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WRONG!!!!
Amsoil was not the first synthetic company but some use that line to boost their image. Synthetic was actually developed by the Germans in WW2 and actually produced by Motul and Synsol. Additionally Chevron produced the first commercially available synthetic in the 60's.
I'm not here to bash Amsoil but tell me guys, if that stuff is sooooo great, why isn't it the choice of factory fill synthetics for vehicle manufacturers? Snake oil.
Amsoil was not the first synthetic company but some use that line to boost their image. Synthetic was actually developed by the Germans in WW2 and actually produced by Motul and Synsol. Additionally Chevron produced the first commercially available synthetic in the 60's.
I'm not here to bash Amsoil but tell me guys, if that stuff is sooooo great, why isn't it the choice of factory fill synthetics for vehicle manufacturers? Snake oil.
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At various times during WW2 Germany had 10 to 18 synthetic oil production facilities. The largest and most famous was probably Leuna which could produce 600,000 tons a year. In 1943 all the synthetic (hydrogenation + Fischer-Tropsch processes)plants produced 3,431,000 tons of all products (aviation, motor, diesel fuels). Hungary and Rumania supplied another 2,000,000 tons and Germany and Austrian fields about another 1.5 million. In addition, there was another group of various synthetic applications that produced 1.7 million tons ( alcohol, benzol, coal-tar, etc.). As a base line reference in 1938 the entire German economy and military used 7.5 million tons of oil.
It thus appears based on 1938 consumption that Germany did not have a serious oil problem (because the civilian sector's use of oil could be & was severely restricted to provide more for the military. For example in 1943 the civilian economy was allowed only 300,000 tons of motor oil versus 3 million in 1938. In addition many civilian vehicles were converted to a kind of propane fuel in all occupied Europe ).
The synthetic process was expensive but it relied on coal a commodity Germany had in abundance.
It thus appears based on 1938 consumption that Germany did not have a serious oil problem (because the civilian sector's use of oil could be & was severely restricted to provide more for the military. For example in 1943 the civilian economy was allowed only 300,000 tons of motor oil versus 3 million in 1938. In addition many civilian vehicles were converted to a kind of propane fuel in all occupied Europe ).
The synthetic process was expensive but it relied on coal a commodity Germany had in abundance.
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No! They were just the first in the US to get API certification. Thus the claim to be the "first synthetic in the US". Obviously, they were not the first in the world to make synthetics, just the first to get API certification.
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True! But poop it may be. If it was the first to be certified, then it can legally claim to be the first poop.
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Guys! Apparently Amsoil had one of their stock get out of the pasture and I hit a unicorn on the way home from work yesterday. Thankfully I grazed it but had to dispatch it with my 44 magnum due to life threatening injuries.
Thankfully I managed to get almost 8 quarts of tears in old milk jugs, dirty McDonalds cups and three empty water bottles before it passed. Amsoil called last night and offered me $10,500,000 for all of it...told them I'd think about it as a ploy to get more out of them. Went to check my new found unicorn tear stock this morning...all evaporated into thin air! :-(
Now I know you all are thinking this is just some BS line but really guys, I had some of that stuff in assorted containers and it was great looking stuff. Almost slipped on it on the highway - slicker than ice at -50 below! Now I'm REALLY sold on that Amsoil stuff!
Thankfully I managed to get almost 8 quarts of tears in old milk jugs, dirty McDonalds cups and three empty water bottles before it passed. Amsoil called last night and offered me $10,500,000 for all of it...told them I'd think about it as a ploy to get more out of them. Went to check my new found unicorn tear stock this morning...all evaporated into thin air! :-(
Now I know you all are thinking this is just some BS line but really guys, I had some of that stuff in assorted containers and it was great looking stuff. Almost slipped on it on the highway - slicker than ice at -50 below! Now I'm REALLY sold on that Amsoil stuff!
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Yup - that is about what I'm paying for changes at the dealership when I buy them 4 at a time.