Did you seriously just post a article word for word? Why? I can find news sites just fine, why don't you at least offer your opinion?

I think the 3,000 mile oil change is BS. The oil companies stand to lose money if you change oil less often.

Think of why they even created "synthetic blends." Same change interval as regular oil, and priced between regular and synthetic. Because all it is is 50% regular, 50% synthetic. Despite this, some people STILL think that you can't mix synthetic in a car with regular oil. If they don't know that that hasn't been true for 30 years, how can they bring themselves to deny the 3,000 mile interval?

If I had a new car, it would get synthetic. I have old cars though, and am doing fine with my 5,000+ mile intervals. I've yet to have a car outright DIE on me. Except the RX-7 that already had 228,000 miles on it at the time.