What brands of engine oil are American?
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Even CITGO is completely AMERICAN made! South American, but none-the-less American!
If you want an oil with local content and renewable content you could try RLI.
Penzoil Quakerstate looks like the best since they only import from canada primarily and a little from japan. I'd rather buy oil from those countries than from S.A. or Ven if I cant find US oil for a good price.
Is brad penn oil expensive like the RL1 or is it priced good? Im not seeing their prices on their site.
Thanks for that link rriddle3. Some good information. Middle Eastern oil is bad and most of us are suspicious as to where the money really goes. But I'm not too happy with the Venezuelan imports either considering who they elected president. Too bad we have to import anything. Maybe someday.
I havent looked at the other links on that site yet, just the first one at the top is where I saw that.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petro...data/import.xls
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petro...data/import.xls
We use way more gasoline than motor oil.
Recycled oil should count as domestically made. And if you want to really stop sending $ to terrorists, grow poppies and make your own opium.
ok, if the american oil companies arent even concerned about "keeping it american" why should you???? the patriotic game is one pushed by corporations, but only followed through by civilians. i really dont get it
what about Cenex? last time I was in their store they had a product line of oils and grease. My bud works at their refinery from time to time and it's in Montana?
Does Brad Penn Oil also employ only American workers? Does Brad Penn Oil's suppliers also use only American born workers? You never know who might be making a living at that company that could be foreign or something
You can see individual listings for Valero's refineries here: http://www.valero.com/AboutUs/Refineries/default.htm
After briefly viewing each one, I could see no mention that any of these operations was specifically limited to domestic oil and several stating they process both domestic and foreign oil. If I missed something, I'm sure someone will tell me.
Under the Paulsboro listing http://www.valero.com/AboutUs/Refineries/Paulsboro.htm I found this: "It also produces a variety of lube oil base stocks that are sold to the adjacent ExxonMobil finished lube blending and packaging plant as well as to other purchasers under the ValPar brand." I found that interesting.
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A shot in the Bulls-Eye!
From a 42 gallon barrel of crude oil, only 1/2 a gallon is used for lubricant production (includes greases).
Other major uses:
19.5 gals - Gasoline
9.2 gals - Diesel/Home Heating Oil
4.1 gals - Jet Fuel/Kerosene Distillates
http://www.jobbersworld.com/ResourceRoom/RM-HowMuch.htm
While this "quest" for a fully US produced engine oil has honorable intentions, it ultimately has little impact on foreign oil dependency.
What if Citgo was using Pennsylvania crude to make their motor oils?
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