Green Earth Technologies - Biodegradable Motor Oil

[NachshonR]

If there's an Honest-1 Auto near you (Bridgeville PA), say you'll take a gander at the G-Oil they got there. And you can check out some of their nanotechnologied/green appearance products at 100 of the 600 Pep Boys nationwide if you wanna give the company a test run first.

[Christ]

I was actually considering trying them out anyway... the price difference isn't that bad. It's enough to bother me, but that doesn't really make a difference, because almost everything bothers me some way or another. I'm very botherable. (not a word.)

Of course, given the area that I'm in, it's highly unlikely that I'll find their products anywhere near me, and I'll likely still get stuck paying shipping charges for them.

[Lazarus]

Originally Posted by jonathan150cc

Anyone heard of this stuff?

Green Earth Technologies

It's made from left over chopped up cows and is supposedly biodegradable.
My question is:
How can anything, once removed from an engine and containing various types of nasty/toxic metals, be bio-degradable? I mean, you can't just throw this stuff in the yard. You'd still have to recycle it, right?

Thanks for posting this. I'll give it a go on the next oil change.

[Wonderboy]

Something that encourages or perpetuates this country's highly mechanized and centralized agribusiness is not in the books for me. I don't care if this oil were 100% proven to be 3 times better than full synthetic oil - Consideration must be made for how much energy went into producing the animal fat. There's no way we could come out on top with this - the farm industry causes way more problems than it solves, and greenwashing bull**** like this can only make things worse for us, better for agribusiness. I am willing to elaborate, but please read up on it or watch "Farm, Inc." or something. Pushing for this oil is as foolish as pushing for ethanol. Yes, we're still getting raped by oil, but I prefer to be raped by as few industries as possible. I still have to figure out how I feel about that recycled oil... +they don't have any 0W

[Christ]

Originally Posted by Wonderboy

Something that encourages or perpetuates this country's highly mechanized and centralized agribusiness is not in the books for me. I don't care if this oil were 100% proven to be 3 times better than full synthetic oil - Consideration must be made for how much energy went into producing the animal fat. There's no way we could come out on top with this - the farm industry causes way more problems than it solves, and greenwashing bull**** like this can only make things worse for us, better for agribusiness. I am willing to elaborate, but please read up on it or watch "Farm, Inc." or something. Pushing for this oil is as foolish as pushing for ethanol. Yes, we're still getting raped by oil, but I prefer to be raped by as few industries as possible. I still have to figure out how I feel about that recycled oil... +they don't have any 0W

Thank you for noticing that... I hadn't. That means I'm not going to use them. I use 0w exclusively, which is the sole reason I even started using synthetic oils in the first place. Although I've been having trouble getting 0W20 lately...

The only way I'm gonna have a use for these oils, in that case, is in off-road equipment... most of those get whatever's cheap, and again, $7 per bottle ain't gonna cut it.

[Lazarus]

Originally Posted by Wonderboy

Something that encourages or perpetuates this country's highly mechanized and centralized agribusiness is not in the books for me. I don't care if this oil were 100% proven to be 3 times better than full synthetic oil - Consideration must be made for how much energy went into producing the animal fat. There's no way we could come out on top with this - the farm industry causes way more problems than it solves, and greenwashing bull**** like this can only make things worse for us, better for agribusiness. I am willing to elaborate, but please read up on it or watch "Farm, Inc." or something. Pushing for this oil is as foolish as pushing for ethanol. Yes, we're still getting raped by oil, but I prefer to be raped by as few industries as possible. I still have to figure out how I feel about that recycled oil... +they don't have any 0W

It appears they're not raising cattle for the fat. They are recycling what is already being made. Pick your poison. From the website.

Green Earth’s demand for domestic animal fat is kept well below the supply available in the United States so that price increases will not be driven by supply side shortages. The U.S. department of Agriculture reports that the United States alone produces 9.6 billion pounds of beef, pork and chicken fat. Green Earth Technologies only needs a fraction of the total fat to manufacture enough G-OIL base biological material for a double digit market share of the nation’s oil and lubrication market. The healthy supply and demand relationship between Green Earth and the material that sustains its business is in drastic contrast to the competition for the limited supply of corn oil in the food supply vs. ethanol debate.

And

the Company has completed the development of the following products, all of which are currently undergoing independent, third-party testing with release anticipated in mid-2008: Motor Oil grades 10W-30 and 10W- 40, 5W-20, 5W-30 and 0W-20, SAE 30, NMMA Marine 2-cycle, Hydraulic Fluids grades AW 32, AW 46 and AW 68.

[Christ]

Green Earth Technologies

No 0W available.

Although I suppose I might be willing to try out some of the 2 cycle oil at some point, if the price is comparable to the stuff I'm already using.

[Christ]

Looks like I can get a case of them for ~$40... might be worth a shot.

Amazon.com: 24 each: G-Oil No Smoke 2 Cycle Green Engine Oil (1130): Automotive

And if it makes my chainsaw smell like a porterhouse, I got nothing against that, either.

[NachshonR]

Not only does G-oil come from already available unused fats, but the amount Green Earth Technologies needs is a _small percentage_ of what's already left over from not only agri-business; they've contracted with several sources in the past.

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