Rural King ?
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Topic: Rural King ?
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Subject: Rural King ?
Date Posted: 22 Aug 2021 at 7:27pm
Did RK get sold ? I was looking at their "house brand" of motor oil tonight online and see that it's under a different name and A LOT more expensive  . Thanks
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Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2021 at 10:17am
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Thank your hero Uncle Joe. They ran out of oil pumped cheap when the evil orange man ( that was your name for Trump right ?) was in charge. Hope you enjoy higher prices. Inflation * from all the government spending is coming. * none political information from Eco 101
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Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2021 at 12:55pm
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Freedguy, check out Warren Oil Co., they are the makers of LubriGuard. Also Pinnacle Resources, they are a ‘contract packager’. My employer uses both as a supplier. ------------- I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science. |
Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2021 at 3:02pm
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Nearly all petroleum lubricants are in short supply right now. Refiners are claiming a shortage of the additives that are blended into the base stocks. ------------- I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science. |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2021 at 3:24pm
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I just got a couple full synthetic one gallon jugs of Mobil 1 for 29.99. There is a mail in rebate. I will get $10 back for each one, net price $19.99. I'm happy with that price. ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2021 at 4:05pm
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For Mobil 1, that is a good price. ------------- I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science. |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2021 at 6:10pm
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You do realize "Full Synthetic" oils are produced from Petroleum stocks? Look that up!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_oil" rel="nofollow - Synthetic oil - Wikipedia
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Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2021 at 6:50pm
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Yes, I know that. ------------- I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science. |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2021 at 11:45pm
| One of the oil schools I went through back in the 1970's was put on by South West Grease and Oil in Omaha Neb. They were bottling 5 different brands of oil that day. It all came from the same base stock outta the same tank. They were bottling Archer oil, F/S motor oil, Sears oil, and 2 other brands that I can't remember. Only the additives were different. They were just coming out with synthetic oils at that time. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2021 at 6:40am
| "Only the additives were different". Yeah, and oh what a difference the additives make! |
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2021 at 7:01pm
How/WHY did the current office holder change the NAME of an "IN HOUSE" brand of a stores oil ?? !!! "HE" is SPRAY TANNER BTW
  , too fat to lay out in public for a "REAL" tan  !!! |
Ray54 wrote:Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2021 at 7:02pm
Thanks. Harvest King was not shown on the RK site, but another off-brand was
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Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2021 at 8:43pm
Wife did that for me last week for a couple of gallons of Mobil 1. She's a keeper. ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: cwhit
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2021 at 8:50pm
| Just saw yesterday that the owner of the Rural King stores bought another 2000 acres of prime central Illinois farm ground for 15,000. Bucks per acre. Business must be good. |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2021 at 10:56am
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Freedguy good that ask questions but turn your brain on and analyze thing a bit. Rural King is going to sell the cheapest "off brand" they can get. Nobody but RK knows why they put a name on a product they sell. I only commented on price. Uncle Joe did everything possible to make petroleum products more expensive( he stopped a pipeline that was being built, the biggest example). So stock up on oil while you can it will soon cost even more. |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2021 at 11:07am
But but but in return he did open a pipeline of fentanyl and Covid. There’s that |
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2021 at 5:40pm
Can you please explain to me WHY synthetic is so much better than conventional ? The current Ford product I run burns (??) 2 qts/3500 miles, buying big $$ synthetic for top-offs is pretty pricy IMO
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Posted By: JLS retired
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2021 at 11:04am
| what is the difference between synthetic and conventional, ran mobile conventional for years, good oil. Mobile 1 in newer dually, I can't tell much difference. oh; the pipeline was part of the price jump, the big deal was the canceling of leases on Fed lands |