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I'm posting for fun because I'm bored.
As good a reason as any, I suppose.
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With nearly the same level of doubt as there is behind yours, I could presume that Tom either lied or mis-analyzed the G.C. tests. My point is being innocent until proven guilty should be applied here as it is in the courtroom. How about dropping the presumptions and buying based on performance and price?
There’s nothing inherently wrong in what you say here. OTOH, I believe that the presumption of innocence exists to protect relatively power-deprived individual citizens against the power and might of the state. If the authorities want to lock you up,
they must prove every element of every charge against you, beyond any reasonable doubt. XOM, as a corporate citizen, is certainly entitled to that presumption when it faces criminal charges. But it’s not. We’re just consumers who are understandably upset, since it now appears (confirmation pending...) that M1 might no longer be the product that XOM had promised and delivered for so long. Many of us asked XOM, expecting a clarification that there was no G-III in M1, since we clearly remember all the years when they
did readily share such info. Now, with our tentative lab work, coupled with Mobil’s sudden case of mealy-mouth suggest to me that the most probably conclusion is – G-III.
I also agree about the “buy factor”. M1 seems to be good stuff, at least by our UOAs, but when you factor in the price (and especially if you add in a content-doubt factor), it’s hard to see it as a first pick.
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Apparently I could make a lot of money selling motor oils to BITOG members as long as it used only PAO/Group 5, I told people that, and the cost was reasonable. Never mind that it might perform worse than dino oils.
Well, you wouldn’t make much selling that to me anyway. I can handle a high-performance G-III oil (or even perhaps a dino...), if the performance-per-price was right (and I had some respect for the oil company).
