Originally Posted By: NMBurb02
However, the article makes it seem that the resulting per-quart fee is less than the old $0.09 figure, unless each oil marketer is selling only 33,333 quarts of Dexos oil ($4,000 per-company fee quoted in the article, less the old $1,000 flat fee, divided by 0.09).
Yep, we just don't know what the fee is. The 9 cents per quart figure was thrown about, yet the article is a full five years old, so maybe it works out to ~about that much(???). My back-of-the-envelope calculations are very rough.
The whole pay-to-play racket is wrong. Most of the dexos1 tests, above and beyond SN-GF5, are taken from ISO, ACEA, ASTM, etc., the standards organizations, which already get their money from the industry as a whole to create the tests. dexos is a tax upon a tax.