What is used motor oil worth and where can you sell it?

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i don't sell any i use it to heat the shop worth more to me then anyone else

I pour mine into several plastic, five gallon cans,and a friend who has a used oil furnace, picks it up when the drums are full!
Many years ago, i rented a garage during the winter, to work on my race car. the garage wasn't heated, so here's what we did:
I had an old pot-bellied stove, and inside it, i paced an old skillet, on the grates. Then, i ran a 1/4 inch copper tube from a 5 gallon oil can, down into the skillet. I installed a turn-off valve in the line.
To light the stove, i'd roll up some news-paper, several lumps of it, and turn on the oil valve to run about a quarter inch of oil into the skillet. Then i'd light the paper, close the door, and watch the fire thru he adjustable vent in the door. When the oil got to burning, i could regulate the flow, and the fire, with the valve. A small elctric fan hung above the stove would be run on slow, and it would heat the garage enough that we could work without coats or sweaters! We used old drained oil from the place i worked. Used several 5 gallon cans of it each winter.
BUT!!!
Have a regular fire extinguisher handy, in case of emergencies! Don't ask me why i said that--we had one! Almost burnt down the garage!

Unless you're in the oil change business, it's be hard to generte enough of it to be able to sell. As a rule, it's a waste product that people charge you to haul away. Yeah, the economics of tht are changin', but only for those that generate a volume. (Same idea as the renderers that are payin' for used fry oil now instead of chargin' to haul it off).

I generate probably 25 gal a year of used motor oil. My drain pans get funneled into five-gallon gear oil pails and periodically hauled off to the neighborhood garage for their waste oil burner. On the one hand it's a favor to me for havin' a place to take it. On the other hand, it's a favor to them for those cold Maine winter days. I'm a little on the up side on the deal, in that I don't have the problems other folks sometimes have gettin' in to have work done when I need it.

That's what used oil is worth to me.

Tell me it is worth $100/barrel and I will start collecting it to sell.

Times have changed! My buddy has a garage. They used to haul it away for free. They told him if he signed a contract with them they would PAY him $.40/gallon.

When I was with Ford, we picked up drain oil from several service stations around town to burn in our oil furnaces. They saved it for us in 55 gallon drums. I don't recall any money changing hands over it. I think they were just glad to have someone pick it up.

When I was with GM, drain oil from our oil change bay went directly down a pipe to a 1,000 gallon tank in the basement. Then was pumped back up to the furnace in the winter. We generated enough ourselves we didn't need an outside source.

I doubt any individual would generate enough for anyone to be interested, unless you had a huge amount stored.

Yep! I saw an article somewhere the last week or two where folks are startin' to steal used cooking oil from restaurants to sell to the bio-diesel processors. In the old days when they were payin' to have it hauled away, the restaurants would have been just as glad to see it disappear, but nowadays, it's theft because there's a market for it. Enough so that it's becomin' worth it to them to build fences around their storage areas to discourage the theft.

On the smaller scale, with diesel at the price it is, a years worth of my used oil 40 cents would barely cover my fuel costs to take it down to the garage. I don't have that many pails, though. Works out okay if I combine it with another trip I have to make with the truck and, given the small favors they do for me, it works out pretty good.

I filter my used motor oil and use it in the chain saw for bar/chain oil.

I was talking to a guy who ran an oil change service station till this year. I was talking to him about a home oil furnace and figured you couldn't get free oil any more. He said another garage in town used a waste oil furnace and they bought some waste oil from him for $.60 a gallon. I think a person could get all you want by running an ad that you're buying for $.50 gallon.

19.25/barrel in Southrn MN. 200 gal min.pick up.

Around here it varies .Heard it wa sbased on what heating oil cost . Buyers pay anywhere from .25 to .90 cents a gallon for used oil ,200 gal min . Mine goes to heat my shop , used oil furnance .Still have to find some from other shops and customers bring in gallons. Have few barrels at some shops ,,they call when it;s full ,,i swap em out with empty .
SO if anyone close to Cedar Rapids has oil ,,I'd gladly take it off your hands <keep me warm > !!!

we pay to have it hauled off....

i just noticed on my invoice from the quicklube shop they charge 2.00 for getting rid of it....

Lotta used oil is recycled. More than you want to know. Used to state right on the bottle, recycled oil. Nickel or dime cheaper. 20 years ago. Today?????