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I mentioned that awhile back. You are right that this has impacted the price.

You will talk me into oblivion. The current rise is due to the rise in the price of oil. That was the push factor. Period. All the other factors were already built into the price prior to the increase. I think the current world situation and price of cude is the obvious push on the...

¨That's not how pricing works. Pricing is set by how much people will pay.¨ That´s what you wrote after I said it goes up and down with the price of oil, with some lag. The second sentence you wrote discounted the price of oil as a factor. I think any reasonable person would interpret what...

We shall see. It doesn´t look bad on the videos. And the air quality index isn´t much worse than down here in Indianapolis. I hope they get some rain in Alberta. Hate to see them dealing with all that up there.

Lots of stuff came in today. 6 B-25´s, OV10, C-5, P-7, bunch of WW2 fighters, and a C-130. I´m sure there is more, but that´s what I see right now.

I remember when someone chartered a Concorde and it flew into Indianapolis, I want to say in the early 1990´s. It stopped traffic on I465 near the airport as it approached. Dead stop. Everyone got out of their cars to see it. Amazing! The time I was there around 2018, there was a C-5. I...

So you are saying the current increase in the price of motor oil has nothing to do with the rise in the price of crude oil? Please explain how it does work, then.

Oh wow! That kind of trip would be unbelieveable! I´m hoping to get a motorhome in the next few years and when I retire, which will be in about 7 years, my wife and I plan to spend the whole week up there, God willing. I can´t imagine the fun of camping under a DC-3 like that.

It goes up and down with the price of oil, too. Always has. It is just usually slower to react to the oil market fluctuations. It´s always been that way, too.

For awhile. Maybe a good while. But it always goes up and down. I am old enough to rembmer when it was believed that all the known reserves were all that was left in the world. Then later there was the post Gulf War glut where we saw what I think, adjusted for inflation, were the lowest gas...

It´s that time of year again! I went to Oshkosh probably in 2018 or 2019 and yearn to go back every year. But even if I can´t go, I get captivated by the live cams and the arrival/depature videos. Fortunately, I get to go this year. We´re leving Friday and getting a hotel in Racine. We´ll...

IF an engine ran half a million miles for me, still ran well, and had some pretty bad deposits inside it, I would not know it and probably would not care at that point. But I´ve seen the valve train on a couple of my engines at or near 200k miles and they looked clean as can be, with almost no...

I´m a pretty old guy with many cars over the years and haven´t seen it yet. I probably should buy a lottery ticket since I appear to have been extremely lucky never to have an oil related failure using Mobil 1, Pennzoil, or non-Valvoline Restore and Protect products for so many years.

What´s pound foolish about continuing to do what has worked flawlessly in the past?

That´s likely what I´ll do, or something similar. I was thinking 2 OCI´s, then wipe out my stash of Mobil 1, then assess whether to keep going that route or go fully to Valvoline Restore and Protect. We´ll see what´s going on in the market then. I have a large enough stash for at least 2...

Key words: ¨Everyone is free to make their own decisions.¨ So you have been on Bitog since 2011 and have not seen that there are members here who are very thrifty? It´s common here. And it´s important to them. Just like it isn´t much to you, it isn´t a significant amount to me. But I...

Downsides are in the eye of the beholder. If someone has been running engines for years on a value oil, such as Quaker State or Kirkland, the downside might be the cost. For my situation, sure, there´s really not much of one because the cost is very close to what I have typically run. I...

And why would or should someone feel badly about running what you say is ¨good oil?¨ Because the Valvoline Restore and Protect fans say they should? LOL, I suppose all the folks around here with hundreds of thousands of miles on their engines with cheap oil, like Supertech, should be...

That trend matches what appears to be a trend in less PAO in the formulation, at least with the 0W20, to which I have paid more attention.

Wow, sloppy glue. I guess I´d rather see too much than not enough. Fram has jumped the shark, for sure, with the cans. The cartridge version for the Pentastar still looks of high quality, but man, these cans. Is the Force the equivalent of the TG? I have an Extra Guard in my stash...