Category Archives: Feature Articles
Help us give $1000 to charity… It’s time for our Referral Reward yearly award!
When our clients refer their friends, family, and co-workers to our shop, we definitely want to say thank you. Our Referral Reward program does that without offering self-serving oil changes or shop discounts; instead we make a donation in your … Continue reading
Glorious, Glorious Sellwood
Join us on a walk through our neighborhood “Glorious.” “Stunning.” “Incredible.” Our driver has heard these and many more adjectives as our Courtesy Shuttle wends its way through Sellwood, but none of them even begin to describe the breathtaking beauty … Continue reading
100% Carbon-Neutral Vehicle Fleet by 2025
Join our CNP now at an amazing special rate In 2007 we decided to help our clients drive carbon-neutral, so if they bought carbon offsets for their vehicles we offered a 10% discount on shop Labor charges and a really … Continue reading
YOU! Yes, YOU! You’re wrong. Here’s why.
Fascinating ways we’re wrong in almost everything we think Every day proves beyond reasonable doubt that almost everyone ‘out there’ is an idiot. But those people are looking at you too, and THEY know YOU’RE an idiot! Who’s right? Who’s … Continue reading
Buy a trip to Egypt… get your root canal for free!
Medical Tourism is a fun alternative to rational, reliable health care Single Payer. Single Payer. Single Payer healthcare (of one flavor or another) is the only rational, equitable, sensible way to manage health care in the US. We’ve been loud … Continue reading
Tulsa’s Quiet Riot
An internet meme shows a sepia photo of the KKK lining a dirt road. Above it is written “The Tulsa Riot of 1921… This is the worst riot in American history. 15,000 Blacks were left homeless, between 300 and 3000 … Continue reading
We Don’t Do Oil Changes at Tom Dwyer. (Actually, we never have!)
We know how it is. You’re driving when you notice the crusty old window sticker says you’re 2000 miles overdue for an oil change. You look around and see a Quick-Lube on the corner. It’s right there, calling to you, … Continue reading
We’re committed to the environment. So what?
It affects every part of our business! What’s the biggest contributor to atmospheric carbon dioxide? It’s not belching smokestacks or farting cows, it’s your car. Well, probably not your car individually, but in 2010 NASA announced that road transportation had … Continue reading
SkyNet Takes The Wheel- Brakes aren’t the problem with self-drivers… it’s when to use them
NIGHTMARE SCENARIO: You’re driving down the road when a child darts out in front of you. There’s no room to brake, but as you start to swerve you see the jogger in the other lane. No way around it, either … Continue reading
OpiMap- Opioid dealers are being hit with gigantic fines. Here’s why.
Two major stories in the news recently came from the plague of intentionally over-prescribed opioids that swept our country. In one, Johnson&Johnson was hit with a $572 million fine, and in the other the Sackler family proposed a $10-12$ billion … Continue reading