Synthetic Blend Flag
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The company said its new products exceed requirements of the new specification but will be priced comparably to other GF-4 products. The installer market constitutes ConocoPhillips’ primary sales channel, and officials said they plan a marketing campaign to pitch the value of its products to that audience. So the new specs make it affordable for oil companys to sell you a blend at non blend prices.
Clarify please Clarify is Conoco blend as good as Schaeffer now.
MolaKule
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it's too bad we don't have an industry standard for what we can call a Blend verses it's Group content.
At least with Schaeffer's we know they have anywhere from 13 to 25% PAO with their Group II base stock blends.
At least with Schaeffer's we know they have anywhere from 13 to 25% PAO with their Group II base stock blends.
I agree . We are certain the euro blends are PAO and usually around 30 percent . Even some are group III/Ester
IMO these group II/III blends " not just Conoco's" in the USA are just better than average dino's so it's nice to see a better than average dino sold at 1.42 vs .........
Would be a long list
However gas prices rising , loaf of bread costing far more than a couple years ago 2.25 a quart mediocre oil days might be near . Just stands to reason as times change .
IMO these group II/III blends " not just Conoco's" in the USA are just better than average dino's so it's nice to see a better than average dino sold at 1.42 vs .........
Would be a long list
However gas prices rising , loaf of bread costing far more than a couple years ago 2.25 a quart mediocre oil days might be near . Just stands to reason as times change .
Will this finally mean that prices will be driven down on the group III products? ...no more $4+/qt "synthetics"? Seems to me this really undercuts Castrol's strategy to offer group III "synths" at such high prices.
Ahhh, thank you ConocoPhillips, I hope you single-handedly push PAO back on the shelves labeled as "synthetic" with names like "Pennzoil", "Quaker State" and "Catrol" for the $4-5/qt price tag.
Ahhh, thank you ConocoPhillips, I hope you single-handedly push PAO back on the shelves labeled as "synthetic" with names like "Pennzoil", "Quaker State" and "Catrol" for the $4-5/qt price tag.
Motorcraft (conoco) is the best bargain for the blends right now guys. The 5w20 and 5w30 are blends right now, and wallymart has them for 1.44 a quart. Awesome deal.
I read somewhere that the switch to GF-4 will cause a 'shortage' of Group II production...leading companies to use Group I with Group III as a 'correction fluid'.
Could we be getting excited about nothing here...a 'synthetic blend' of good oil and crappy oil that averages out to what we had before?
Could we be getting excited about nothing here...a 'synthetic blend' of good oil and crappy oil that averages out to what we had before?
MolaKule
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Actually, the group II shortage may be short lived. In LubesnGreases they stated that at least two large independant companies have switched to Group II production and have increased capacity considerably by building new facilities to produce Group II's.
And this doesn't include Shell, Chevron, or Exxon Mobil.
And this doesn't include Shell, Chevron, or Exxon Mobil.
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