Delvac and other Mobil products were available at Husky service stations up until Chevrontexaco took them over.
Now I see Chevron products at the Husky truck stops.
Wal-Mart has the Delvac 5W40 priced at $35.00 for 4 litres or about $8.50Cdn/litre or about 6 bucks USD/US qt.
I can buy Peto-Cannuck, Chevron, and Shell group III 5W40 for half of that price, and Esso/Exxon PAO 0W40 for about $5.00/litre.
It appears that Husky, Shell, Petro Canada, Chevron and the Co-ops have the west sowed-up.
There seems a lack of Esso truck stops that would be a part of Exxon/Mobil and their products.
The truckers and equipment owners stick to the lubricants sold at the card locks and fuel suppliers.
It is very likely that Esso's XD-3 is the same product as Exxon's, and with the recient merge/purchase of Mobil, well, the lines get fuzzy.
I would imagine the airline industry is going through the same lubricant supply line changes with the Exxon/BP Air thing.
Delvac had a kick@$$ 15W50, gone, so is Esso's passenger car 5W50 along with Chevron's 15W50.
The 5W40s seem to be taking over, but there seems to be a lack of passenger car marketing in that grade.
I think maybe YZ150F hit the nail on the head with his comment in the 150th German Castrol thread.
this is not his quote, but how I understood his post...
The fringe market is not very large, and we don't represent enough sales figures to waste time and advertising dollars on.
All you have to do if you doubt it, is stand around a gas station for an hour.
10W30 then 5W30, 15W40 for the trucks, and SAE 40 CF-2 for the noise makers and HD equipment.
I would bet that all the other grades make up about 10% or less of the total engine oil sales.
Personally I'm saving synthetics for the winter, and when I run out I'll try 5W20.
Heck, we used straight 10W 40 years ago without wear problems.
My father had Manitoba Government cars with over 200,000 miles on them in the 70's using 10W in the winter and 30W in the summer.
Why those grades? Because thats what the maintanance shops had for everyone.
Cars, trucks, snow plows, graders, ect
What do we have on the railroad?
SAE 40 in the locomotives, SAE 30 in practicly everything else.
Sometimes 10W30 or 15W40 slips by, then everyone steals it and takes it home.
None of that 5W40 hoopla.