I think that would have been the Group-5 "Pine scented" oil. ;)
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Preston [mailto:steveophonic@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 6:45 PM
To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
Subject: Re: DML: RE: ...Mileage...and oil
The bottles that I bought at Walmart were in the
fourth row over from the Pine tree air fresheners,if
that makes any difference. So that would have been
group 4. :)
Steve P.
--- jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:
>
> "Bernd D. Ratsch" <bernd@dodgetrucks.org> wrote:
>
> > It's still the same crude oil that's used Jon.
> The grade is mainly the
> > quality of the crude...it's still all from crude.
> Some people think that
> > "synthetic" means that the oil was made from some
> mad scientist in a
> > lab...that's not where it comes from.
>
>
> That is only partially correct. Although groups
> 1, 2 and 3 are
> indeed created from petroleum, group 4 base stock is
> a true synthetic,
> not derived from petroleum. It is created via a
> chemical reaction,
> "in a lab", as you say. (The sanity of the
> scientists involved
> notwithstanding.) :-) Although *most* "synthetic"
> oils are actually
> created from group 3 base stock, some are created
> from group 4, such
> as the original Mobil 1, I think Mobil 1 is group 3
> now though.
> Anyway, there are no dead dinosaurs in group 4.
> Group 5 is also a
> true synthetic, though I don't know of any oils
> using it as a base
> stock, group 5 is usually used to formulate
> additives.
>
> A related factoid: Oil companies are allowed to
> call "synthetic"
> oil based on group 3 base stock a synthetic because
> of the Exxon/Mobil vs
> Castrol lawsuit in which Castrol was able to
> convince the court that
> group 3 was of sufficient quality to market the oil
> as a "synthetic".
> (Mobil 1 was using group 4 which is a true synthetic
> and Castrol
> Syntec was being made from the less expensive group
> 3 and undercutting
> Mobil 1 sales. Exxon/Mobil sued Castrol to stop
> them from calling
> group 3 oil synthetic, but Castrol won.)
>
>
> --
> -Jon-
>
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