Slick Deal No Savings to City -- Questionable Oil Additive Big Expense, Little Benefit

Summary

---

When Ron Weathers, a Las Vegas fight promoter with a checkered past, promised his "X-52" motor oil additive would improve mileage and reduce emissions, Memphis automotive managers scoffed.

But not the man in charge of city government's fleet of 5,800 vehicles.

See the full content of this document

Extract

---

Slick Deal No Savings to City -- Questionable Oil Additive Big Expense, Little Benefit

At the direction of General Services Director Estrice "Bud" Boone, taxpayers have spent more than $900,000 on the additive since 2004. X-52 comes blended in 250-gallon drums of motor oil at nearly double the price of conventional oil.

Boone was terminated in January as part of Mayor A C Wharton's transition to power but the purchases - more than $37,000 a month - continued until The Commercial Appeal began an examination this mont...

See the full content of this document

---