If you deduct actual expenses, you can deduct the cost of the following items: Depreciation Lease payments, Registration, Garage rent, Licenses, Repairs, Gas, Oil, Tires, Insurance, Parking fees, Tolls etc If you use your vehicle for both business and personal purposes, you must divide your expenses between business and personal use. 

What little I can see on his initial blurry statement is that he is spending anywhere from $10-$13k in oil a year and $2-$3k in electricity.  

Repairs do not have to recapture when you sell the house too.)16) Utilities17) Pre rental expenses ( expenses incurred before finding a tenant )18) If you use your Car: This can include- oil changes, Maintenance, gas, repairs, parking, tolls, and depreciation.

I had one issue where a friend of his dropped off a broke down truck and left it on the driveway and it had leaked oil.

When dealing with the police, mental services etc the squeeky wheel gets the oil.

I know there has been some discussion of what it might look like with the drop of the price of oil.  

I will be graduating college tomorrow and moving to Midland, TX for a job in Oil & Gas (engineering) in June.

Right now coal is busting, and oil booming.

And when we do sell we make sure to advertise the extra insulation and low heat costs.We've also replaced almost all oil heat with gas heat and have updated other gas furnaces with new more efficient units in rental properties.

Today is brake pads and oil change on my 2010 Caravan.