"John" wrote in
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interesting argument. What other company makes a 100 to 1 2 stroke
oil that AMSOIL is repackaging? Most all 2 stroke oils still recomend
50:1 but AMSOIL is 100:1?





Yamaha was recommending 100:1, at least the last time I checked but that
was quite a while ago. Maybe 100:1 wasn't making it to the end of the
warranty period and costing them money.

I can't find out anything about whos oil Amsoil is rebottling. I suspect
it might be because they buy oil on the open market, whoever's got the
API rating the cheapest. That makes sense both businesswise and
chemically. Everyone who thinks oil is different needs to take a little
trip to an oil ship terminal and poke his/her head down into the bilge to
see a little reality....

Oil, like fuel, comes from the oil market, a bunch of speculators and
other nasty beasts buying and selling the oil on its way across the
oceans to a large variety of refineries in some really terrible places.
India is building a new super-refinery to handle the demand. Mid East
crude will go to India to be refined into product and reshipped to the
USA. Do you think every little supertanker will have special oil for
every little oil company in America....or will they pour API SJ 15W-40
into a big tank and the corp beancounters will divvy it up at the
bottling plants.

I used to think oil was different, too, until I talked to the USCG
forensic oil lab in MD on the phone. I asked them if there was any
difference between Yamalube and Chevron TC-W3, as Chevron was making
Yamalube at the time, or so I thought.....

He told me he couldn't analyze ANY sample and come up with a brand name
on it because from same bottle to same bottle IT WAS ALL DIFFERENT!
This, I think, is more proof of the last statement in paragraph 3
above....they divvy it up and put their name on it, the cheapest way out
at the most profits, same as every corporation on the planet. The oil
lab said they could not point to a sample and say "That's Texaco TC-W3
you've got there." I was astonished, my vision of good oil smashed.

If you see a tanker that hauls products like gas, diesel, lube oils, do
try to get them to show you what's in those tanks before the slick
bottling plants get it. It floats on a layer of SEAWATER ballast! God
it was awful...yecch.

Of course, Amsoil is made one quart at a time in a clean room chemistry
lab by the finest chemical engineers on the planet who make every quart
in its own special way and analyze ever quart so you KNOW it's the finest
on the planet at the highest price.......right? Yeah, sure....(c;