DELO 600 ADF 10W30

[bcbender]

Saw this today in my inbox.... Absolutely CRAZY! That's just highway robbery.

 

[Topzide]

That's the supply and demand pricing that they use! Buying online is not all it's cracked up too!

 

[SSchang]

That is expensive, but the bottom picture, the 10W30, is for 3 gallons.

 

[bcbender]

YEah, I know, I was buying the 3Gal boxes at costco for around $40 before.

 

[Cummins12V98]

Signature Series Max-Duty Synthetic Diesel Oil 10W-30 $37.15 Dealer Price (USD) 1 gallon jug x 3 $111.45

 

[Diesel Gunner]

YEah, I know, I was buying the 3Gal boxes at costco for around $40 before.

I retired from the industry 2.5 years ago. When I left cases of branded 3/1gal were going for $11-13/gal. DEF could be had in the case for $6.75 a gallon. These were the prices that I offered to the public here in Northern Kommiefornia. Of course, bulk purchasers enjoyed bulk pricing. Just 1 year ago the USA was an exporter of oil. Now we beg other producing countries to increase their output so that we can keep fuel and lubricant prices from going into really incredible realms. We have greater oil reserves than any country on earth, but we are being held hostage by our own government. I do not see it getting any less expensive in the near future. Diesel here is $5/gal for branded fuel. I completely expect to see it go to $8/gal and crude futures are only in the $70 range. Even when crude got to $120 back in 2012, we did not see prices spike as high as they have today. CA and WA compete for the highest fuel taxes, and I think our roads are in worse shape. Around here folks still drive 80MPH on the highway even in their EV's all the while supporting the banning of fossil fuel powered vehicles with an electrical grid that WILL NOT be able to supply the electricity for their "green" machines. No power, No travel. Get it?

Until we produce all of our fossil fuel needs and technology provides an alternative source of energy that is cheap, reliable, and does not pollute (like solar panel production (that's why it is done in China)) nothing is going to get better. We need to stop allowing the people, whose only Constitutional job is to protect us from foreign and domestic sources of terror, to usurp their power and waste their time and our money on things that most of them have no knowledge of how to manage. It looks to me that people are getting fed up with this and I have great hope that sanity will return in the midterm elections. If not, well, we can look forward to this "crisis" to continue.

I will now step down off of my soap box.

 

[SSchang]

A bit off topic, but now what do we do with these used wind turbine blades? Can't recycle them. Near Bath, NY.

 

[JR]

I saw a VOA of the 600 in 15w40 somewhere when it first came out. It seems as though it was around a 3 or 4 TBN new. Since TBN is a (small) contributor to ash buildup in the particulate they have really worked on their formula to get the TBN down by using polymeric sulfonates and ashless dispersants. According to Lubrizol this is the direction all oil manufacturers are looking at for future oil specs.

 

[Diesel Gunner]

A bit off topic, but now what do we do with these used wind turbine blades? Can't recycle them. Near Bath, NY.

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Send them back to Germany, where they probably came from, and let Hans and Fritz recycle them?