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Price of motor oil

wazzabie

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I recall getting the $79-$1/ qt. oil specials just a year or two ago. What is going on with the price of motor oil? Here in the NW Shucks got bought out and the price of motor oil has gone up.

Any good deals still to be had?
 
NAPA around here was selling their brand synthetic for 2.79. That was cheaper than most of the dino. Wish I would of bought more.
 
wow, when's the last time you bought oil???

it's been over $2.XX a qt here for awhile now,

Schucks up there is Checker down here, and if they didn't split everything up O'Reileys bought them out...

gotta love that overseas oil sh!t now,,,eh?

wasn't there a quote out there somewhere, "whoever controls the oil, controls the west"? :crazy:
 
u gotta think oil,gas,oil,gas,oil,gas, if gas is up motor oil wont be too far behind. cept once it goes it up it usually doesnt come back down.
 
yea i know our distributor here keeps it as low as he can for as long as he can, but once it goes up, we usually dont see that price again.
 
I tend to buy cases in bulk. I hae about 10 currently that I have bought when motor oil was under $1. I think shucks would sell this as a loss leader. I would purchase the oil and send in the copoun to the manifacture for the rebate.
 
I always did that with full syn valvoline. Bought all the valvoline from the 3 kragens by me. Sent the rebate in. $ .66 a quart. Cant beat that. Too bad I only have 1.5 cases left then I gotta fork out the money
 
I'm waiting like a vulture as well. When/if it ever gets under $1/qt, I'm buying as many cases as I can find addresses for the rebates.

I'm down to about 4 cases of 10W30 for the truck, and I'm ashamed to admit that I ran out of 5W30 and have had to buy at current prices.

If anyone wants to talk about gouging, lets talk about motor oil cost! Prices for a quart of oil seem to be stable for the past year, while gas alone is down what, 33%, and barrels of crude are down 50%? (and have been off and on for many months now?)

Anyone pay to get their oil changed noticed any price fluctuations in what they charge? Even factoring in a healthy profit margin, 50%+ higher oil prices have got to eat into profit quite heavily.

Post up if you see something go on sale, I don't get any ads out where I live. :(
 
I go to Walmart for all my fluid needs. At most auto parts stores a 5-qt. jug of Castrol GTX 10-40W goes for around $20, but at Walmart they go for $12.
 
I have never had to buy oil for my rig. Had a friend who took welding in high school. Teacher was cleaning the shop and there were 20 cases of Rotello T that he wanted gone. Friend brought them over and gave them to me for free. Sucks I am now down to about 8 quarts.
 
FYI, Schucks has oil on sale (online flyer has it, page 4 IIRC) for $2/qt, limit two cases, right now.

Contemplating whether to stock up now, or hope that the price comes down substantially in a month or two.
 
just imagine...1 day real dino will be higher priced then synthetic...man, we better have a better plan than ''having the last reserves''(supposedly, why gubermint says we have so many capped wells...''strategic reserve's'') when we run out of dino's,.. that will bring war here, just as we're fighting elsewhere for it today...

what really rings my bell is ''why is a gal of milk/an endless renewable resource ..is more expensize than something we shall 1 day run out of/dino..I've heard not a drop of oil from Alaska ever makes it to the lower 48 states..its all exported and that's just the crude...they supposedly have some thing on the order of 48 747 jet engines pushing the gaseous natural gas back into the ground.....why?...gas could be under a buck a gal if Alaska oil came here and we used our own oil/uncapped all our wells in lower 48 states...i don't understand why we import so much dino, when we exporting it also..that seems so f'd in the head

imagine 1 day 1000's of yrs from now, think they may drill for oil over our large cemetaries ....i think every american who has a loan to pay right now...should get to the nitty gritty of their loan...if your payment winds up over sea's..refinance to an american loan...we have 20% of american $ in america....then 20% of population has 80% of that cash..leaving 20% of 20% for 80% of the population of the lower 48 states 2 share!

really makes me want to buy everything i need to run the 'pane mang...probally have a 2 fer,..run gas or pane, but i've read that a pane motor really respondes to higher c.r & being built strictly for it/proPane(i wonder if you still lose the reportedly lose of energy on say a 1/10 of a mile per gal, if engine is hottor/stronger snorting pane do you still lose that........and you can use rect port heads and single plane intake b/c the 'pane is already gasoues and said engine would do good down low but still scream! i think i just talked myself into building my new to me bbc into a propane motor....more research in order here.
 
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Local Napa had two cases of 1qt bottles of gear oil on their closeout rack a couple of years ago, I paid $20 all of it. Don't need to change it as much, I'm suspecting I should be glad?

Also got 5 gallons of lacquer thinner for $10 from the same store. Not sure what I need that much for, but when I figure it out, I won't worry about how much I have to pay to replace it for quite some time. :)
 
I'm close enough on my project now to buy the needed gear oil, enough for 2 axles + 4spd + dblr + 205 @ ~$6.00 qt. :crazy:
 
I always buy 90 wt by the 5 gallon bucket. A lot cheaper that way & when you have as many vehicles as I do & brake stuff as often as I do, it don't last long.
 
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