krj wrote in
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I thought Amsoil was a synthetic, not a refined petroleum product.
Synthetics can be manufactured in any lab environment. Large cracking
plants are not required.
krj



What? You think they make it one quart at a time?

I doubt it....What's in Superior at the home office is a bottling plant out
behind Dolly Madison, or so the Dolly Madison people tell me. I'm just
trying to figure out what they're bottling that's so expensive....Mobile 1?

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Larry

Larry wrote:

krj wrote in
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I thought Amsoil was a synthetic, not a refined petroleum product.
Synthetics can be manufactured in any lab environment. Large cracking
plants are not required.
krj




What? You think they make it one quart at a time?

I doubt it....What's in Superior at the home office is a bottling plant out
behind Dolly Madison, or so the Dolly Madison people tell me. I'm just
trying to figure out what they're bottling that's so expensive....Mobile 1?

No, I don't think they make one quart at a time. Just said that they
don't need a refinery and cracking towers. Just a chemical plant.
krj

krj wrote:
Larry wrote:

krj wrote in
:

I thought Amsoil was a synthetic, not a refined petroleum product.
Synthetics can be manufactured in any lab environment. Large cracking
plants are not required.
krj

What? You think they make it one quart at a time?

I doubt it....What's in Superior at the home office is a bottling plant out
behind Dolly Madison, or so the Dolly Madison people tell me. I'm just
trying to figure out what they're bottling that's so expensive....Mobile 1?

No, I don't think they make one quart at a time. Just said that they
don't need a refinery and cracking towers. Just a chemical plant.
krj

That's because Larry believes that a synthetic oil is made from
petroleum so therefore it must have a refinery.


grandma Rosalie

Larry, you seem to be hung up on the fact that they don't make it
themselves. I don't see what the issue is, private labeling is extremely
common marketing. So they by by the barrel and sell by the quart, big
deal. I have a much bigger problem with the MLM aspect of it. It's the
cultism of the MLM's that gives me the creeps.

After reading this thread, I kept asking myself, what is 'synthetic' oil
anyway. So I went to one of my favorite sites, answers.com.

http://www.answers.com/synthetic%20oil
http://www.answers.com/Fischer-Tropsch%20process

John


"Larry" wrote in message
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krj wrote in
:

I thought Amsoil was a synthetic, not a refined petroleum product.
Synthetics can be manufactured in any lab environment. Large cracking
plants are not required.
krj



What? You think they make it one quart at a time?

I doubt it....What's in Superior at the home office is a bottling plant
out
behind Dolly Madison, or so the Dolly Madison people tell me. I'm just
trying to figure out what they're bottling that's so expensive....Mobile
1?

--
Larry

"johnhh" wrote in
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Larry, you seem to be hung up on the fact that they don't make it
themselves. I don't see what the issue is, private labeling is
extremely common marketing. So they by by the barrel and sell by the
quart, big deal. I have a much bigger problem with the MLM aspect of
it. It's the cultism of the MLM's that gives me the creeps.


Gives me the creeps, too. When I was young, I got sucked into Amway.
Scientology has nothing on Amway. Wanna see? Stand up in an Amway promo
meeting and ask what a pyramid scheme is...(c;

Amsoil is something "special". If it's Mobil 1, it's not. All I wanted to
know was what it was and who made it. Noone seems to have an answer. I
don't think they even let their "dealers" in on this secret....

Yamalube was a target a while ago of mine. Dealers hawk it at $30/gallon.
It turned out to be Chevron TC-W3, rebottled. Chevron is $8/gallon. Nice
markup....nothing special, though, as I suspect Amsoil isn't.

During my search for Yamalube's manufacturer, I called on the USCG oil
forensic lab in MD, where they tie the oil slick into the boat it came
from. I asked the lab guy what Yamalube acted like in his testing. He
told me the oil from different batches of the SAME manufacturer were
entirely different! This would point to my premise that oil is oil and
what you're buying comes from the "lowest bidder" for this lot, not the
manufacturer, even the oil manufacturer, on the label. His statements
reinforced my beliefs this is true. Could be anyone's oil brand in the
swamp.

--
Larry