Environment
How to Make Your Car Green to Help Reduce Global Warming
 Easy Ways to Make Your Car or Truck Greener and Help the Environment
Our engineers have selected the best products to help you make your car green. These advanced efficiency products increase fuel economy, reduce emissions, and dramatically extend oil change intervals to reduce waste oil. You will also see reduced maintenance costs, and extend the life of your vehicle.
Combining these products with fuel efficient driving methods produces maximum savings for you and the environment.
Foremost among these products are the oils you use in your engine and drivetrain. Synthetic motor oils, transmission fluids and gear oils have a proven reputation of increasing fuel efficiency. AMSOIL has been the leader in synthetic lubrication for automotive service since 1972.
Not everyone is able to downsize their vehicle or buy a hybrid to save energy, but whether you downsize or not, you'll want to use our Maximum Fuel Economy program for maximum efficiency and minimum emissions.
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Your Vehicle Wastes a Lot of Energy
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Only about 15% of the energy from the fuel you put in your tank gets used to move your car down the road or run useful accessories, such as air conditioning (see diagram). The rest of the energy is lost to engine and driveline inefficiencies. - U.S. Department of Energy
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MPG Performance has carefully selected products that reduce these energy losses,
increase gas mileage, and reduce exhaust emissions. |
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Increases Fuel Economy and Reduces Emissions
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INNOVATION AND EFFICIENCY REDUCES POLLUTION
We must select innovative, efficient products that will help solve our pollution problems. AMSOIL Synthetic Lubricants are not made from petroleum (unlike MOBIL 1 and most other synthetics). Petroleum oils volatilize (burn off) more readily than AMSOIL synthetic oils and create more emissions pollution. Each year nearly 600 million gallons of motor oil are burned and exit through the tailpipes of cars and trucks creating air pollution.
The introduction of AMSOIL synthetic motor oil in 1972 set all new standards for motor oil quality. AMSOIL lubricants are 100% synthetic. They are specially designed to protect engine components, reduce emissions, last longer, reduce fuel consumption and prevent environmental pollution.
AMSOIL synthetic motor oils resist chemical breakdown (which forms sludge) and keeps engines cleaner. They have been specifically designed not to oxidize, vaporize, or shear back, resulting in a motor oil that lasts longer than conventional petroleum motor oils. While petroleum motor oil manufacturers recommend oil changes every 3,000 miles.
AMSOIL synthetic motor oils protect engine components up to 25,000 miles or 1 year, dramatically extending oil change intervals and reducing waste motor oil pollution.
PRESCRIPTION FOR PREVENTION:
The first step in revitalizing a cleaner nation is pollutant source reduction. AMSOIL accomplishes this by extending the interval between motor oil changes which can reduce the source of motor oil pollution more than eleven times.
Consider this: over 200 million motorized vehicles are on the road in the United States alone, and an estimated 700 million motorized vehicles are in operation throughout the world. If, by petroleum oil manufacturer's recommendations, these vehicles have their oil changed every 3,000 miles on an average five-quart system, over
1 billion quarts of used oil will be generated each month. It is estimated at present that over 250 million gallons of oil are improperly discarded annually. Dumping 250 million gallons of oil is nearly the same as two Exxon Valdez spills each month!
How dangerous is used oil? Just one quart can produce a two-acre oil slick. One gallon of oil can make one million gallons of water too foul to drink and 35 ppm of oil will kill fish. Improperly disposed used oil is dangerous.
Improperly dumped used oil seeps through landfills into ground water, disrupts bacterial digestion in sewer treatment plants and washes into lakes and harbors. At present, used motor oil is the largest single source of oil pollution in our nation's waterways. Certainly the first thing we can do is not create so much used oil to begin with and the United States Department of Energy seems to agree.
Where does all the used oil go?
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40% is dumped on the ground or down the sewer.
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21% is thrown out with the trash, ending up in landfills.
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6% is burned.
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19% is reused for miscellaneous purposes.
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14% is recycled.
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Correct Tire Pressure
Properly inflated tires can increase your fuel economy up to 4%.
Under inflated tires have more rolling resistance and make your car burn more fuel. But what are the right pressures to use? What types of tire gages are the most accurate? And when is the only time that you should check your tire pressures?
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PREVENT BILLIONS OF QUARTS FROM BEING DUMPED
Most automobile manufacturers recommend oil drain intervals of 3,000 to 6,000 miles for petroleum motor oils. AMSOIL recommends up to a 35,000-mile oil change which is 5 to 11 times fewer oil changes. Just think about the savings on the environment if, for example, the 135 million cars (excluding trucks, buses and taxis) in the United States were equipped with AMSOIL motor oil. Assuming an average service-life of 100,000 miles and an oil capacity of 5 quarts each, 11.4 billion to 22.3 billion quarts of used oil will be generated during a regular service lifetime (with regular oil changes every 3,000 to 6,000 miles).
If you put 22.3 billion quarts of used oil into 55-gallon barrels and loaded them onto semi-trucks, a line of trucks would stretch end-to-end from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. and back to Los Angeles.
OTHER ECOLOGICAL/ECONOMICAL BENEFITS
Reduces Emissions: Increases Engine Life
Each year nearly 600 million gallons of motor oil are burned and exit through the tailpipes of cars and trucks, creating emissions pollution. Petroleum oils vaporize (burn off) more readily than AMSOIL synthetic oils and create more emissions pollution.
The graph here shows the results of 11 oils that underwent the NOACK Volatility Test. Of all the oils tested, AMSOIL shows dramatically less weight loss Some oils tested lost 20 percent of their weight. That means almost one fifth of the oil boils away and is released into the environment. For most cars, that's approximately a quart of oil being burned and expelled into nature.
 P.I. Performance Improver Gasoline Additive
- Cleans fuel injectors, valves, and throttle bodies
- Improved power
- Increased fuel economy
- Reduced exhaust emissions
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The thicker oil left behind after vaporization contributes to damaging deposits, sticky piston rings and oil blow-by, all of which cause reduced engine life, reduced fuel economy and increased air pollution.
"Each month, petroleum products emit the equivalent of an 'oil spill' into the Los Angeles Basin's air as massive as the 10-million-gallon spill from the Exxon Valdez, according to the South Coast Air Quality Management District."
SOLUTIONS
You can do your part by reducing driving and using our Maximum Fuel Economy program for maximum efficiency and minimum emissions. This program will also reduce maintenance costs and dramatically extend the life of your vehicle.
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