In addition, the company is offering the affected owners a free oil change.
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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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Having your oil changed at an express oil change business is cheaper than at the dealership, but say no to the extras.
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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Just as gasoline produces very little profit at a gas station, express oil change businesses make very little money on the oil change.
To do this, enter all the scheduled maintenance milestones from your car's owner's manual (making sure to include an oil change every 2, 000 miles).
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Simply, financial speculators are hoping that the price of barrel of oil will change.
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Postl is also looking at selling the company's Shreveport, Louisiana, refinery and some of the 1, 180 company-owned oil-change centers.
The university lacked money for clinical trials, so Clifford, who had made a fortune with a chain of Canadian oil-change stores, stepped in to help.
"They go twice the oil-change interval as well, " Clement says.
I'm a private money manager and freelance writer focused on Peak Oil and Climate Change as investment themes.
In recent years the movement has become increasingly popular as rising food prices, fears about food security, peak oil, climate change and a desire to reconnect with agriculture become more widespread.
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In Totnes, Transition have created local food guides, formed a sustainable building company, given talks and lectures to landowners and local government officials to show them how peak oil and climate change affect their management decisions.
The way we live our lives would dramatically change if oil-based energy becomes economically out of reach.
But now, Shell Oil Company hopes to change all that with a radical new twist: Bring the heat to the rock.
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Imagine one of these on every exhaust pipe, with a filter that you get changed every time you change your oil.
The movement was founded in Totnes, Devon, and Kinsale, Ireland, in 2005 and 2006, with the aim of helping those communities prepare for the twin challenges of peak oil output and climate change.
Earlier at the Rome summit, U.N. chief Ban Ki-Moon called for a drastic increase in food production to meet the demands of a rising population and stave off a crisis brought about by oil prices, climate change and the impact of the biofuel market.
He has been trying since 2007 to change foreign oil contracts from production-sharing agreements, under which the foreign producers can have partial ownership of the fields they operate, to servicing contracts, under which the producers would have to pay a production fee and then get reimbursed for the cost of their investment.
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Those two brands account for 37% of the U.S. retail market and 60% of the oil used in quick-change centers.
"We make a major step toward reducing our dependence on oil, confronting global climate change, expanding production of renewable fuels and giving future generations a nation that is stronger, cleaner and more secure, " Bush said.
The problems of climate change, peak oil, food security and the demand for economic and political justice require us to deploy all our resources together in order to create a resilient world in which our grandchildren can thrive.
When life-cycle costs are compared, natural gas is currently a more economical decision than flex-fuel powered vehicles, although both are more expensive than gasoline at current figures (keep in mind that these dynamics could change due to oil shocks or increased demand for traditional fuels both real risks).
The resentment is currently focused on foreign oil companies, but that could change.
An engine change and a subsequent oil leak hampered his practice on Saturday and stopped him going out in qualifying.
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Leave aside for a moment exactly why oil consumption should fall: climate change, the costs of imports, relaince upon dictatorial states for supply and so on.
While other investigations have been higher-profile, the recommendations in this report could change how the offshore oil industry operates in the Gulf of Mexico, a prolific oil and natural-gas region.
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