> wrote:
>>This is good but... what does "synthetic" mean? A lot of the oils sold as
>>"synthetic" in the US are not in fact made from synthetic base oils at all,
>>just very highly purified ones.
>>
> Don't know about the USA - but generally we get the same product in
>Canada - and anything advertized as synthetic IS synthetic - but there
>are several ways to synthesize a lubricant - including from
>feed-stocks derived from petroleum - such as natural gas.

Yes, your labelling laws much more closely follow the EU laws than the US
ones in that regard.
--scott


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