35D oil problem

[Lubehead]

grover432, I don't understand how the occasional addition of makeup oil to an engine is more damaging to the environment then an oil change.

Here in Massachusetts and other states in New England there are hundreds of thousands of waste oil heaters spewing unburnt hydrocarbons into the environment. These heaters are not very efficient and certainly do not have any sophisticated emmission controls.

Large trucking companies, refuse haulers, construction companies and a host of other fleet maintenance facilities actually resist longer drain intervals even though they have been proven to not only be safe and do not compromise engine life, so they can have used engine oil to heat their garages.

The math cannot work. Use a higher quality engine oil with a proactive condition monitoring program and add an occasional quart or even gallon of makeup oil and the overall consumption/environmental impact will trump the commonly practiced drain intervals used by those who are not open to such concepts as conservation, increased operational efficiencies and decreased consumption of limited resources.

I dont know the statistics offhand but I'm fairly confident that the quantity of oil that is actually recycled and put to good commercial use is miniscule when compared to the quantity of lubricating oil actually consumed in any given year. Recycling of engine oil is even more limited.