Wednesday, April 28, 2010

I picked up a new car for my wife today and noticed it has a oil leak?

the garage is going to have a look at it on monday should i worry or is it normally a simple fix?I picked up a new car for my wife today and noticed it has a oil leak?
I've never heard of an oil leak on a brand new car. What is the make and model? If it was a used car, they usually change the oil before they sell it. Could be a major problem or perhaps the oil filter isn't tightened properly.I picked up a new car for my wife today and noticed it has a oil leak?
Find out the cause before freaking out. It could be as simple as a loose oil filter or drain plug. Good thing you covet it right away though. Also give the place a chance to fix it before making a fuss. I know it's annoying but it happens so if they are willing to make it good, give them that much.
If you want to drive it for the weekend keep an eye on the oil level, and oil pressure. If it's a used car and it's not a HUGE amount of oil then it may or may not be a real problem depending on where it's leaking from.
It depends on where the oil is leaking from as to how difficult it is to fix. If you are driving it over the week end I advise that you keep a close eye on the oil level just in case.
If this is a brand new car it is most likely that something like an oil drain plug or oil filter has not been tightened properly. I would not worry unless your garage thinks that the car has been running with low oil for some time.
Your first mistake was to buy your wife a new car.
A new car...or new to you...is the question you need to answer for us.

>>>How long ago did the oil that's being used today form<<<?

Basically anywhere from 10 to 150 million years ago. The North Sea for instance has oil that was formed by the compression of vegetable and animal matter that settled and then has had sediment layered on top causing a downward pressure. The oil in the North sea is approximately 30-60 million years old or about the end of the Jurassic period.

Why does Obama Think if America Finds Oil Today, that's Bad but if Saudi Arabia Finds Oil, it's Good & ?

..... America is better off buying oil from Saudi Arabia, Iran and Venezuela?





Doesn't Obama realize how many Americans can be helped with the tremendous royalties and corporate taxes that are paid by oil companies? Couldn't that money be used to provide education, healthcare, highways, heating assistance, and property tax relief?Why does Obama Think if America Finds Oil Today, that's Bad but if Saudi Arabia Finds Oil, it's Good %26amp; ?
He's a DEMOCRAT they don't know how to create wealth, they only know how to steal it from the people that have it.Why does Obama Think if America Finds Oil Today, that's Bad but if Saudi Arabia Finds Oil, it's Good %26amp; ?
First off oil is a world market, if we produce oil it all goes into the same bucket as every other country. Second, we could not even come close to getting all the oil we need by drilling in the US. Third oil is not sustainable, eventually it will run out and become more expensive. More jobs will be created by going green and they will be created in the US. Obama has a plan for a LONG term solution.
Its the same logic that says, ';let the Chinese use coal, but we won't do it here';.





Why Obama, Biden, and other democrats think its ok for other nations to ';destroy'; their piece of earth, while we can't touch our piece...





They are perfectly willing to continue to pump billions into foreign economies and take their oil and other products, but not on our land, for our workers?





Its a joke...and seemingly...half of us are falling for the gag....
Obama wants the US to progress beyond fossil fuels and into something renewable. Also, drilling for oil has a lot of attendant environmental impacts, not to mention any oil we begin drilling for today will take YEARS to reach our markets.
I'm not sure as to what your asking.


I don't think Obama said that.


We know where the oil is in the U.S.


It's called our reserves. We are suppose to reserve it.


The less we refine oil in the U.S. the less polution we make here.








I think you need to read facts.
America is better off using its own oil. If I were president I could not wait till the the day was announced that we imported no oil. I would then gather as many Americans as possible flipping the bird and send that pic to Opec.
That is a very good question and I do not have an answer for you. But, I have a question to ask too:


Why does Obama think it is ok to bankrupt the entire coal industry and raise prices on electricity?
Obama wants us not to have ANY oil period. Problem is his plan would prematurely try to eliminate the old sources before we have new ones planted.



We shouldn't be on oil or any other fossil fuels PERIOD.





We should have had alternative fuel technology 25 years ago.
He supports offshore drilling. Stop listening to entertainment radio and thinking it is news.
He doesnt care. He is going to try and turn the USA over to the UN which in turn will turn the USA over to the middle east
Notice, too, that oil prices are up today, since he's about to win. They know we won't be getting our own oil.
Obama is an anti-American Marxist who thinks we should not be better than any other country.
What part of he hates America do people not understand?
because hes an idiot
not dealing with a full deck are we?

If usa,were to start drill for today?would that new oil help us now or with one year? and keep the price down?

Or will the drilling just make thing cost more anyway?If usa,were to start drill for today?would that new oil help us now or with one year? and keep the price down?
Not sure when we would see that oil, but definitely price would go down for a while.If usa,were to start drill for today?would that new oil help us now or with one year? and keep the price down?
I agree with Fox and Filthy. The giant price spike was not caused by a supply problem. Extra supply does lower the price a bit... maybe enough to buy an extra candy bar at the station. It is inconceivable to me that futures traders are going to make significant lasting changes in the price of oil based on the fact that we *might* drill and *might* have extra supply in a decade. This is ridiculous, considering that these guys find an excuse to raise the price every time the slightest little thing happens to scare them. And as Fox said, even if we have greater supply due to domestic drilling, they will easily find another reason to keep the price up. I have no idea why people are so excited about domestic drilling. Especially since we should be focused on all owning a volt in 10 years anyways. Hopefully by then I won't care very much about the price of oil. Domestic drilling gets people excited for two reasons- it makes some rich people another chunk of cheap change. And it gives republicans a way to blame democrats.





Add- the price always goes down at the end of summer. but limbaugh and his clones try their best to give credit to the republicans.
it will help NOW!





Oil is being traded on the futures market, which goes up in estimation of how much oil will be available in the future. hence why when a scare of a pipe closing in the ME happens it immidately jumps up.





If you drill here and now, your showing the rest of the world, there will be a WHOLE lot more oil comming onto the market in the future, and thus the price of oil will have no choice but to drop.





Simple supply and demand. economics 101





Why cant washington seem to get that?





If you listen to some of these obot genisuses that know nothing, there afraid thinking it wont even be available for 10 years, when in the meantime, obamas plan does NOTHING but MIGHT be available in 10 years, no guarentee. but hey! keep inflating your tires!





10 years ago Clinton Vetoed drilling ANWR. Now wher eare we? 70% dependant on foreign oil.
The gas prices are up because speculators are speculating more of a need for oil. So, when they do that, this raises gas prices. If we start drilling today, the speculators shouldn't put the price as high, and this should lower our prices.





Another thing I saw that is haing prices up, other countries in the world are driving more, so they have a demand for more oil, so this is causing the prices to go up too.





Will we get back to lower than $3 a gallon, sure, we could even get down to $2.50 a gallon, but the speculators need to quit guessing, and go with what is fact, not what they think its going to be.
There are currently tens of thousands of acres of oil fields in the US that are leased to oil companies where they are not currently drilling.





Allowing offshore drilling to start today would take at least 10 years for any gasoline produced therefrom to reach the consumer, and, at best, could lower gasoline prices by 5垄 per gallon. In about 2018.
No - the republicans are just using it as their present Big Whine!





It will be 2030 before any oil drilled right now will reach the market. FOX ';News'; lied that down to a few months at one point. But 2030 is even the White House figures on when that new oil would reach the market.





So - no - dilling won't keep the price down - but it will increase the profits of Big Oil real good - and that's why the republicans are pushing it. They are the handmaidens of Big Oil - each and every day - with every lie they tell.
I've heard estimates from both sides and people who seem to be neutral on the issue, and the consensus seems to be that it will NOT help now. How long it will take to see that oil if we started drilling tomorrow seems to be up for debate, but I haven't heard anyone say anything under 10 years, but mostly I've heard 20 years. Then it's a matter of how much we keep versus sell in the international market.





People who are for drilling and against or resistant to alternatives say that alternatives will take years as well. They are right, but since people have been asking for alternatives since the '70s, and I've heard mostly that alternatives will take 20 - 30 years, I have to think that if they'd started seriously looking for alternatives 30 years ago, we wouldn't be in quite the mess we are now. I mean, let's say it takes 20 years for the oil (a finite and polluting resource), and it takes 20 years for a resource that is infinite and pollutes less, isn't it logical to opt for the alternative? Neither solves the NOW problem, but if we can solve the future problem, why not get to work on that while figuring out the ';now'; problem so we don't have another ';now'; problem in another 30 years?
Americans have driven over 12 billion miles LESS this past year alone compared to our average every year. If we're driving that much less, doesn't that show you that the amount of oil they have and the amount we use are unrelated when it comes to pricing. The more oil they have to sell, the more of it they will sell at $4 and up per gallon. It doesn't matter where they drill, how much they drill, or what they find; You and I are going to pay dearly for it.
If Congress got of it's collective butt and removed restrictions on drilling *AND* production, the world price per barrel (and domestic price per gal) would most likely drop relatively quickly even though actual production would be a couple of years away... because of the perceived future increase in world wide supplies of oil


But even *IF* the price of a gal of gas didn't drop very much the US would be *MUCH* better off because we wouldn't be sending hundreds of billions of dollars to foreign countries (many of whom hate our guts) thus reducing our balance of trade defect and possibly even moving it to a positive. The biggest benefit is that we wouldn't have to modify our foreign policy to please rogue states just because we need the oil.
If the US were to start drilling offshore for oil, we may see relief in approximately 30 years. Nationally, gas prices would be affected by only a few cents per gallon, assuming success in the targeted locations. This oil would then be sold on the open market, so the U.S. advantage would ultimately be nil.
Hell, if you listen to some of the economic geniuses on YA, the reason the price of oil is going down now is because McCain and Bush WANT to open up offshore drilling, instead of reduced demand.


Bush and McCain are so all-powerful that simply their wishes affect the economy.
Supply and demand would basically say any more supply would lower price. With people buying and selling futures on the price in 15 months or 3. These futures also influence price. With less futures traders buying, because there will be more supply. The price will go down too.
The simple threat of drilling has already caused the price to come down, and yes I think supply would be increased in a year. Notice what has happened to oil prices since Bush called for more drilling.





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Oil companies will always find excuses to increase prices. Why? Because oil WILL run out no matter where you drill.
You're right. Hey, since I won't get paid for at least three weeks I wont bother getting a job.
Does it really matter? Democrats said ten years ago that we wouldn't see any benefits for ten years. Look where that got us.
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  • Okay today, Why was my mom sitting in her car with the hood up whil my dad checked the oil in her car for her?

    I need 20 answers in all please.Okay today, Why was my mom sitting in her car with the hood up whil my dad checked the oil in her car for her?
    ....... he wanted to control the garage bills.Okay today, Why was my mom sitting in her car with the hood up whil my dad checked the oil in her car for her?
    answer 2
    because he knew more about cars?
    uhh this question sucks? does that count as an answer?

    Someone please help me,what is the latest price of oil per barrel today?

    42.16 spot price at the time of my answer.Someone please help me,what is the latest price of oil per barrel today?
    I don't know the exact number but they mentioned it on cnn about 45 minutes ago and I know they said it was about 40 something dollars.

    Obama supporters, Do you feel better that the stock market crashed, and oil is up to $147 today?

    woopy-doo!


    we want the economy in a mess and higher gas prices till election day so more and more people vote for Obama for change!Obama supporters, Do you feel better that the stock market crashed, and oil is up to $147 today?
    Well, Obama has this election won, hands down..





    but, no, i'm not glad that the price of oil has gone up..Obama supporters, Do you feel better that the stock market crashed, and oil is up to $147 today?
    No, I'm not. I'm actually kind of offended my your question. Not so much personally, but I just see how deeply this economic meltdown and how fuel prices are affecting low-income folks and elderly. This isn't funny, people are starving out there. And to think that Mr. Obama can just come around and fix it all is completely unrealistic. Even Winston Churchill could only fix so much. I'm happy that Mr. Obama is however talking to the public and presenting himself as a real person. He is imperfect, he wants alternative energy, a Iraq pullout (at some point), and he is doing his best to be diplomatic by wanting to sit down and talk with terrorists. He's willing to be a grown-up. The republican idea of ';blow them up and they'll go away'; hasn't been very successful and has cost too many lives. ok I'll stop ranting. Have a nice day!
    I dunno....either way I don't see what the advantage to the American wage-earner would be to continue allowing the lunatics of the current GOP to run the show. No matter how you slice it these guys have not delivered anything but trouble and incompetence. Have they done anything to make it possible for the American wage-earner to afford health insurance? No! Have they attempted to move away from our 'oil only' energy policy? No! Have they done anything to address climate change? No! Have they done anything to keep our entire industrial infrastructure from going the way of the buffalo? No! Have they won a war lately? NO! Have they protected our borders. No! They haven't even made an effort to keep our tomatoes safe! So why NOT vote for Sen. Obama? I'm sure that his administration would be a lot more labor friendly and reasonable than the Bush Junta's....a cabal of losers that John McCain is now firmly in bed with. You guys can drive around smirking in your toy swift-boats from now to election day if you want, but that isn't going to help a slowly suffering and an increasingly financially strapped US population. Two words, bro! Grow up! No kiddin'!
    The Stock Market has not crashed YET.............


    But because of Dictator Bush oil will go in the the 4 digit area($1000.00) a barral and The Dow will fall into the single digit


    ($9.00 from 13,000 2 months ago) area. That will be the reason Bush declares himself Dictator For Life.


    and then the armed revolution will start
    Well, since I own a lot of stock in oil and energy companies, the higher prices have helped my portfolio. Thanks for asking.





    I love these continuing examples of Cons and Republicans blaming everyone else for the messes they create.
    do you, with your lame question you continue the division of America. you continue to distract America from talking about the real problems America is facing








    let the self serving 2 party's fade into history





    vote 3rd party





    time for a real change
    Yes, it is all Bush's ploy to get Obama elected. Bush's family fortune was made in oil, and he can't wait to get Obama in office so gas prices go down.





    You are a genius!
    No, but I new it would happen. When you have fake unemployment rates, this is what happens to the economy. All you have to do is look up why Reagan had to close the Wall Street down back in the 80's.
    Is that any worse than McCain supporters wanting a terrorist attack to happen in the US so that people will vote for McSame?
    Don't know where you are coming from -but


    I remember the movie - Titanic, and who the people were that got on the life boat and who did not.
    Interesting, whenever Obama rises in the polls, the stock market drops.
    That just turned my day around.
    No I want oil to get so expensive that we will drill thru Santa's toy factory to get oil.
    I blame Bush for the way things are today, and yes, that is why i have never been a republican and never will!
    Is this a Republican's attempt at snark? I think you should stay away from the sarcasm. Its not working for you.
    No but the GOP ';Grand Oil Party'; must be happy for the extra profit.
    What a bunch idiots! Grow up and get out of mommy and daddy's pocket.
    Are you on drugs? this is not a game but the product of an irresponsible administration. We are suffering just like you
    Much better, thank you!
    yes I do!
    It would drive me wild with excitement .. except, who can afford to drive?