Originally Posted By: Ducked
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My "CNPC is the mainland China equivalent. No experience with their stuff and don't want any." was political predjudice and nothing to do with their oil quality, which is probably fine.
Likewise the CPC stuff here seems to be fine, but there are quite a lot of unknown private labels here (don't know if that applies to mainland China but I'd doubt it) that I'd have reservations about.
Might be changing. I was in Carrefour, a French supermarket chain big in Taiwan, where I usually buy my oil, and all the unknown brands had disappeared. Nearly all big name foreign stuff, with CPC the only local label, (and the only one to still be offering SJ, so the only one I would buy).
This probably reflects the pro-foreign bias of the local consumer, but won't necessarily reflect the total market. This oil would be for top-up only since very few Taiwanese will do thier own oil changes. Bulk sales to garages, fleets and farmers are probably CPC's main market, but (apart from CPC filling stations) I dunno where that stuff is sold.
I'll try RT-MART next time I'm in town. They might have a more oddball selection.