any truth to this

using mineral oil in the car improves mpg??

http://home.bellsouth.net/p/s/commun...geid=248264&ck

dunno wrote:

using mineral oil in the car improves mpg??

If you wish it to be so and drive smoothly enough to make it so,
then yes.

John

"John Henderson" <jhenRemoveThis (AT) talk21 (DOT) com> wrote in message

If you wish it to be so and drive smoothly enough to make it so,
then yes.

John

:-)

using mineral oil in the car improves mpg??
If you wish it to be so and drive smoothly enough to make it so,
then yes.

I used to work with someone who had a readily available supply of
mineral insulating oil, and their diesel ran fine on it...

"Colin Wilson" <removeeverythingbutnewsgroup (AT) phoenixbbsZEROSPAM (DOT) co.uk> wrote
in message news:MPG.2077bfcde76bedbf989ed2 (AT) news (DOT) individual.net...

using mineral oil in the car improves mpg??
If you wish it to be so and drive smoothly enough to make it so,
then yes.

I used to work with someone who had a readily available supply of
mineral insulating oil, and their diesel ran fine on it...

No-one claimed it wouldnt run on it

"dunno" <dunno (AT) dunno (DOT) dunno> wrote

using mineral oil in the car improves mpg??

http://home.bellsouth.net/p/s/commun...geid=248264&ck

thin oil usually will show a mpg improvement, look at fords e oil, it even
says so on the can.

Also note that the above site is by an official redneck from a trailer park
with a pick up truck, so the improvement might even be caused by ufo's.

mrcheerful

MrCheerful wrote:

thin oil usually will show a mpg improvement, look at fords e
oil, it even says so on the can.

Agreed. But adding about 3% to the crankcase oil for a 30%
improvement in fuel economy? Without very creative driving, I
think not.

As I understand it, even the industry standard ACEA B4 for
improved economy engine oils only claims something in the order
of 1.3% improvement.

He's added some to the fuel as well, but no upper cylinder
lubricant that I'm aware of makes a measurable improvement to
economy.

John