf TDI that runs on French Fry oil, and the Judy Sunhawk, a solar car capable of going 90 miles an hour.
And that is the approach the President has taken, which is why he has taken measures to increase domestic oil production, why he has passed the significant car rule, which will ensure that more fuel-efficient cars are rolling off the assembly line and populating the highways and streets of our country.
Instead of buying a new gas-guzzling vehicle, convert an old diesel car to run on either biodiesel or vegetable oil.
For a car, of course you need raw crude oil, and then refineries to make gasoline and transportation networks to deliver it.
It is very difficult to read the oil crystal ball, but the sort of growth in car sales we are seeing is certainly the sort of things that can boost prices for the future.
If the individual had bought a security that increased in price when oil prices went up, their costs to fill their car and heat their homes would have gone up, but they also would have made money on their investment.
For the foreseeable future, every flex-fuel car sold will increase America's dependence on oil.
Get a smaller car, move closer to your job and buy oil stocks.
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