Cheap lubricants... As part of my industrial engineering degree, the class went to X. X is one of the largest oil distributors in the US. They have bottling facilities all over. The one I'm talking about is in Shreveport, LA but I'm going to call it X here. As a senior project, we were charged with looking at the coolant line and seeing if there were any improvements we could see in a single visit. I actually made a good observation right away. They'd fill 4 1 gallon jugs with antifreeze, the machine would put them in a box. The box would go up the line on rollers (downhill, actually) till it got to the taping machine. It would get taped shut, then it rolled to the scale. If the box was light, the machine pushed it to the side where someone would cut the box open, lift each bottle, pull out the light one, replace it, carry the box back to the taper (it was next to it), and send it back through. I asked a simple enough question. "Why don't you weigh it before you tape it shut? It'll save you tape and time." Duh. Anyway, back to my purpose. I watched company X's top tier oil come down the line... The bottles would be scanned automatically, filled, and capped. Following the top tier oil came Racetrack oil. This is the stuff that was about 1/5 the cost and literally the cheapest oil you could find anywhere. They changed the bottle and the cap color. That was it. Same oil. Point is, just because it's more expensive doesn't mean it's better. If they have the same circle seal information, chemically, it's the same oil. Synthetics are different than regular oil, I get that. It's the impurities in the oil and the rate that it breaks down that makes the difference (sheer, I believe). For the MOST part, oil is oil... gas is gas... and ethanol.. well, it sucks. Stir, stir...