[SlowToady]

Since I work at JiffyLube, I've seen this yellowish foam stuff on a TON of cars, at least 2 or 3 a day. What it is is some kind of oil/water mixture that occurs from running the engine when it's very cold, ie, start it up, and you're off to the races. I hear the solution is to let it idle for 2 minutes or so in the morning before driving it.

You have nothing to worry about.

Doesn't oil consumption vary with how hard you drive it? In the first few weeks I had my Golf, I drove the piss out of it, and it used some oil. Now, after a full synthetic oil change, I've only put my foot into it once and 1000 miles later, not a bit lower on the dipstick. The harder I drove my 944, the more oil it used. I don't care what car it is, if I'm constantly slamming the throttle to the floor and genereally driving it hard, I expect it to use oil.