My brakes were in need of a change and I had my oil done at the dealership.

No oil changes, no belts, etc.

Platinum-grade batteries with a three-year warranty, brake pads guaranteed for life, windshield wipers changed every year, Michelin tires changed every 2 years, oil changed every 5000 miles.

In the 70s, it was oil that caused negative ripples through the economy.  

In my conception of putting up a pole-barn roof over an house-trailer, the poles (pillars) would be oil-drill steels, of 26 feet long, which would be put in the ground, 10 feet down, so that winds can't pull such a roof up, by pulling the pillars out of the ground.

The Saudis lowered oil prices by $10/barrel yesterday to flood the market in an oil war with Russia and to stop the record breaking oil production in the US.

Whale oil was a giant industry, then along came this Eddison guy and his light bulb and "poof" that industry is dead.

I worked 6 years as a drilling engineer. 4 years in Dubai for the national oil company and 2 years with a major E&P Oil and Gas company here in Houston.

They speculate itll return to 6% this winter but that info wont come out til 2024 you need to tag @James Hamling , he is so hilarious with how SPR oil reserves declines and oil is still three-bucks-something lol.

Houston and Dallas are more effected by oil than Austin and right now oil is a problem.