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[–] • 9 pts

Ohh,I usually just soak it up with the local stray cats. They run far enough away that nobody would think it was me. I'll have to try that.

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You should start setting them on fire, so they don't drip.

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You should stop thinking like a stupid nigger.

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Cats are niggers, and I fucking hate them.

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I suppose back in 1963 when Popular Mechanics recommended this and engine oil was mostly just oil this wasn't that bad of advice. Petroleum is "organic" after all (as in, it contains carbon).

Small enough amounts wouldn't have had that big of impact on the environment and bacteria in the soil would have eventually broken down the oil before it got into the ground water. Though there would have been some residual lead from the tetraethyl lead that was in the fuel as well as some metal filings from the engine.

Also I think missing from this description is that you should use a different spot at each oil change. Nowadays motor oil is filled with all kinds of synthetic additives that aren't readily broken down by natural processes so this shouldn't be done.

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I beg to differ, the new class of GF6 oils use ionic liquids as additives which are more environmentally friendly. Tribodyn for example makes a fantastic oil which uses both ionic liquids and nanoparticles that are bio-degradable.

I generally agree though, don't be an asshole, dispose of your oil properly, help Valvoline make more oil to sell back to you by dumping your oil at your local auto parts store.

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Well, you are kinda paying the oil company to clean the oil for re use with that logic.. but I am not sure how overpriced it is compared to if doing it yourself.

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Well they spent about $130 million for their processing facility, so if you can do it cheaper, they'll pay you handsomely.

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Soil microbes actually do break the oil down over time if the dose is small enough. People poured waste oil along fence lines instead of running string trimmers. Some traces of lead and other metals from engine bearings will persist. Now of course places gladly accept it for free and will sell it when they accumulate a large enough quantity.

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Valvoline doesn't even dig for oil, they just recycle used oil, and truth be told their oil is fucking fantastic at non-extreme operating temperatures. IE at less than 270 degrees f. Chances are if your oil temps are that high, you have bigger issues, and should remove the leaves from in front of your Porsche's radiators.

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Real Porsches didn't have radiators! Oil stayed below 270 in part because of the 13 quart tank for the dry sump system. (Technical people might claim the oil cooler is a radiator but I fart in their general direction.)

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993 turbo for life, a real man's car, that thing will crush the turds in your intestines with the amount of butthole puckering.

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Modern oil is full of synthetic chemicals that microbes have no evolutionary experience with. These chemicals can be antibiotic, toxic, and highly resistant to oxidation. Not to mention metals picked up by the oil.

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I did mention metals accumulation :) Most of the detergents are metal salts as well as the metal that wears off of bearings.

I'm much greener now and give it to a place that burns it, sending the various metals into the air.

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I’ve seen auto repair shops that heat their building with used motor oil. Pretty convenient for them.

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This is why city groundwater is so bad these days.

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Lol yea oil from 60 years ago surely not the constant runoff from asphalt, sidewalks, buildings, vehicles, etc. every time it rains coupled with the deforestation that grossly inhibits any hope of bioremediation of pollutants. Yea it's definitely not that and totally the oil that grandpa buried.

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Or... all of the above? Just because it happens today doesn't mean past events don't have effect anymore.

Why is everything so mutually elusive with fucktards like you?

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Yes it's the cigarette you smoked in high school giving you lung cancer and not the constant daily exposure to asbestos.

Sure, the cigarette didn't help, but in the broader context it doesn't mean dick.

The only thing that's elusive here is evidence of your critical thinking, and that condition isn't mutual.

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Many times I've asked how doing that is "hurting the Earth?"

It came out of the ground, I'm giving it back to Mother Nature. That's helping, right?

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

Despite the delusions of certain misanthropes in environmentalist clothing, it wouldn't really be harmful to dump it if you put crude oil into your car. You would mostly only be adding aluminum, trace copper, and iron most of which aren't harmful. Unfortunately you're more likely to be putting into your car a refined oil with additives to help it not sludge up, to carry metal particles to the oil filter, to stay cool, and so forth.

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Was a joke. I don't actually do that, not to mention, my car uses full synthetic. No clue what that shit's made of.

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my car uses full synthetic. No clue what that shit's made of.

Hydrocarbons, stabilizers, detergents. There's just more control over which long-chain hydrocarbons make it in, and ideally it's the ones least-prone to oxidation. Stabilizers and detergents take the form of magnesium, boron, and calcium salts (usually with some charged hydrocarbon chain). Zinc organic phosphates as anti-wear additive... organic silicon compounds for anti-foam... lubricating metals like molybdenum are present in trace amounts... essentially that's probably the worst thing you'd be dumping since it's a heavy metal. The rest of the stuff (when I say "organic" I'm talking "carbon chemistry" not "pesticide-free" or whatever) is either readily broken down (lots of stuff eats basic hydrocarbons) or is present in trace amounts in the soil already.

Honestly synthetic means they can just get the cream of the hydrocarbon crop; all of those additives are likely in your "dino" oil, but they're less effective since dino oil has conjugated carbons and alkenes that are more prone to heat degradation and oxidation (among other things). Easier to just make oil without those things than to try to filter them out of crude. In that regard you have likely fewer other contaminants; pretty hard to control the heavy metal content of what comes out of the ground - much easier if you just make it yourself.

Idk I'd wager synthetic is actually more environmentally friendly. I might lose, but it's a bet I'd be willing to take. End-product wise anyway; not talking like cradle-to-grave byproducts and all that.

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Ridiculous amounts of shit is added to the oil you use - it doesn't make it to you in "crude" form. Pouring used motor oil back into the ground because it came from there is like flushing irradiated water from a nuke plant into the drinking water reservoir because "the water came from the Earth".

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I don't actually do that. It was a joke. Shit would poison my well and kill me, would be my luck.

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So to dispose of used motor oil in the early Sixties you needed a PhD? A Post hole Digger?

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I have about 35 gallons of various viscosity motor and lube oil saved in one of those blue polycarbonate barrels. Some may know this: mixed motor oil, diesel fuel, gasoline and dissolved sponge-like packing peanuts makes for a very sticky and highly flammable liquid. A gallon inside a 5-gallon bin makes a handy "pot a'feu", nes't pa?" Hey Kids! Don't try this at home! You'll burn the neighborhood down!

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An AvE subscriber...keep your dick in a vice!

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AvE?

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save it up and build an oil heater.

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Bad idea, all the chemicals in the oil make the fumes toxic.

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Sniff this exhaust till it gives you cancer, no disrespect I'm just going faster, just blowing past you, with no disaster, an inch off the wall and still going faster, you think I crashed it, but really, this whip grips like its made with electro-magnets. A tire-squealing time machine, you know what I mean? Cause when I unleash full steam, it seems the acceleration pulls the wrinkles in your skin bag, you get that? License plate as he went past, at the speed of sound dodging cars with no impact. Ask me where I'm going, I don't know, but I can tell you I'm never getting there slow.

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Sniff your exhaust and get sick isn't a disrespectful thing to say?

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you vent the flume just like a wood burning fireplace. As long as it's hot enough, there's no noxious fumes. I heat one of my garages like this.

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Still gets in the air though, seriously the fumes are nasty.

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This is why you vent it.

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Who is John Galt?

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i vaguely remember grampy changing his oil on the back lawn this way in the early 80’s.

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Shhh... This is how you get oil wells. The dems will not like it.