Q: With the cost of home heating oil spiking so high, I’m having trouble paying to heat the three-unit apartment house that I own. As I’m required to keep the temperature at or above 64 F, it’s ...

A technique using microwave heating looks promising for salvaging used motor oil as a source for fresh gasoline and diesel. Steve Mirsky reports To keep your car purring, you have to change the oil.

Why have your used engine oil hauled away when you can use it to heat your shop? Used engine oil is a terrific fuel, closely resembling No. 2 diesel fuel and furnace oil – except that it actually ...

Used motor oil can and should be recycled. It poses significant health and environmental risks if discarded improperly, and it offers a more efficient, less carbon-intensive alternative to making new ...

In its investigation of an oil-heat industry practice in which used motor oil is mixed with heating oil and sold as if it were pure heating oil, Crain’s learned that the government has known about the ...

Any DIYer worth their salt accumulates old oil. Cars, lawn mowers, recreational vehicles and hydraulic systems all produce dirty, used petroleum-based lubricants that must be carefully captured and ...

Used motor oil burned for heat and fuel each year releases 600,000 pounds of poisonous lead into the air-the largest source of airborne lead pollution in America. More than half of the 1.4 billion ...

Drivers think more about the gasoline or petrol they pay for at the pump than they do about the motor oil that has to be changed every few months. But energy companies and environmentalists are ...

In 1968, I worked as a petroleum engineer on some of the first exploratory oil wells drilled on Alaska’s North Slope. Those were rugged, fascinating days full of adventure. We were walking distance ...