L.A. school district purchase CNG buses

L.A. school district purchase CNG buses

Diesel prices on slow climb through 2011

Diesel prices on slow climb through 2011

Wow, it's late. Good night "twitter land".

"Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing."
Redd Foxx (1922 - 1991)

UC San Diego group awarded $9M for algal biofuels research (San Diego Daily Transcript) http://ping.fm/a3T5h

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Hitler finds out they dragged knee before him at GMR.

What would cause and engine to throw a rod?

A customer called me today and said that he had a problem. He explained to me that a car that he had done a an engine oil and oil filter change on, came back with a blown motor. He blamed the damage to the engine on the oil that I had sold him. I won't mention the brand. I'll just say that it was a 10W-30 Synthetic Blend Motor Oil. The engine threw a rod 1,503 miles after the last oil change.

I immediately went to the shop and took a sample from the blown motor and from the tank in which the virgin engine oil is being stored. The samples were sent overnight to a laboratory to have the oil tested. We should find out in a couple of days what caused the engine failure.

I spoke with the company that blended the oil and I was told that it's impossible for an engine failure to occur after only 1,503 miles after and oil change unless there was a pre-existing problem in the engine. I was told that the engine had to be torn apart and the internal parts carefully inspected. I passed on this information to my customer, but he refuses to do it. He says he would be wasting his time. He really believes that the damage to the engine was caused by the engine oil that I sold him.