<VV> The price of synthetic oil...

[BobHelt at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/17/07 12:03:02 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
airvair at richnet.net writes:

> So how can they get away with calling it "synthetic?" Sounds like
> another case of being lied to.
> 
> -Mark
> 
> 

> Thought you knew the story. Back around 1993, Mobil 1 was a true synth 
> using a build up of chemicals to achieve their product. At the same time Chevron 
> had perfected a new hydrocracking process for crude that resulted in a 
> superbly refined oil. Castrol syntec became aware of Chevron's new oil and started 
using it and calling Syntec a synthetic oil.

Mobil took Castrol to court for misrepresenting their oil as a synth. However 
the court decided in Castrol's favor stating that......SYNTH OIL WAS NOT 
DEFINED BY HOW IT WAS MADE OR FROM WHAT IT WAS MADE, BUT BY ITS PROPERTIES.  It  
turned out that  Castrol Syntec had many of the same properties that real synth 
had.
So now, since synth made from crude is cheaper than synth made like Mobil 
did,
Almost everybody is making "synth" like Castrol did...from crude.

Regards,
Bob Helt









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