I keep hearing and reading people say "use name brand oil and you should be fine" so what are the name brand oils other than obvious ones(pennzoil, mobil, amsoil, castrol, valvoline and red line)?

There all great oils, so yes, they are name brand.

for other questions about oil in your car please use the sticky in PCMO

Any API cert. SM or SL oil, regardless of brand, will serve you well.

One of my Jeeps is running Stop&Shop (Grocery store) generic 5W30. It's made by Warren Unilube.

I don't consider Amsoil or Redline to be name brand oil perse because there more of a botique oil. But anything at Walmart but Supertech or Accel.

And the house brand...(napa, autozone..)

any others? please list them

Advanced Lubrication Specialties, Inc:

Advantage
Advantage 5000
Getty (some?)
Lukoil (some?)
CRL
L&D Superior
Sunoco

Amalie:

Acme Ultraguard
Amalie
American Eagle Super Duty
American XT Premium
Crown Super Turbo
Elixir
Federated
Flash Foods
Foodtown
Guard Heavy Duty
“Heavy Duty”
Imperial
Millennium
Pro High Performance Choice
Pronto Supreme
Rallye
RPX Turbo Blend
Shop Rite Premium
Sprint 500 Premium
Super Turbo Xcel
U.S. Lubricants Super Heavy Duty
Value Tech
VIP
Xcel
XLO

Ashland:

Kubota Tractor Oils
Napa
Valvoline
BP/Castrol

Arco:

Powertech Super
Drydene

Assuron

Chevron/Texaco[list](all products seem to carry the Chevron or Texaco logos...so there is no confusion here as to what they make)

CHS Inc:

Auto Gold
Maxtron
Super 12m
Superlube
Superol
Viking

Citgo:

Mystic

Conoco-Phillips:

CircleK
Kendall
Motorcraft
Union 76
Phillips 66

Cross Oil Refining:

Gard
Gardfleet
Pure-Flo
Xtreme

David Weber Oil Co.:

Gibraltar
Powerflo

ExxonMobil:

SuperTech (Walmart; some)
ESSO
CAT Diesel (EM Mexico)
Lubricante Carrefour (EM Mexico)
Mopar (EM Mexico; some)
Motorcraft (EM Mexico; some)
Toyota Genuine(EM Mexico)
Nissan (EM Mexico)
Tech 2000 (EM Mexico)

FL Viscosity Oil Co.:

Case Tractor/Ag
New Holland Tractor/Ag

McCollister & Co.:

Archer
Motorlast
United
United/Hyde

Omni Specialty Packaging, Inc.:
(may not be the actual refiner)

Dutch
Excell
Nuvo
O’Reillys
Parts Master
Pure Guard

Pinnacle Oil Co.:

Admiral
Allfleet
Allsup’s
Casey’s
Certified
Cogo’s
Duke
Favorite Markets
Fire Star
Fleet Pro
Gas America
Gas City
Kum & Go
Love’s
National
On Your Way
Sheetz
Steel City
Thorton’s
True North

[b]Safety Kleen (including Canada):

America’s Choice
Autoprix
Canada’s Choice
Checkered Flag
Classic
Fast Trac
Finish Line
Formula A
Moto Prix
Performance Plus
Premium I
Safety-Kleen

Sinclair Oil Co.:

Arctic Fire
Dura Tec
Sinclair Supreme

SOPUS (Shell)[list][*]Quaker State[*]Pennzoil[*]Wolf’s Head

J.D. Streett & Co.:

Streett

STP

Unilab


Warren Oil/Coastal/Unilube[list][*]4 Brothers[*]Advance Auto[*]All Star Express[*]Allstar[*]American XT[*]Appco[*]Bradley Plus[*]Carolina Petro[*]Coastal[*]Do-It-Best[*]Duplex[*]Enmark[*]Express[*]Fill-Ups[*]Fred's[*]Gas N Go[*]Genuine[*]Halco[*]Handy Way[*]Itasca Outdoors[*]Jr Food[*]Kohler[*]Krasdale[*]Lubriguard[*]Performance Engineered[*]Price Wise[*]Quality Plus[*]Quality Supreme[*]Red Apple[*]Savers Choice[*]Savings Plus[*]Saxon[*]Saxon Gold[*]Sentry[*]Service Pro[*]Shurtech[*]Trac[*]Valucraft (Autozone)[*]Warren

Warren Performance Products (WPP):

Accel
Kum & Go Super Premium
Mag 1
Oasis Market
Pilot Premium
ProLine (Pep Boys)
Spectrum Plus (Sears)
Supertech (Walmart; some)
Traveller (Tractor Supply)

There you go. Brands listed by their makers also.

I hope to heck you did'nt write all that out......thats hardcore.

According to that list, Ashland makes Castrol?

I missed a space and :

Thanks for pointing it out.

Ashland does not make Castrol/BP.

Also, this is not my list. It's a list made a long time ago.

Proline isn't made by warren, it's made by Conoco Philips.
This is evidenced by the MSDS.
Here is the link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=0fd1dbbcac08fc91e7c82ed4b8f0c380b4cbcc51bf854be1f85d402b9fc3640c

It reads responsible party: Conoco Philips

The list is 3 years old.
Please feel free to correct it.

I am taking all changes into account.