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  2. Avoid These 7 Oil Change Scams and Problems - AOL

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    Whereas the average oil change ranges from $20 to $100, it should cost around $30 to $45 to do at home. While that doesn’t include extra tools you may need, such as a ramp and filter wrench, you ...

  3. Ex-CIA Deputy Director Frank Carlucci Fell for This Scam ...

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    The huckster in question, Michael Han, and his company, West Palm Beach-based Envion, had offered the prospect of taking scraps of plastic waste, originally manufactured from oil, and converting ...

  4. Great Oil Sniffer Hoax - Wikipedia

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    The Great Oil Sniffer Hoax was a 1979 scandal involving French oil company Elf Aquitaine. The company spent millions of dollars developing a new gravity wave-based oil detection system, which was later revealed to be a scam. Elf lost over $150 million in the hoax. In France, the scandal is known as the "Avions Renifleurs" ("Sniffer Planes"). [1]

  5. Total productive maintenance - Wikipedia

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    Total productive maintenance (TPM) was developed by Seiichi Nakajima in Japan between 1950 and 1970. This experience led to the recognition that a leadership mindset engaging front line teams in small group improvement activity is an essential element of effective operation.

  6. List of Ponzi schemes - Wikipedia

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    In June 2014, the Securities Exchange Commission alleged that Tom Abraham and Kenneth Grant, their company KGTA Petroleum, Ltd., stockbrokers Jeffrey Gainer and Jerry Cicolani, and others orchestrated and/or helped promote a Ponzi scheme related to KGTA, a petroleum company that purported to earn profits by buying and reselling crude oil and ...

  7. How an Oil Baron's Heir Cleaned Up a $1.4 Billion Internet Scam

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    When Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) took over the Senate Commerce Committee in 2009, he wisely decided to focus on using his leadership position to make life better for consumers. In ...

  8. Seed oil misinformation - Wikipedia

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    Seed oils are characterized by the industrial process used to extract the oil from the seed and a high content of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs). [10] Critics' "hateful eight" oils consist of canola, corn, cottonseed, soy, sunflower, safflower, grapeseed, and rice bran oils, [ 8 ] which are creations of industrialization in the early ...

  9. Column: The Getty oil fortune, a family scandal and an ...

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    Their forebear J. Paul Getty was judged in the 1950s to be the richest man in the U.S., and possibly the world, thanks to a fortune built from oil wells in Oklahoma and Saudi Arabia.