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What's so special about gear oil that it's 70 bucks a gallon?
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What's so special about gear oil that it's 70 bucks a gallon?
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>>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 -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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