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From vehicle maintenance to community issues, Tom covers what matters to drivers in Portland.

We do DEQ-2!

With the current lines at Oregon DEQ, this can be a real relief! We do just about everything else for

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When Will YOU Switch To Synthetic Oil?

Not that many years ago, few people knew about synthetic motor oil and even fewer wanted to buy it.  Things

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Portland’s March For Science

We at Tom Dwyer Automotive Services are big supporters of a rational, science-based approach to life.  When you deal with

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What is a “Brownfield”?

How to clean up toxic eyesores in your neighborhood Ever heard of a ‘brownfield’?  You probably drove past one today

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Maintain Your Advantage- Keeping your vehicle saves thousands over buying new

The Green Living Journal “offers solutions to the serious energy, health, and environmental problems facing all of us.”  (If you

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A Company You Should Know About

Better World Club is building a better world, one roadside-assist at a time You know Tom Dwyer Automotive Services is

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FREE Solar Power- How to put a solar energy system on your house… for free!

Have you considered solar energy for your home or business?  If a company’s given you an estimate for solar then

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Save Green By Driving Green- Save 10% on labor charges… oh, and save the planet too.

Many of our clients don’t know about one of our shop’s proudest accomplishments, a partnership with Bonneville Environmental Foundation to

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Popcorn- BP spill almost returns to the news

Ahh, the agony of irony!  Two stories in the continuing saga of the BP destruction of the Gulf of Mexico

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Popcorn- What’s the greenerer readerer?

It’s no secret that more people are reading electronically these days… Kindles, Nooks, and all the rest.  Have you considered

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Mining St. Helens

    I’m Tom Dwyer, Some disasters are unavoidable.  When Mt. St. Helens erupted in the eighties all we could do

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Bartels Open Letter

I’m Tom Dwyer, Nuclear activist John Bartels recently wrote an open letter to Senator Ron Wyden about the ongoing and

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