Stopped last evening to buy some PP 5w30 at Advance Auto in Bolingbrook, Illinois and the PP was $7.38 a quart while the Mobil-1 was $6.99. I bought neither and will go to Wal-Mart instead but I was kind of shocked as PP was always cheaper them M-1 which was one of its selling points.
PP now higher than M-1 at Advance Auto?
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Pennzoil's got to pay for all those TV commercials.
I guess I will switch back to Mobil 1 when I run out of the PP stash I have. In fact I will be buying 5qts Mobil 1 and the Mobil 1 filter that AAP has on sale for $29.99.
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Woah!!! Over $7/quart for PP? Wal-Mart has it for about half (still $19/5 quarts at mine).
I won't even do an entire oil change if it's over $7 bucks.
$5 for me, good thing I bought so much closeout oil.
It's still cheap here at my Chinamart.
I try not to buy much there, but I am a weak man for cheap oil.
I try not to buy much there, but I am a weak man for cheap oil.
This could just be AA trying to move some M1 or make more profit on the PP they are selling - it may not have anything to do with Pennzoil's wholesale cost the the retailer.
Originally Posted By: demarpaint
In fact I will be buying 5qts Mobil 1 and the Mobil 1 filter that AAP has on sale for $29.99.
Stopped into a nearby AAP earlier today and they had a sign stating that due to a national backorder on M1, you could substitute any other synthetic oil and still get the same price. Interestingly, they had plenty of M1 on the shelves...
In fact I will be buying 5qts Mobil 1 and the Mobil 1 filter that AAP has on sale for $29.99.
Stopped into a nearby AAP earlier today and they had a sign stating that due to a national backorder on M1, you could substitute any other synthetic oil and still get the same price. Interestingly, they had plenty of M1 on the shelves...
Why just an hour or so ago at lunch, I stopped at the super-duper-Walmart that's a few miles down the road from my office in Milton FL. I picked up a pair of 5qt jugs of 5w-20 PP at the "new" increased price of $23 per. I regret that I failed to stock up on the jugs at $19, but they're still a good deal, IMO, at the new price. This works out to a tad over $4.50 per quart for a top tier synthetic that withstands fuel dilution very well. My son will be using the rest of my still-large GC stash in the Prius, and my wife and I will use the 5w-20 in the TCH and Avalon unless and until the PP price approaches the M1 0w-20 (0w-20 being "preferred" for the TCH).
NOTE: I'm going to post this same comment in the other PP price thread that's running parallel to this one..
NOTE: I'm going to post this same comment in the other PP price thread that's running parallel to this one..
EK, the regret you should harbor is not stocking up, and I mean, SERIOUSLY stocking up on PP when it was 4.00/quart and 2 for the price of one. Had you done that, you'd be one loaded Marine! For a fact, I'm one loaded Sailor!
How are ya, anyway, Marine? This A-6-fixin squid has been a little scarce lately.
How are ya, anyway, Marine? This A-6-fixin squid has been a little scarce lately.
Yeah, well, I'll be looking for a 40% reduction in the price of motor oil any day now. Same for gasoline. These oil companies and their cohorts overseas and at home really are piggy. Yeah, yeah, market, market. Market my a$$, we're defending their raw supply with our kids and military expenditures. Crude is a public utility. When the crude went up, product had to go up. Now that crude is down, time for prices on finished product to go down.
I'll go hold my breath waiting for that to happen. And spare me the hurricane excuses. It's this stuff that brings out the Yes We Can hopefuls.
I'll go hold my breath waiting for that to happen. And spare me the hurricane excuses. It's this stuff that brings out the Yes We Can hopefuls.
Originally Posted By: toocrazy2yoo
EK, the regret you should harbor is not stocking up, and I mean, SERIOUSLY stocking up on PP when it was 4.00/quart and 2 for the price of one. Had you done that, you'd be one loaded Marine! For a fact, I'm one loaded Sailor!
How are ya, anyway, Marine? This A-6-fixin squid has been a little scarce lately.
Hangin' in there (old one-time EA-6 flyin' Marines always do...)! Don't feel too bad for me -- I had already grabbed the last two jugs of PP 5w-20 from the WM closer to my home last weekend. So that makes four jugs (or 20 qts total). Not anything like my GC stash at its peak, but on our way...
EK, the regret you should harbor is not stocking up, and I mean, SERIOUSLY stocking up on PP when it was 4.00/quart and 2 for the price of one. Had you done that, you'd be one loaded Marine! For a fact, I'm one loaded Sailor!
How are ya, anyway, Marine? This A-6-fixin squid has been a little scarce lately.
Hangin' in there (old one-time EA-6 flyin' Marines always do...)! Don't feel too bad for me -- I had already grabbed the last two jugs of PP 5w-20 from the WM closer to my home last weekend. So that makes four jugs (or 20 qts total). Not anything like my GC stash at its peak, but on our way...
ekpolk,
It must be a pretty awesome feeling getting shot off an aircraft carrier, playing war games, do a mid-air refueling and then having to catch a wire when you return to the carrier.
You shoulda seen it (and felt it and smelt it) from my perspective. They goose the thing to full throttle and sit there, they send us around the plane to wiggle the pods, the flaps and belly tanks (or bombs or missles on other types of planes), then scramble out from under the thing, this huge, relative to the size of a man, shrieking beast (the engines in an EA6/A6 being especially penetrating at military power), drop to one knee and grab a tie down star. Pilot salutes, hits the anti-collision lights, cat-guy drops his biscuit-hook to the deck pointing north, and away it goes, spewing forth foul fumes and heat all over us. Ya look up the deck, and as it always does, the plane drops below the level of the deck a little or a lot before it climbs out. All effects seem to multiply at night, and landings at night and in bad weather are multiples of THAT. It's unimaginable if you haven't been out there on a deck to see it.
Doods like EK, folks, I dunno how they WALK with the balls they're sportin.
Doods like EK, folks, I dunno how they WALK with the balls they're sportin.
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