RE: synth vs. Sino Manufacture Techniques

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	From:	Sheffield Corey [SMTP:SHEF@omdc.gso.uri.edu]
	Sent:	Wednesday, August 12, 1998 6:01 PM
	To:	dougq
	Cc:	QUATTRO
	Subject:	Re: synth vs. Sino Manufacture Techniques

	>> 	IF you watn a Synth vs Dino debate on benefits to the engine
then
	>> LEave.  REad no further.  THis is a question about environmental
Benefits.
	>
	>Don't know the answer, but back about '75, there was at least one
company
	>trying to market a motor oil made from soybeans, which was 100% 
	>biodegradeable. It was about $10.00 per quart in 1975, so it's
clear why
	>it caught on...
	>
	>No disrespect to our Green Friends in Europe, but no one over there
as
	>mentioned using any biodegradeable oil, so I can only guess that
either
	>cost killed these oils, or, they did not offer sufficient
protection to the
	>engine, in which case, the engine would end up polluting worse than
if
	>it ran dino or synth.


	Hi Doug et al,

		I'm a geophysicist, not a chemist; but a few years back I
asked an
	Amsoil sales type how THEIR product was made as he was running on
about the
	Mobil 1 of the time having a 25% petroleum based carrier so it
wasn't 100%
	synthetic. He claimed that they (Amsoil) mixed sulfuric acid with
ethyl alcohol
	to create their base stock and then buffered it back to a neutral pH
and added
	their additive package. I can't prove that this is true and maybe it
was methyl
	alcohol...I prefer to think that my car is lubed with ethyl...like
its owner...
	on occasion. Notice that I didn't say driver:-) So, if this is true
you do not
	need a deep hole in Mother Nature to get your base stock from; just
some nasty
	ol' sulfuric acid(we've got huge piles of sulfur layin' around make
acid runoff
	in Louisianna), so using that stuff up is good. And some alcohol;
we've got lots
	of surplus corn; and, every drop of the stuff that goes towards our
cars is a
	drop that can't be drunk...hopefully, and some would say that that
is good too.
	And that is why synthetic oil has environmental benefits:-)

	HTH,

	Shef

	P.S. Where's our resident retired chemist; was it Doc Meyers???

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