Walmart Oil Aisle Today

With the differences between stock at locations it makes me think just hit the auto part store instead.
I'll always check their inventory through the website. It's always been pretty accurate and it will even tell you "low stock" and in that case, I look for something else or skip going. Luckily, I've never had an oil change emergency. 😂
The cost difference has become negligible too.
Not to me. O'Reilly (I can walk there) is $42 for Castrol Edge 5W-30 and WM is still $32. In my experience, WM is almost always $10 cheaper across the board for 5-quart bottles of name-brand oil.
 
I'll always check their inventory through the website. It's always been pretty accurate and it will even tell you "low stock" and in that case, I look for something else or skip going. Luckily, I've never had an oil change emergency. 😂

Not to me. O'Reilly (I can walk there) is $42 for Castrol Edge 5W-30 and WM is still $32. In my experience, WM is almost always $10 cheaper across the board for 5-quart bottles of name-brand oil.
In my area. But AZ has a $15 rebate right now.

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Everything is fine and nothing to worry about at all. All the drama and speculation over the last few months has been unfounded. A couple of dollars increase for a few quarts of oil is hardly news worthy.
It’s a little more than a few dollars. We’ve had a slew of formula changes with many oils loosing Dexos approval. Many of these oils had only two things going for them, cost and Dexos.

My Walmarts are pretty slim pickings currently. The worst of the base oil shortage is still to come.
 
A year from now several companies will have new US GIII and GTL plants operating. Newly completed/expanded Pipelines bypassing Hormuz will be operational. Chicken little will be sliding in synthetic motor oil and complaining the price didn't come back down. The only real shortage now is cheap deals.
 
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Everything is fine and nothing to worry about at all. All the drama and speculation over the last few months has been unfounded. A couple of dollars increase for a few quarts of oil is hardly news worthy.
Except the world runs on oil. Everything you buy is delivered on a vehicle that uses oil. Costs are up across the board. Who ultimately pays for this? I'll give you 1 guess...
 
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Except the world runs on oil. Everything you buy is delivered on a vehicle that uses oil. Costs are up across the board. Who ultimately pays for this? I'll give you 1 guess...
It's been like this for over 100 years so your validation is irrelevant. These small spikes we see are very short lived and nothing to panic over.

We had this same panic in 2008 when the barrel of oil hit almost $150.00. Today it's about half that and yet the fear mongering still exists.
 
It's been like this for over 100 years so your validation is irrelevant. These small spikes we see are very short lived and nothing to panic over.

We had this same panic in 2008 when the barrel of oil hit almost $150.00. Today it's about half that and yet the fear mongering still exists.
It's not
Just
About
Price

Say it with me...
 
I know the news; US is the number one producer of crude and exporter of refined products. There is plenty of oil; the missing Dexos on the label is the noticeable issue; all the other qualifications are present.
How could a premium bottle of Big Oil like Pennzoil Platinum not be dexos suitable ?

My understanding is that the issue is that we do not have refineries capable of making Group 3 base oils yet which make up most synthetic oil. Pennzoil and everyone else is buying whatever Group 3 base oil they can get from wherever. Hence the lack of Dexos certification. A lot of oils on the shelf right now have undergone reformulation.
 
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