Originally Posted By: Trav
If Ashland had to pay they were held responsible it doesn't matter who dropped the ball a lot of damage was done. Singling out an incident like this as a reason not to buy a companies product is ludicrous.
Legislation is often written in blood, or in this case, oil. Ashland had a responsibility to make sure the tanks were safe. Apparently they didn't, so it was neglect, they paid fines and legislation was put into effect to help stop that sort of failure in the future. BP told the drillers not to perform tests and intentionally interfered with their own safeguards. Guess it's not completely different, but different enough for me to have a bias, ludicrous or not. The worst thing here is that the entire industry is involved with the same sort of shenanigans.
Enough of that....going back to the discussion of oil, I've found that most Castrol, as mentioned by an earlier poster, thickens quickly compared to other oils. That's enough for me to avoid it in favor of something else that stays in grade for a reasonable (aka longer) time. At one time I used Castrol but no more; however in all fairness I haven't tried Edge - and likely won't.