You can damage your engine if you're not careful to use the right oil filter and replace the oil-drain plug without stripping its threads, or forget a leak-stopping gasket.
And in some regions, cottonseed hulls are processed into oil-drilling mud, a sticky, industrial-strength type of Play-Doh that is used to plug leaks in oil wells.
Yesterday, we learned that a procedure to prevent any more oil from spilling with a cement plug appears to have succeeded.
Importantly, this mud also acts as a kind of plug in the hole, preventing any oil and gas from blasting up out of the hole.
And following the intersection of the well bore with those relief wells, they will put heavy mud down there to suppress the pressure of the oil coming up from the reservoir, put a cement plug in and effectively do what I would call a bottom kill, as opposed to the top kill, which was not successful a couple of weeks ago.
Those estimates come while the oil is still flowing, with BP still fumbling for a plug.
Yesterday, the EV advocacy group Plug In America reacted emphatically to the rise in oil prices.
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PLC's failure to plug the mile-deep well that has been leaking oil since April is sending shudders down the spines of industry leaders who previously considered offshore exploration to be one of the last lucrative frontiers in the domestic oil business.
Shai Agassi, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur who dreamed of a world without oil, is stepping down as chief executive of Better Place, the plug-in car company he founded in 2007.
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He'd be even more gung ho if he had the confidence that every time he accidentally found oil, Pemex would pay him to produce it rather than order him to plug the well.
We also took a look at the BP's first massive oil containment dome, which the company plans to lower 5, 000 feet below the sea to plug up the leak.
Next, make the vehicle a plug-in hybrid (due in major makers' showrooms this year), and your oil savings rise to 97 percent.
Even more dramatic fuel savings can be achieved - both in terms of the costs and the consumption of foreign oil - if millions of Americans start driving not just fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles, but FFV-capable plug-in hybrids (PIH) with 500 mile-per-gallon-of-gasoline (mpgg) performance.
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