I got to the second page and my head was spinning. Difficult structure and colors there..
What Mickey wasn't challenged on (unless someone made the point in the later pages), is that Mobil took Castrol to the mat in an attempt to deny GroupIII is "synthetic". Castrol's argument, rightly or wrongly, was that their GroupIII is as good as Mobil's PAO, and thus can be labled synthetic based on the extended processes that bring dino up to GroupIII. Have I got the gist of the dispute?
How far did this go, the Supreme Court? Several layers deep into the Federal Appeals process? Can't remember, but to a layman such as myself, Mobil is free to fall back to GroupIII. But don't sit and say, after all the lawsuits regarding composition of a bonafide "synthetic", that we buy performance, not formula. THEY, Mobil, argued formula over performance for years, and now, here they are, playing games, doing the wiggle, and after all this, we STILL do not know if SuperSyn, standard-issue M1 "synthetic" is PAO, or GroupIII.
Proprietary, don't you know. It's not the product, it's not the performance. It's the weasle-wiggle, the pricing, and the non-disclosure now that it's convenient, vs. the full disclosure back during their lawsuits, when also, it was convenient. I was a life-long user of M1 and my Exxon card until the weasling started.
Now? I wouldn't buy a thimble of windshield washer from them let alone oil or gasoline. They won't notice, they don't care, but I do, and that's enough for me.. Scroo em..
