valvoline recycled oil

[dusty3030]

Nexgen is made from re refined base oil.
Re refined base oil is actually semi synthetic and is as high or higher quality as virgin base oil made from crude. The used motor oil is a mix of synthetic and conventional and is a much higher quality feed stock to refine than crude is.
The additive package mixed in to make the base oil into the graded API spec motor oil is the same as they add to their virgin base oil product.
The biggest advantage of this product is that it creates American jobs and lowers demand for foreign oil. It also creates competition to the refineries that make virgin base oil. The refineries that are doing the recycled base oil are smaller, regionally spread out across the USA and are not owned by the big oil companies.

 

[dusty3030]

Forgot, nexgen is only 50 percent re refined, it's 50 percent virgin as well, hence the price of it. A full re refined product would be a better end product and value.

 

[DarkBlack]

Me thinks burning used oil in a local waste oil burner for heating, or in a local
diesel engine as fuel, is probably more 'green' than shipping it back and forth to processing plants and to distribution centers- to walmart etc...and all the energy expended making it back into 'new' oil, advertising etc...

 

[Qapla]

Haven't tried the used oil as fuel, but we have added tyrany fluid to the diesel. My brother works for a NAPA and when they get some that they cannot sell (for various reasons) he brings it home and we "extend" the fuel.

So far, no problems. One gallon of of free tyrany oil in a 10 gal tank full of diesel helps with the cost of the fuel.

 

[Diamondpilot]

I know the guy who owns all the local Jiffy Lube's. He has a airplane at the airport I work at. I asked him years ago about used motor oil. He said its a gold mine and people who burn it to heat a shop are idiots. I was really surprised because I know a couple of people who have oil burners in the shops at the farm, ect.

At the time, maybe back in 2007 or so, he said used oil brings about $.75 per gallon. Think about how much a place like Jiffy Lube sells back per year. He said he has gas heat in all his stores and he could keep the doors open and the heat cranked up year around and still be ahead compared to trying to burn used waste oil with the money it brings in.

Long story short, recycle your oil. You will never be money ahead doing something else with it. I change oil about 75 times per year so that is roughly 100 gallons of oil. I asked him about selling it but he said no company would come get less than a few hundred gallons. Anything less is not worth the time, so I just take it to Auto Zone, WalMart, or Napa. They are happy to take it back so they can resale it.


Chris

 

[clemsonfor]

I know the guy who owns all the local Jiffy Lube's. He has a airplane at the airport I work at. I asked him years ago about used motor oil. He said its a gold mine and people who burn it to heat a shop are idiots. I was really surprised because I know a couple of people who have oil burners in the shops at the farm, ect.

At the time, maybe back in 2007 or so, he said used oil brings about $.75 per gallon. Think about how much a place like Jiffy Lube sells back per year. He said he has gas heat in all his stores and he could keep the doors open and the heat cranked up year around and still be ahead compared to trying to burn used waste oil with the money it brings in.

Long story short, recycle your oil. You will never be money ahead doing something else with it. I change oil about 75 times per year so that is roughly 100 gallons of oil. I asked him about selling it but he said no company would come get less than a few hundred gallons. Anything less is not worth the time, so I just take it to Auto Zone, WalMart, or Napa. They are happy to take it back so they can resale it.


Chris

Not saying your lieing but this dont make any sense? I bought #2 deisel last yr to put in my heating oil tank for $2.69/gallon, if it could burn used oil i think even at that price its close to a $2gallon savings? Im sure i can mix in say 5 gallons a yr into that 30 yr old oil furnace and never notice a difference. and that would save me at my prices close to $10 on that quantity alone. yet if i sold that 5 gallons i would make $3.75.

 

[DarkBlack]

I know the guy who owns all the local Jiffy Lube's. He has a airplane at the airport I work at. I asked him years ago about used motor oil.
Long story short, recycle your oil. You will never be money ahead doing something else with it. I change oil about 75 times per year so that is roughly 100 gallons of oil. I asked him about selling it but he said no company would come get less than a few hundred gallons. Anything less is not worth the time, so I just take it to Auto Zone, WalMart, or Napa. They are happy to take it back so they can resale it.


Chris

I disagree.People around here are paying almost $4 gallon for #2 for heating and engines. Your 100 gallons that you give away for someone else to profit on, is almost $400 of heating you need to buy if you heat with oil. Anyways, since when is a single jiffy lube owner an expert on energy economies?

 

[John Morgan]

Good point DarkBlack. Any quick oil change business is very good at taking the cheapest, lowest quality oil and selling it as quality product. If the general public had even the slightest education on engine oil, many of those business' could'nt make it. I can't tell you how many people I talk to that don't even know how to check their own oil. The oil companies thrive by perpetuating consumer ignorance.

 

[OkieDave]

Long story short, recycle your oil. You will never be money ahead doing something else with it. I change oil about 75 times per year so that is roughly 100 gallons of oil. I asked him about selling it but he said no company would come get less than a few hundred gallons. Anything less is not worth the time, so I just take it to Auto Zone, WalMart, or Napa. They are happy to take it back so they can resale it.

So...you're saying I will be "money ahead" by giving it away for free rather than using it myself? Yeah, I'm not buying that one. Sorry.

 

[adjusterr]

In the early 50's I worked at a gas station in western maryland, The owner had 50 gal drums behind the station where we would dump oil drained during oil changes. We were instructed to keep the drain pans/containers, clean and the drums were marked indicating which was the active dump drum. When a drum was full, it was sealed and would set for months without being disturbed. After the drum set, the owner would take a hand pump with a pickup pipe which reached about 3/4 down into the drum, pump the oild out into glass quart jars with a metal pour spout and cap and sell the oil for .25 a quart. The oil looked exactly the same as the new oil we sold. When I was finally able to purchase my own car, I used that oil for years. I have been told oil doesn't wear out, it simply gets dirty. I guess the oil in the drum set there until the solids settled to the bottom.