Originally Posted By: Quest
while I'm not a fully-committed environmentalist (used to tree-hugging), my effort has shifted elsewhere these days and mainly towards the direction of minimising carbon footprint per living human being (during their lifetime of activities) and one of the things that I practice/preach is to ensure that oils, lubricants, etc. gets recycled and re-processed properly (instead of some back-end quicklubers/collection facilities dumping it in the storm drain. No matter how "green" these GreenEArthTech guys would try to portray their products to be "green", they still either (a) purchase their base lubricants from major/national oil refineries which still pollutes during the cracking/refining process, and (b)purchase additives from national suppliers such as Lubrizol, etc. and get a knowledgeable blender to blend the oil, or (c) re-badge some oils to their own brand and call the day.
No matter how you dice it: truth is, oil is still a dirty word and in no way they can minimise their footprint and call themselves green. We are all polluters during our living on earth.
Q.
Also: because of scale of production, getting things like ester, etc. from non national suppliers usually ended up costing magnitudes more due to the scale of purchasing, and guess they would have no choice but to pass that onto customers while bearing the name "green"?!
Exactly oil is oil even if it has green written on it or not. Like myself I am trying to being as green as possible with the car products I purchase and for me thats making sure all of the waste that leaves my car(oil, tranny fluid,coolant, battery...ect) is properly taken care of at the end of it life cycle. I wish more people would recycle more car producst at the end instead of throwing batteries in the trash or seeing people leaving it all over the parking lot outside the local auto parts store.
