Petrosaver: Never Changing Oil Again – Too Good to be True?

As you all know, our family is committed to sustainability and so we are always looking for new ways that we can make changes to our way of life to emit less waste and conserve our natural resources. Our family vehicles include a PT Cruiser and a larger GMC vehicle. Both were purchased at a great price out of financial necessity. In other words, when we needed to purchase these vehicles, we were shopping on price and could not afford to consider hybrid alternatives.

Luckily, my husband’s work is within 5 miles of our house and mine is within 7-8 miles of our house, so our commutes are very minimal, but we still want to consider ways that we can retrofit our cars with devices to increase gas mileage and make them overall more efficient.

In our research about possible retrofits, we came across the Petrosaver. The Petrosaver claims that you’ll not only never change your oil again by installing it on your car, but that the oil in your car will actually become more refined, and it will extend the life of your vehicle. We wondered if this could be too good to be true, so we did our research and actually spoke with Margot Spera, a Petrosaver employee to find out more information.

The Champagne County Michigan Sheriff’s Department installed the Petrosavers on their entire fleet and have seen more than 3,000,000 miles without an oil change. That’s a savings of more then 1,000 oil changes, and 7,000 or more pints of oil.
The Petrosaver, once installed on a vehicle, acts as a bypas filter. This filter scrubs impurities from the oil and extends the life of the oil indefinitely. The filter on the Petrosaver is much finer than what you would find in a standard filter system on any vehicle now in operation, and therefore, it is able to catch and remove many more contaminants than standard in-line filters. The oil is filtered in two stages allowing it to separate out oil and particulate contaminants.

According to greenbigtruck.com, oil is most often contaminated by water, which breaks down its viscosity and lubricity. The other contaminants are generally dirt or metal shavings from the breakdown of the engine. By removing these contaminants from the oil, there is less wear and tear on the moving parts of the engine. Additionally, through use of the Petrosaver, the life of the oil can easily match the life of the vehicle in most instances.

If It Truly Works the Way They Claim, Then Why Don’t We All Have Petrosavers?

When we realized the value of this product and its true potential, we immediately wondered why the Petrosaver wasn’t out for market for regular consumers if it has been around for so long. Spera informed me that PetroSavers have been on the market for consumers  since 1990, almost exclusively in Louisiana.

For the past 20 years, the PetroSaver product has proven validity through local Louisiana customers and independent lab assessments. They have sold over 6,000 units worldwide in the past 15 years and have not had one failure. You would think this would be enough to prove the significance of their invention, but the owners report that they have met with significant resistance in bringing this product to market, because they developed the product as “outsiders” to the auto industry and because they created a product that reduces oil dependency in New Orleans, Louisiana, the heart of oil country.

The Petrosaver creators were received by the auto industry with some measure of hostility because the auto makers have made cars to be somewhat disposable, and according to Spera, they are resistant to utilizing any product that will extend the life of their product by such a significant degree. Petrosavers will introduce a smaller version of the refiner to the general public in 2011.

What Can We Do To Promote the PetroSaver?

So, what can we do to help encourage and support the Petrosaver and to spread the word about this innovation? Spera recommends that we take action at the local level, by showing up at local school board meetings and asking school board officials to start saving taxpayers money and to help the environment by installing Petrosavers on their fleets. We can do the same at city board meetings by encouraging police and fire fleets to be fitted.

Therefore, I am committing to do just that. My city has a meeting on 12/13 at 7:00 p.m. I’ll get the kids an early dinner and show up with literature in hand. Our school board doesn’t meet until January, but that doesn’t mean I can’t get an early jump on spreading the word with a few emails! I’ll keep you all updated with my progress and I hope that you do the same.

I’ll update this site as soon as the Petrosaver is more widely available and as soon as we can get one installed in St. Louis, we will do it and report back on our experience.